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* [[3rd Cavalry Regiment, Arkansas State Troops]] |
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In the Spring of 1862, the state again attemped to gather it's own force of |
In the Spring of 1862, the state again attemped to gather it's own force of State Troops. General Van Dorn had been ordered to take his Army of the West, easto of the Mississippi River in order to support Confederat efforts in western Tennessee that would ultimately lead to the Battle of Shiloh and the Corinth Campaign. The State Military Board authorized the establishment of several new regiments for the defense of the State, and ordered the conscription of the requisite number of men from the militia to fill the ranks. The new regiments were organized fairly quickly, and were mustered into service in June, July and August, 1862. They were mustered into service as the 1st (Rector), 2nd (Brooks) and 3rd (Peel) Regiments, Northwest Division, District of Arkansas. Colonel Peel was eventually superseded by Charles W. Adams, resulting in what is known as [[Adam's 3rd Arkansas Infantry]], which, was disbanded after the Battle of Prairie Grove. The 1st and 2nd Regiments, Northwest Division, finally assumed their authorized designations of 35th (Rector) and 34th (Brooks) Arkansas Regiments, respectively. <ref name="history-sites.com">Howerton, Bryan, "The 3rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment(s)", Arkansas in the Civil War Message Board, Posted, 6 February 2007, 5:21 pm , Accessed 3 August 2011, http://history-sites.com/cgi-bin/bbs53x/arcwmb/webbbs_config.pl?noframes;read=14621</ref> |
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Following the fall of Little Rock to Union Forces in September, 1862, the State of Arkansas was again forced to raise regiments of State Troops in order to provide for it's own defense. Governor [[Harris Flanagin]] (who had defeated Governor Rector in his re-election bid of 1862) issued a proclamation on August 10, 1863, just a month before the capitol fell, announcing that he had been authorized to raise new regiments of state troops and that by special agreement these new units could not be transferred out of the state by Confederate authorities.<ref>Reynolds, John H., "Official Orders of Governor Harris Flanagin", by Publications of the Arkansas Historical Association, Volume 2, Arkansas Historical Association, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1908, Page 370, Accessed May 11, 2011, http://books.google.com/books?id=RTw7AAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA406&ots=dFjyDBfTF9&dq=Gordon%20N.%20Peay%20Arkansas&pg=PA370#v=onepage&q=newton&f=false</ref> After the fall of Little Rock, recruiting was far more difficult than it had been in the first years of the war. The constant transfer of Arkansas troops into the eastern theater of the war, across the Mississippi River from their homes, was a major objection by the remaining population of men eligible for military service. With Federal forces now occupying the state capitol, the Confederate state government had no way of enforcing conscription laws in the counties behind the Union lines, except during raids by Generals Price and Shelby in 1864. The remaining Confederate regiments were plagued by desertions.<ref name="THE WAR OF THE REBELLION 1898, Page 901">THE WAR OF THE REBELLION, THE OFFICIAL RECORD OF THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE ARMIES, SERIES I—VOLUME LIU, GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, 1898, Page 901, Accessed May 11, 2011, http://books.google.com/books?id=XpM3AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA901&lpg=PA1019&ots=bt2XZDsv0s&dq=Governor+Flanagin+appointed+Gordon+N.+Peay&output=text#c_top</ref> |
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On September 16, 1863, Governor Fagan issued General Order No. 6 from Arkadelphia, which called in to service the militia regiments of the counties of Clark, Hempstead, Sevier, Pike, Polk, Montgomery, La Fayette, Ouachita, Union, and Columbia in order to resist the Federal army. The Governor's order directed the regiments to march to Arkadelphia at the earliest possible day. Companies were to be mounted and commanders were to compel persons evading the call to come to the rendezvous. The intent was to form companies of twelve-month mounted volunteers.<ref>THE WAR OF THE REBELLION, THE OFFICIAL RECORD OF THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE ARMIES, SERIES I—VOLUME LIU, GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, 1898, Page 889, Accessed May 11, 2011, http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA896&lpg=PA1019&dq=Governor%20Flanagin%20appointed%20Gordon%20N.%20Peay&sig=Ye8GGU9Ry-kuZ9mDZS1sy03FUvE&ei=xEXLTf-WOJSUtwfmz5XjBw&ct=result&id=XpM3AQAAIAAJ&ots=bt2XZDsv0s&output=text</ref> In describing this call in a letter to General Holmes dated October 18, 1863 from Washington, Arkansas, the new Confederate state capitol, Flanagin stated that he issued the order calling out the militia, as an experiment, expecting to get volunteers. The order succeeded so well as to get companies organized in the counties where the call for the militia was enforced which resulted in seven companies being collected under the call.<ref name="THE WAR OF THE REBELLION 1898, Page 901"/> Flanagin also stated that "the troops raised by the State are more than double all the troops raised by volunteering, or by the conscript law, within the past few months".<ref name="THE WAR OF THE REBELLION 1898, Page 901"/> |
