Sometimes Arkansas soldiers have little information, perhaps this entry might help someone down the road. His CMSR's have but two pages and stated he was a resident of Carroll County, Arkansas.

Isaac B. Reid, a rebel prisoner: age 27: was admitted April 12, 1865. He had always been in good health but for an occasional fit of ague and an attack of varioloid, the latter having occurred subsequently to his capture. A swelling, mistaken for mumps, began April 4 and increased for a week, during which time he became very weak, as he was unable to eat anything. At length an erysipelatous blush appeared on the surface, when the swelling became reduced in size. Castor oil and turpentine emulsion were prescribed for internal use and resin-cerate with turpentine as a local application. His tongue was dry, brown and cracked on the 16th, on which day a pint of ale was prescribed for daily use. On the 18th milk-punch was substituted. The tongue at this time continued dry and brown and was protruded with difficulty: the inflammation had moved from the right to the left side of the face: desquamation was in progress on the right side; pulse rapid but soft: appetite poor: two or three evacuations from the bowels daily. The erysipelas did not entirely subside until the 28th, when the tongue became clean and moist and the appetite, strength and pulse improved, but some injection of the conjunctive remained and there was complaint of pain in the ear. The internal use of turpentine, which was somewhat experimental, seemed neither to aggravate nor alleviate the symptoms or to affect the condition of the tongue. He was returned to barracks May 8. Rock Island Prison.