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Re: For Ken Legendre. 1st Ark Ensign

Here's what I've pulled from his CSR using a new format

Erasmus A. Brown
27 year old Carpenter
Private, Capt. Crenshaw’s Company, (Camden Knights) 1st Regiment (Fagan’s) Arkansas Infantry*
Enlisted May 8, 1861 at Camden
Carried colors at Corinth after Ensign [sic] was killed
Promoted 3rd/4th Sergeant, no dates
Slightly wounded in breast at Murfreesboro, Tenn., December 31, 1862
Color Sergeant, recommended as Ensign, “He is a good and gallant soldier” April 8, 1864
Promoted 1st Lieutenant & Ensign August 21,1864
Captured near Jonesboro, Ga. September 1, 1864
Exchanged September 19/22
Captured at Pulaski, Tenn. December 25, 1864
Transferred from Camp Chase, Ohio to Point Lookout, Md. for exchange March 18, 1865
Patient at. Way Hospital No. 2, Greensboro, N. C. April 7, 1865
Born in Columbus, Miss., resident of Quachita Co., Ark.

* This company subsequently became Company C, 1st Regiment (Colquitt’s) Arkansas Infantry

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