M. A. Dry, Private, Company L, Newton’s Regiment, Arkansas Cavalry,* enlisted December 26, 1862 in Jackson County[?] by Capt. Johnson, recorded absent, sick at the July/August, 1863 muster, no further records

* This regiment was designated at various times as Newton’s Regiment Arkansas Cavalry, Morgan’s Regiment Arkansas Cavalry, and 2nd Regiment Arkansas Cavalry; and at the same time it was known as 5th Regiment Arkansas Cavalry and 8th Regiment Arkansas Cavalry

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M. A. Dry, 1st Sergeant, Company D, 45th Regiment Arkansas Cavalry, with the Army of Northern Sub-District of Arkansas surrendered on May 11, 1865 by BGen. M. Jeff Thompson and paroled at Jacksonport, Ark. June 5, 1865, description, enlisted in Jackson County, Ark., age 32, black eyes, black hair, dark complexion, 5’ 8”, born in N. C., no other records

M317: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Arkansas

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Michael Alfred Dry

Residence was not listed;
Enlisted as a 1st Sergeant (date unknown).
He also had service in:
"D" Co. AR 45th Mounted Infantry
Other Information:
born in 1829 in Mount Vernon, NC
died in 1910 in Colorado, TX
After the War he lived in Sipe Springs, TX & Colorado, TX

Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:
- Index to Compiled Confederate Military Service Records
- Confederate Veteran Magazine
- Photo from Confederate Veteran Magazine

45th AR Infantry Organized: on 8/1/64 Mustered Out: 5/11/65

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Michael Alfred Dry.

Michale A. Dry was born at Mount Vernon, N. C., near Salisbury in June, 1829; died at Colorado,Tex., in May, 1910.

Michael Dry early became a man of promise in his community. He was mad a Mason in 1854, and in 1856 was one of the delegates who helped to pass the free school laws for North Carolina. In 1860 he started overland with a party of friends to Arkansas. In Arkansas he taught a summer school. In the fall of that year he enlisted in the Confederate army as a member of Company D, 45th Arkansas Scouting Cavalry (Colonel Neblit commanding), Army of Tennessee, Western Army under General Price, and also under Forrest and Cabell. He participated in the different battles and skirmishes of his command, through which he passed without a wound, and surrendered under Price. He taught school and was a merchant after the war. In 1873 he removed to Texas and located at Sipe Springs. In 195 he went with his wife and two daughters to Colorado, Tex., where his wife died in1896. He was a member of Albert Sidney Johnston Camp, U. C. V. at that place.
Confederate Veteran, Vol. XVIII, 1910, p. 480