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On October 26, 1863 Governor Flanagin directed Adjutant General Peay to: |
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{{quotation|"visit Lewisville, in La Fayette County, and see Captain Ford, who has been raising a company of mounted riflemen under the State. I have been informed that this company has been sworn into the service of the Confederate States. If so, the only thing to be done is to communicate this fact to General Fagan. If the State troops which can be raised in La Fayette County are already raised you are authorized to disband the militia. If convenient, I would like for you to go to Union County. Captain Holloway has been raising a company of mounted riflemen in that county. If his company is organized, you can disband the militia of that county. If the colonel is inefficient, and Captain Holloway has not got his company formed, let him swear his men in and get the militia together, and compel those who are liable to the conscript law to go into the State or C. S. service".<ref>THE WAR OF THE REBELLION, THE OFFICIAL RECORD OF THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE ARMIES, SERIES I—VOLUME LIU, GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, 1898, Page 903, Accessed 11 May2011, http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA903&lpg=PA1019&dq=Governor%20Flanagin%20appointed%20Gordon%20N.%20Peay&id=XpM3AQAAIAAJ&ots=bt2XZDsv0s&output=text</ref>}} |
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These new units of Arkansas State Troops were placed under the overall command of Col. William H. Trader who was detailed to Governor Flanagin by General [[E. Kirby Smith]]. Col. Trader remained in command of the state troops until he resigned in June 1864.<ref>Reynolds, John H., "Official Orders of Governor Harris Flanagin", by Publications of the Arkansas Historical Association, Volume 2, Arkansas Historical Association, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1908, Page 362, Accessed May 11, 2011, http://books.google.com/books?id=RTw7AAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA406&ots=dFjyDBfTF9&dq=Gordon%20N.%20Peay%20Arkansas&pg=PA403#v=onepage&q=Gordon%20N.%20Peay%20Arkansas&f=false</ref> |
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On January 14, 1864, Governor Flanagin, through General Peay, issued General Orders, No. 8. which directed that certian named companies of Arkansas mounted volunteers, which had been called into the service of the State under the proclamation of the August 10, A.D. 1863, compose and be designated as the 1st Battalion, Arkansas State Troops, more often referred to as Pettus's Battalioin Arkansas State Troops. The unit participated in the battle of Marks Mill on April 25, 1864 as a part of Brigadier General [[William L. Cabell]]’s Division. Lt. Col. Pettus was killed during the battle and Capt. P.K. Williamson of Company A commanded the battalion until the unit was increased to a regiment and transferred to Confederate service.<ref name="rootsweb.ancestry.com">Wallis, W.M., "Colonel R.C. Newton’s 10th Arkansas Cavalry", Hope, Arkansas, October 17, 1912, Posted on Rootsweb, and Ancestory.com Community, Accessed May 12, 2011, http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~arcivwar/10arcav.htm</ref> |
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In August 1864 when the term of enlistment for these state troops was about to expire, Adjutant General Peay issued an order which directed that companies be allowed to vote on the subject of being transferred into Confederate service. On September 5, 1864, the State Troop companies, including Pettus Battalion, were formed into one regiment of cavalry to be designated as the 3rd Regiment of Arkansas Cavalry, with Col. Robert C. Newton assigned to the command of the regiment until an election could be held for field officers.<ref>THE WAR OF THE REBELLION, THE OFFICIAL RECORD OF THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE ARMIES, SERIES I—VOLUME LIU, GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, 1898, Page 1019, Accessed May 11, 2011, http://books.google.com/books?id=XpM3AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1019&dq=Robert+C.