Jim, Gholson's career with the 43rd (and the 14th) has been passed over a lot by previous historians.

What you say about the elections for the 43rd is new to me. Can you give me a source? And do you have the date when he was commissioned captain of company L?

Evidently Gholsun served as captain and was wounded at Corinth. According to a newspaper account, he was wounded in the left leg by fragments of a bullet that had been deflected by his upraised sword. His resignation letter (in his CSR) states that he's resigning on a surgeon's certificate, that his thigh wound renders him unfit for further field duty. Doubtless dissatisfaction with promotion had something to do with it.

Gholson had intended to raise his own battalion, but only succeeded in raising "Gholson's Rebels" that became part of the 43rd.