Was R. C. Flournoy a relative of the T. B. Flournoy who was authorized to raise the 1st Arkansas. After Fagan was elected to comand the 1st Arkansas, I think T. B. Flournoy went back to Desha county, because his name appears again in connection with the Desha County Militia Battalion:

"A copy of a letter dated Laconia, (AR) Nov 28, 1861, attached to the roll is addressed to Gov. H.M. Rector, Commander in Chief, Arkansas Militia, b T. C. Fluornoy, Col. C.D.C.M. and it shows that the Court of Desha County, Ark in accordance with an ordinance of the State Convention passed in June 1861, organized the militia of the county according to the following plan: The county was divided into military districts (believed to be 13) and a company ordered to be organized in each district. This was done in July 1861 and all the officers of the battalion were commissioned from the County Court. If the emergency arises, which may require the services of the Desha County Battalion to the field, a call will be promptly responded to."

Were they perhaps father and son?