+Newton+Gordon+Peay+Arkansas+Official+records&hl=en&ei=n17LTbHsEYy2twe1rpH9Bw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false</ref> This unit was mustered into the Confederate Service on the October 31, 1864<ref>Reynolds, John H., "Official Orders of Governor Harris Flanagin", by Publications of the Arkansas Historical Association, Volume 2, Arkansas Historical Association, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1908, Page 421, Accessed May 11, 2011, http://books.google.com/books?id=RTw7AAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA406&ots=dFjyDBfTF9&dq=Gordon%20N.%20Peay%20Arkansas&pg=PA421#v=onepage&q=newton&f=false</ref> as the [[10th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment]], and Col. Newton was elected Regimental Commander.<ref name="rootsweb.ancestry.com"/> |
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==Confederate Forces raised in Arkansas== |
==Confederate Forces raised in Arkansas== |
Revision as of 21:08, 24 August 2011
Arkansas Civil War Confederate Units, a list of units formed from that state for service in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Like most states, Arkansas possessed a prewar Militia organization, which consisted of 71 regiments, organized into eight brigades, and divided into two divisions. In addition to its standard militia regiment or regiments, each count was authorized to created up to four volunteer companies. While none of the prewar militia regiments were enrolled into Confederate service, many of the exising Volunteer Companies were enrolled into new volunteer regiments. Other new Volunteer Companies were raised with no connection to the prewar militia. Immediately following secession, the State Military Board began organizing regiments of State Troops. Many of these regiments were eventually transferred into Confederate Service. Some Volunteer Regiments were organzied under direct authority of the new Confederate Government and were never organized as State Troops. In 1862, the Confederate Congress passed a new conscription law and new companies and regiments were organized almost entirely of conscripted, or drafted men. The secession convention also authorized each county to organize Home Guard Organizations made up of men too young or too old or otherwise exempt from conscription or militia service.
Militia
At the beginning of the war, the Arkansas Militia consisted of 71 Regiments, which were organized into two divisions, each division having four brigades. Each county had at least one regiment, several had more than one regiment within the county.[1] The Arkansas Militia Act allowed each regiment to form up to four volunteer companies.[2] While the regular militia regiments were required to drill three times per year and were required to supply their own weapons, the volunteer companies drilled much more often and were actually supplied with some equipment from the state. A decision was made by the state Arkansas Secession Convention not to activate the militia in mass, but form a series of new State Troop regiments for the new Army of Arkansas.[3] Many of these volunteer militia companies were enrolled in the new volunteer regiments which were formed by the Military Board of Arkansas.[1]
State Troops
The Arkansas Succession Convention decided that rather than activating the existing militia regiments, they would raise new volunteer regiments. The convention was concerned that if the militia was called out and transferred into Confederate Service, they would be subject to being transferred out of the state, leaving the state defenseless. The convention was also concerned with the cost involved in paying for a large standing state force. These new volunteer regiments would be a part of the Provisional Army of Arkansas and would be transitioned into Confederate service as quickly as possible. The Provisional Army of Arkansas was to consist of two divisions, the 1st Division in the western part of the state, and the 2nd Division in the eastern part of the state. The new regiments of State Troops were mustered in to service for 90 days. The regiments in the eastern division were transferred into Confederate Service under the command of Brigadier General Hardee. The regiments in the western division participated in the Battle of Wilson's Creek as a brigade under State Brigadier General N.B. Pearce. Following the battle of Wilson's Creek, the western division was marched back to Arkansas and given the opportunity to vote on whether or not they would be transferred into Confederate Service. The units of the western division voted to disband rather than transfer into Confederate service. The Secession Convention appointed a new state military board to organize the new regiments and coordinate their transition into Confederate service.
