Linda, he is carried on the rolls of the 2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles as R. N. Ross.

He enlisted in Co. C, 2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles, at Camp Flat Creek, Missouri, on November 1, 1861, for twelve months; age 24, born in Tennessee. The company was comprised mostly of Prairie County men. Pvt. Ross was reported present for duty on the muster rolls for December 31, 1861, and February 28, 1862; he was wounded in action at Pea Ridge, Arkansas, on March 7, 1862; and was discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability on June 24, 1862 (his arm had been broken by a gunshot wound at Pea Ridge, and he was judged to be disabled).