Starting work on Franklin County, Arkansas men who served in the Civil War. Just completed this fellow who seems integral to this old thread.

CRABTREE, JOHN WESLEY: C.S. Company B, 36th Arkansas Infantry Regiment 1Lt/1Lt. Enlisted 17 Jun 1862 at Springfield, Conway, Arkansas as 1st Lieutenant. Age at enlistment: 32. Acting Captain Sep 1862. Granted 30-day leave of absence 4 Apr 1863. Detailed on recruiting service and to return deserters from 15 Aug 1863. Attached to Coleman’s Missouri Cavalry Regiment. Appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the 46th Arkansas Mounted Infantry about Jun 1864. Captured 14 Dec 1864 in Woodruff Co., Arkansas. Forwarded to Brownsville, Texas. Confined at New Orleans, Louisiana 20 Dec 1864. Took Oath of Allegiance and released 7 May 1865. Born 20 Feb 1827 in Weakley Co., Tennessee. Married (1) Sarah Malissa Stramlet 15 Nov 1850. Age listed as 30 on 1860 Franklin Co., Arkansas Census. Age listed as 41 on 1870 White Co., Arkansas Census. Married (2) Amanda Clementine Barger 12 Feb 1867 in White Co., Arkansas. Died 14 Feb 1876 at Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas. Buried in Bethesda Cemetery, Rose Bud, White, Arkansas. Brother of Jonathan L. Crabtree and William Anderson Crabtree. Brother-in-law of William H. Barger. (*WHC)