- 1st Regiment, Arkansas State Troops, later redesignated as the 15th (Josey's) Arkansas Volunteer Infantry regiment.
- 3rd Regiment, Arkansas State Troops also known as "Gratiot's Regiment"[4]
- 4th Regiment, Arkansas State Troops Also known as "Walker's Regiment"
- 5th Regiment, Arkansas State Troops, Also known as "Dockery's Regiment"
- 6th Regiment, Arkansas State Troops, became the 6th Arkansas Volunteer Infantry
- 7th Regiment, Arkansas State Troops, became the 7th Arkansas Volunteer Infantry
- 1st Cavalry Regiment, Arkansas State Troops
- 3rd Cavalry Regiment, Arkansas State Troops
In the Spring of 1862, the state again attemped to gather it's own force of State Troops. General Van Dorn had been ordered to take his Army of the West, easto of the Mississippi River in order to support Confederat efforts in western Tennessee that would ultimately lead to the Battle of Shiloh and the Corinth Campaign. The State Military Board authorized the establishment of several new regiments for the defense of the State, and ordered the conscription of the requisite number of men from the militia to fill the ranks. The new regiments were organized fairly quickly, and were mustered into service in June, July and August, 1862. They were mustered into service as the 1st (Rector), 2nd (Brooks) and 3rd (Peel) Regiments, Northwest Division, District of Arkansas. Colonel Peel was eventually superseded by Charles W. Adams, resulting in what is known as Adam's 3rd Arkansas Infantry, which, was disbanded after the Battle of Prairie Grove. The 1st and 2nd Regiments, Northwest Division, finally assumed their authorized designations of 35th (Rector) and 34th (Brooks) Arkansas Regiments, respectively. [5]
Following the fall of Little Rock to Union Forces in September, 1862, the State of Arkansas was again forced to raise regiments of State Troops in order to provide for it's own defense. Governor Harris Flanagin (who had defeated Governor Rector in his re-election bid of 1862) issued a proclamation on August 10, 1863, just a month before the capitol fell, announcing that he had been authorized to raise new regiments of state troops and that by special agreement these new units could not be transferred out of the state by Confederate authorities.[6] After the fall of Little Rock, recruiting was far more difficult than it had been in the first years of the war. The constant transfer of Arkansas troops into the eastern theater of the war, across the Mississippi River from their homes, was a major objection by the remaining population of men eligible for military service. With Federal forces now occupying the state capitol, the Confederate state government had no way of enforcing conscription laws in the counties behind the Union lines, except during raids by Generals Price and Shelby in 1864. The remaining Confederate regiments were plagued by desertions.[7]
On September 16, 1863, Governor Fagan issued General Order No. 6 from Arkadelphia, which called in to service the militia regiments of the counties of Clark, Hempstead, Sevier, Pike, Polk, Montgomery, La Fayette, Ouachita, Union, and Columbia in order to resist the Federal army. The Governor's order directed the regiments to march to Arkadelphia at the earliest possible day. Companies were to be mounted and commanders were to compel persons evading the call to come to the rendezvous. The intent was to form companies of twelve-month mounted volunteers.[8] In describing this call in a letter to General Holmes dated October 18, 1863 from Washington, Arkansas, the new Confederate state capitol, Flanagin stated that he issued the order calling out the militia, as an experiment, expecting to get volunteers. The order succeeded so well as to get companies organized in the counties where the call for the militia was enforced which resulted in seven companies being collected under the call.[7] Flanagin also stated that "the troops raised by the State are more than double all the troops raised by volunteering, or by the conscript law, within the past few months".[7]
On October 26, 1863 Governor Flanagin directed Adjutant General Peay to:
"visit Lewisville, in La Fayette County, and see Captain Ford, who has been raising a company of mounted riflemen under the State. I have been informed that this company has been sworn into the service of the Confederate States. If so, the only thing to be done is to communicate this fact to General Fagan. If the State troops which can be raised in La Fayette County are already raised you are authorized to disband the militia. If convenient, I would like for you to go to Union County. Captain Holloway has been raising a company of mounted riflemen in that county. If his company is organized, you can disband the militia of that county. If the colonel is inefficient, and Captain Holloway has not got his company formed, let him swear his men in and get the militia together, and compel those who are liable to the conscript law to go into the State or C. S. service".[9]
