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Calvin Preston Thomas has two cards on file. His name appears on a list of Field and Staff Officers [ Forage Master ] of the 45th Regiment Arkansas Militia from Searcy County Ark. Ordered into service Nov. 1861 by Col Sam Leslie to supress a secret organizaton opposed to the war.

1840-1862 Enlisted on 20 Nov 1861. Discharged 22 Dec 1861. Later joined Company F, 27th Arkansas Infantry Regiment. Died of disease in Pocahontas, Arkansas on 8 Oct.

1815-1872 Enlisted on 20 Nov 1861. Discharged 22 Dec 1861.

James was 20 years old when conscripted into Co D 45th Arkansas Militia on 25 Nov. 1861.

E.T. Fallen / E.T. Fallin (Edward Townes Fallin)
was previously in the 32nd Infantry Regiment (mounted and dismounted at different times).

Summer of 1864 -- Organized as Mounted Rifles Unit with Colonel Milton D Baber as the 45th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Mounted). Assigned to Dandridge McCrae's Brigade.
Sept & Oct 1864 -Participated in General Price's Missouri raid.
11 May 1865 -- Surrendered with Brig-Gen Meriwether Jefferson Thompson (M Jeff Thompson) (Swamp Fox of the Confederacy) near Chalk Bluff, Arkansas (Clay County, Arkansas).
5 JUN 1865 - Paroled at Jacksonport, Arkansas (Jackson County)
He was 22 yrs old when paroled and was born in Tennessee.
By Dec of 1866 he married Julie Louise Simmons in Augusta, Woodruff County, Arkansas. Edward Townes Fallin was buried at the Augusta Memorial Cemetary in 1908. Julie had died in 1906.