Dear Mr. Byrd,
The best source of records on the quick on the role of the Provost
Marshall for West Tennessee would be in the _Official Records_. As to the
availability of records, your best bet on the Federal level would be the
National Archives as the State Archives would have scanty records from the
war years. As to the question of whether or not it was normal for someone
form the 8th Arkansas to be paroled in the District of West Tennessee,
the boundaries of the military district shifted during the war and Memphis
was a central location for the imprisonment and transfer of Confederate
POWs both north to prison and south to parole.
N. K. Moran
University of Memphis