These new units of Arkansas State Troops were placed under the overall command of Col. William H. Trader who was detailed to Governor Flanagin by General E. Kirby Smith. Col. Trader remained in command of the state troops until he resigned in June 1864.[10]
On January 14, 1864, Governor Flanagin, through General Peay, issued General Orders, No. 8. which directed that certian named companies of Arkansas mounted volunteers, which had been called into the service of the State under the proclamation of the August 10, A.D. 1863, compose and be designated as the 1st Battalion, Arkansas State Troops, more often referred to as Pettus's Battalioin Arkansas State Troops. The unit participated in the battle of Marks Mill on April 25, 1864 as a part of Brigadier General William L. Cabell’s Division. Lt. Col. Pettus was killed during the battle and Capt. P.K. Williamson of Company A commanded the battalion until the unit was increased to a regiment and transferred to Confederate service.[11]
In August 1864 when the term of enlistment for these state troops was about to expire, Adjutant General Peay issued an order which directed that companies be allowed to vote on the subject of being transferred into Confederate service. On September 5, 1864, the State Troop companies, including Pettus Battalion, were formed into one regiment of cavalry to be designated as the 3rd Regiment of Arkansas Cavalry, with Col. Robert C. Newton assigned to the command of the regiment until an election could be held for field officers.[12] This unit was mustered into the Confederate Service on the October 31, 1864[13] as the 10th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment, and Col. Newton was elected Regimental Commander.[11]
Confederate Forces raised in Arkansas
Infantry
Tracking Arkansas Confederate Infantry Regiments can be extremely complicated due to the fact that numerical designations were often issued to multiple units. Some of these duplications were due to the competing authorities attempting to organize forces in the state. Other dublications were due to poor and or delayed communications between the various mustering agents, the Arkansas State Military Board, which was in charge of organizing forces with in the state, and the Confederate War Department in Richmond. Additional duplications occurred when parts of various regiments were captured, only to be parolled, exchanged and returned to active status at some later point. Finally, many duplicataions occurred after effective communications had been severed between Richmond and the Department of the Trans-Mississippi. General Sterling Price's staff made an attempt to renumber Confederate Regiments in the Trans-Mississipp, resulting in many regiments serving west of the Mississippi having duplicate designations with units serving east of the Mississippi River.
Competing Authorities
An example of the confusion caused by the competing authorities organizing forces is the numbers of the regiment organized by Colonel, later Major General Patrick Cleburne. Cleburne's regiment received the designation of 1st Arkansas when it was mustered into state service at Mound City on May 14, 1861. Cleburne's regiment was accepted into Confederate service by General Hardeee on July 23, 1861, at Pitman's Ferry, AR as the 1st Arkansas Volunteer Infantry. However Confederate authorities had authorized Colonel T. B. Flournoy to raise a regiment of Arkansas Volunteers in April 1861, before the state had actually seceded. The regiment raised by Flournoy, which elected James F. Fagan as it's orgional Colonel, was never mustered in to State Service, so it never received a state designation. When Cleburne's regiments documents reached the war department, the duplication was discovered and Cleburen's regiment was re-designated as the 15th Arkansas. Unfortunately there would be two other regiments which were also numbered the 15th Arkansas, one commanded by Colonel Dandrige McRea and another commanded by Colonel James Gee.[14]
Additionally, at various times during the war, the State Military Board attempted to organized State Troop organizations, which were not intended to be transferred to Confederate Service. Most of these regiments were eventually transferred into Confederate service but they existed, often with duplicated state number designations for some period of time as state organizations. An example of this confusion involves the 3rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment and Adams Arkanssas Infantry Regiment. After the battle of Pea Ridge, General Van Dorn took most of the organized regiments in the state, and all militiary supplies that he could lay hand on and moved them across the Mississippi River to Cornth Mississippi, leaving the state basically defenseless. the State