Yes he was a confederate bushwhacker, so my thinking that the Provost Marshal at Batesville, AR associated with the 1st Nebraska Volunteer Cavalry would have made a report is a pipe dream.
We never would have known about his execution and William Monks murdering his brother Benjamin F Hawkins in 1864, unless Monks bragged about doing the deeds in his book "A History of Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas.
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Richard