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Re: Idenity of the 48th Arkansas

Carlton's Regiment has always been a leading candidate for this designation in my mind, but all of the known members seem to be connected to Coleman's/Crabtree's unit. These is some evidence that Coleman formed another command in Missouri, separate from Crabtree's. In a Confederate Veteran article Coleman describes going in to Missouri ahead of Price to assemble another unit, and there at times in the reports from the raid that Coleman is described as having a unit in Shelby's Divsion, while at others, the 46th with Crabtee, appears to be in McCray's brigade of Fagan's Division. It appears to me that all of the know members are actually associated with Crabtee.

Early in 1864 Colonel Coleman was relieved of the arrest under wh8ich he had been laboring by Gen E. Kirby Smith and was assigned to duty with General Shelby. Under Kirby Smith’s direction Colonel Coleman organized the 46th Arkansas Mounted Infantry and re-organized the old 4th Missouri Cavalry, and was in the battle near Lone Oak, Ark., in which his regiment captured Mitchell’s Volunteer Regiment. Two days after this in a battle at Hazen, Ark, his regiment captured two hundred head of cavalry horses, and rand them through the Federal lines of two regiments of infantry and cavalry without the loss of a man. General Shelby then sent the Colonel to Missouri to organize more troops, which he did, and reported to General Price. Colonel Coleman and his command were in the battles of Iron Mountain, Potosi, Franklin, Jefferson City, and Glasgow – all in Missouri.

At Glasgow Colonel Coleman with his command captured the fort, which was well manned, before the other Confederate troops arrived. Then followed the battles of Independence, Wesport, Merridazine, and Newtonia, all in Missouri, in which Colonel Coleman bore a conspicuous part.

In 1865 he and his command still remained in Missouri and Arkansas, being part of Shelby’s division of Price’s Army, until the surrender came. Colonel Coleman boasts that he never did surrender, and he is proud of his record as a Confederate Soldier.

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