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Re: 9th Regiment - Nichols Brothers

The "9th Arkansas Regiment" referred to is actually McCarver's 14th Arkansas Regiment. When McCarver's regiment was organizing at Pocahontas, Arkansas, the post commander, Col. Solon Borland, assigned the designation 9th Arkansas Regiment. When the War Department received the muster-in rolls, it was noted that there was already a 9th Arkansas Regiment in service. So McCarver's outfit was designated as the 14th Arkansas Regiment, despite the fact that there was already a 14th Arkansas Regiment in service. There was also confusion with Borland's own regimental designation. The joy of researching Arkansas Confederate regiments.

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Adjutant and Inspector-General’s Office,
Richmond, December 30, 1861.

Col. Solon Borland, Commanding, &c., Pocahontas, Ark.

Colonel—Yours of December 10, inclosing muster-rolls of your regiment, and also the rolls of the Ninth Arkansas Regiment, Colonel McCarver, has been received. I am directed by the Secretary of War to inform you that your regiment is known to the Department as the Third Arkansas Cavalry instead of the First. Does Col. J. S. McCarver’s command consist of only five companies, or a full regiment? If less than a regiment, it will be known as the Eighth Battalion; if ten companies, the Fourteenth Regiment Arkansas Volunteers. Please inform the Department at your earliest convenience the exact state and condition of his command. Maj. F. W. Desha’s command will be known as the Seventh Battalion Arkansas Volunteers.

Very respectfully, &c.,
V. D. GRONER,
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

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