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Cook's Battalion

I am working on identifying which cavalry units were dismounted after Price's 1864 Missouri campaign.

In the process, I came across a battalion that I need help in identifying, and that is Cook's Arkansas Cavalry Battalion.

The mystery started with a passage from the Official Records in Vol 48, part 1 as follows:

3/26/65 Churchill’s Div, Brig Gen McNair, cdg, to Col J. C. Wright, Cdg Detachment of Dismtd Cav:, directs that you continue your march with the dismounted Cav under your command until you arrive at the east bank of Red River, where you will remain until the morning following your arrival, when boats will be in readiness to cross your command. Gen McNair desires to know if Cook’s entire Bn has been dismounted or whether the men under your command are detached bodies of the troops from the different commands of Cabell’s Bgde.

Subsequently I found the following in the Official Records regarding a Cook's Company or Battalion which may or may not e the same unit:

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A V Cook’s Cav-see Ark troops [see next]

8/15/64 Little Rock, Ark-Record of military operations in the Dept of Ark for the month of July, 1864
14th, a Bn of the 4th Ark Cav returned from scout through Saline, Hot Springs, & Montgomery Counties. Fought with small bands of the enemy daily until arriving at Farr’s Mill-Capt Green, with twenty-five men of this Bn, engaged Cook’s & Crawford’s Co’s, numbering about 100 men, drove them & killed 4 & wounded 6 of the enemy, without a single accident happening to his men.

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8/5/64 S O #57 Churchill’s division, Camp Yell- III 1st Lt A. C. Sharp, one sergeant, & ten men are temporarily detached from Capt Cook’s Co Cav for courier duty at these Hqs. IV. Capt Cook, cdg Co Cav, will report forthwith with his entire command to Brig-Gen Hawthorn, at Monticello. V. 1st Lt A. C. Sharp, Gen Churchill’s escort, is here by ordered to proceed to Hot Springs County as bearer of instructions to Capt A. V. Cook, cdg scouts in said County, which being accomplished he will report back to these Hqs for duty.

Haven't been able to turn up anything atFold3. Anyone have any clues about this Battalion?

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