Thanks for your input George. I did make an error in the first post it should have read Captain Van Thomas and not Lieutenant.

Records indicate that fourteen soldiers of the 1st Battalion Louisiana Cavalry State Guards were captured. As you say it's a tough call as to why they were misidentified. Defiant or poor questioning by the Provost Marshal, who knows although I lend toward the former. Their unit only had three companies. They appear to have been surprised by a Union raiding party in Catahoula Parish near Trinity which is somewhat near Natchez, Mississippi.

It's interesting how long they appear to have been misidentified. However, when the tombstones were made at Camp Chase at the Blue Ridge Marble Company in Nelson, Georgia in 1906-07 the government got it correct insofar as Edwin R. Boon's tombstone. There are many tombstones at Chase that are incorrect and how the government got this correct is also a mystery.