Mr. Rushing,

Thank you for your response and your additional information. I noted Dockery at Mount Elba from Price's report. Thank you for the correction. Would the information about prisoner processing be with the state archives in Little Rock or otherwise accessible through Fold3?

As to Fagan, I got that from Dr. Christ's collection of essays on Poison Springs, All Cut to Pieces and Gone to Hell, page 112, in Gregory Urwin's essay on Poison Spring and Jenkins' Ferry. Mr. Urwin's citation gives the O.R. Series 1, Vol. 34, part 1, 790, 819, 825, 829.

Mr. Urwin notes correctly, as I examined these pages of the O.R., that Fagan for unknown reasons did not volunteer to go to Poison Spring and kept Dockery's mounted men with him, sending only Crawford's and Cabell's brigades under Cabell's command. I suspect that Fagan did not want to serve under Marmaduke, who was a prickly personality himself with both his commanding officers (Holmes, Price, Lucius Walker) and subordinates (Archibald Dobbins). I don't have any evidence for this supposition though. That is why I worded that Fagan declined to go in my notes.

Cordially and gratefully,
Chase A. Newman