Yes, place the stone, and put the one that you feel most comfortable placing.
As far as being a deserter, they kept terrible records. My own great grandfather fought
all over the South as a Confederate. He is also listed as a deserter and was probably at home
healing or in a field hospital some place when the roll was called. He was shot at
Shiloh and and the family thinks his second wound came at Atlanta. The poor man is even listed
as killed at Atlanta in one Tennessee site and they would not change that for nothing, but
since I got his pug nose, thick hair, etc., I know that man did not die then, but of old age.
A man could have even been left behind and then not able to catch up with his group and
took up with another like group and fought with them.
So place the marker and be glad you can. As far as him being a Confederate and then
turning around and being a Union man, he was a honorable person who kept his word.
Linda T. Acrey
Lonoke, Arkansas
gg grandchild of Wm. Robinson Vaughn/Vaughan formerly of
North Carolina, Mississippi and finally Arkansas