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T W MARLAR (VETERAN CSA)

Marlar Cemetery
Crawford County,
Arkansas

CAPTAIN CSA
Gordon's Regiment Arkansas Cavalry
Civil War Confederate
November 30, 1835 - October 23, 1916

He was made Captain of a group of men from Franklin and Crawford county, which he had organized. This information from the book "History In Headstones" written by Doris Stevenson West and Susan Stevenson Swinburn and published by The Press-Argus, Van Buren, Arkansas in 1970.

Photo provided by Volunteer Marilyn James

*CC NOTE: The following information was obtained from: http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.cfm

T.W. Marlar (First_Last)
Regiment Name Gordon's Reg't, Arkansas Cavalry
Side Confederate
Company A
Soldier's Rank_In Private
Soldier's Rank_Out Private
Film Number M376 roll 15

CONFEDERATE ARKANSAS TROOPS

Gordon's Regiment, Arkansas Cavalry

Gordon's Cavalry Regiment [also called 4th Regiment] successor to C. A. Carroll's Cavalry Regiment, was organized in September, 1863. It served in General Cabell's Brigade, Trans-Mississippi Department, and took an active part in the conflicts at Poison Spring and Marks' Mills where twenty-one percent of the 117 engaged were disabled. Later it participated in Price's Missouri Expedition and reported 106 casualties. During the spring of 1865 it disbanded. The field officers were Colonel Anderson Gordon, and Majors J. A. Arrington and William H. Fayth.

Contributed on 6/27/09 by birdeyes
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Submitted: 6/27/09 • Approved: 4/9/11 • Last Updated: 8/5/12 • R208812-G208812-S3

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