Mark -- There is a service record for one F. M. Hawkins (Francis Marion Hawkins), who enlisted as a private in Co. E, 24th Arkansas Regiment Infantry, at Monticello, Arkansas, on June 16, 1862, by Lieut. Col. T. M. Whittington, for three years or the war. He was marked as present for duty until the December 31, 1862, muster roll, when he was reported absent sick in hospital at Arkansas Post. He was listed on a roll of prisoners captured at Arkansas Post, on January 11, 1863. His prisoner of war record is incomplete. If his prison experience mirrors those of other Arkansas Post prisoners, he was sent to Gratiot Street Prison, St. Louis, Missouri, on January 22, 1863, and was transferred to Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois, on February 8, 1863. However, he appears only on a roll of prisoners of war paroled at Camp Douglas, Illinois, on April 3, 1863, and delivered at City Point, Virginia, on April 10, 1863, for exchange; but that roll bears the remarks, "absent". At any rate, Hawkins, along with other members of his company was transferred to Co. B, Hardy’s Regiment Arkansas Infantry, about August 1, 1863, where he was appointed first sergeant, and later elected senior second lieutenant on January 3, 1864. His record of promotion states that he was age 28, born in Alabama [he was actually born in Tennessee]; the last record of him is on the February 29, 1864, muster roll, where he was reported present for duty. According to his biographical sketch in Goodspeed's History of Phillips County [1890] he was subsequently promoted to captain, and surrendered at Shreveport, Louisiana, at the end of the war.