The National Park Service listed him as 1st Lieutenant Charles A. Allen with the 4th Georgia Cavalry aka Clinch's. While there were two such organizations known as the 4th Georgia Cavalry his name can only be found at times with Clinch's. And his tombstone #1877 at the Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery listed his information as Lieutenant C. A. Allen 4th Georgia Cavalry. Looking at his Confederate Compiled Military Service Records he is listed as Charles A. Allen 1st Lieutenant no company 4th (Clinch's) Georgia Cavalry on his cover page and on pages 2 and 3 as a 1st Lieutenant with the 4th Georgia Cavalry and on pages 7,8,9,10,11, and 12 it listed him as a 1st Lieutenant and as a enrolling officer with no mention of the 4th Georgia Cavalry or Clinch's 4th Georgia Cavalry.

C. A. Allen's name is virtually affiliated with Walker County, Georgia on historical documents including the 1860 United States census which listed him as living in Cane Creek, in Walker County, Georgia with what appears to be his wife Rebecca A. Allen and listed his occupation as a farmer and born about 1829.

His Confederate Compiled Military Service Records are nothing but Federal POW records with the exception of pages 4,5, and 6 and those pages are those of conversations of turn of the century archivists wondering who he was since he had no Confederate enlistment papers.

Clinch's 4th Georgia Cavalry was formed in Camden County, Georgia in the extreme southeastern section of the state while Walker County is at the extreme northwestern part of the state more than 400 miles distant.

No where in the rosters in Clinch's 4th Georgia Cavalry does it show a Lieutenant C.A. Allen or Charles A. Allen. Looking at the unit history of Clinch's 4th Georgia Cavalry they have a complete list of officers and his name does not appear.

The turn of the century archivists suggested his name appeared under Confederate miscellaneous under C.A. Allen. And indeed it does as both in two separate files Charles A. Allen and C.A. Allen. Both reported him as a private and as a sub-enrollment officer for Walker County, Georgia. From what I've been able to gather many of the sub-enrollment officers in Georgia were either non-commissioned officers or privates. There was never a mention of him with the 4th Georgia Cavalry or Clinch's 4th Georgia Cavalry while serving as a sub-enrollment officer. He was also listed as a private and a sub-enrollment officer at Camp Randolph in Decatur, Georgia at Camp of Instruction #2. He was shown as private clear up until April of 1864.

Federal POW records reported him taken prisoner on March 29, 1864 at Walker County, Georgia and taken to Nashville, Tennessee where he was listed as a 1st Lieutenant and as an enrolling officer. When a Confederate soldier was taken prisoner some of the information came from the soldier himself since the Union Army did not usually have access to his records unless the records had been captured. Somewhere between his capture in Walker County, Georgia and Nashville, Tennessee he went from Private Charles A. Allen, a Walker County sub-enrollment officer and 1st Lieutenant Charles A. Allen an enrollment officer with Clinch's 4th Georgia Cavalry. He would stay in the former status when transferred to Louisville, Kentucky and also at Camp Chase. He arrived at Camp Chase on April 4, 1864 as 1st Lieutenant Allen of the 4th Georgia Cavalry and died on April 16, 1865 of scorbutus which is a Latin word for scurvy.