Military Board authorized the establishment of several new regiments for the defense of the State, and ordered the conscription of the requisite number of men from the militia to fill the ranks. The new regiments were organized fairly quickly, and were mustered into service in June, July and August, 1862. Among the newly-organized regiments authorized by the State Military Board were the 34th (Col. William H. Brooks), 35th (Col. Frank A. Rector) and 36th (Col. Samuel W. Peel). True to form, these designations were ignored, and they were mustered into service as the 1st (Rector), 2nd (Brooks) and 3rd (Peel) Regiments, Northwest Division, District of Arkansas. Colonel Peel was eventually superseded by Charles W. Adams, resulting in what is known as Adam's 3rd Arkansas Infantry, which, was disbanded after the Battle of Prairie Grove. The 1st and 2nd Regiments, Northwest Division, finally assumed their authorized designations of 35th and 34th Arkansas Regiments, respectively. To further confuse matters for when the United States War Department clerks who put together the Compiled Service Records, decades after the war, ran across scattered records of certain men of the 3rd Arkansas who had been paroled at Springfield, Missouri, after the battle of Prairie Grove, they compiled them with the records of Colonel Van H. Manning's 3rd Arkansas Volunteer Infantry Regiment. In fact, these men belonged to Adams's so-called 3rd Arkansas.[5]
Confusing Communications
Communications with the Confederate War Department also led to much confusion. When a new regiment was organized, state officials issued the next available number under its numbering schemen. Before a new unit obtained it's final or Confederate designation, the regimental muster rolls and election returns had to be forwarded to the Confederate War Department which would assign the next available number, according to its numbering scheme. Given the great distance involved, even before Union forces established effective control of the Mississippi River, many duplications occurred. When a duplication was identified, the Confederate War Department would attempt to renumber a regiment to relieve the confusion, but often only confused the issue further. A good example of this type of duplication is the regiment organized by Dadridge McRea. McRea's unit was orgionally designated as the 3rd Arkansas Infantry Battalion, because it lacked the required number of companies to organize as a full regiment. By the time sufficinet companies were added to bring the unit up to regimental strength, the unit was disgnated as the 21st Arkansas Infantry Regiment. However, Confederate authorities realized that they had also accepted Colonel Jordan E. Cravens regiment as the 21st Arkansas. To rectify the confusion, the Confederate War Department redisgnated McRea's Regiment as the 15th Arkansas Infantry. Almost immediately, the Confederate War Department realized that it had just awarded this designation to Cleburnes former 1st Arkansas, so McRea's Regiment was redisgnated as the 15th (Northwest) Arkansas Infantry Regiment.[15]
Designations affected by surrender, parole and exchange
The designations of some units became conflicted as parts of units were captured and later paroled, exchanged, and re-entered active service. An example of this is Dawson's 19th Arkansas Infantry. The regiment completed its organization at Nashville, Arkansas, in November, 1861 and C. L. Dawson was elected Colonel. The unit was assigned to the garrison of Fort Hindman at Arkansas Post, a large part of the regiment was captured when the fort was surrendered on January 11, 1863. Some of the men, including the regimental commander, Col. Dawson, were absent from Arkansas Post at the time it surrendered. This remnant of the 19th was consolidated with similar remnants of other units captured at the post, and with Colonel Dawson, in command, they continued to be referred to as the 19th Arkansas, some times being referred to as Hardy's Regiment (who succeeded Dawson in command), and operated in the Trans-Mississippi department for the remainder of the war. The part of Dawson's original regiment that was captured at Arkansas Post, were sent to prisons in the North, and when exchanged in April 1863 at City Point Virgina, and then transferred to the Army of Tennessee, where they spent the rest of the war, also being referred to as the 19th Arkansas. There was also a third regiment that was given the designation of 19th Arkansas. This regiment was organized on April 2, 1862, at DeValls Bluff, with Col. Hamilton P. Smead in command. Smead was eventually replaced by Colonel Thomas P. Dockery, and surrendered with the garrison of Vicksburg Mississippi.[16]
Re-organization of the Trans-Mississippi Department
In 1863, General Price's staff decided to designate the Arkansas infantry regiments in the District of Arkansas as Trans-Mississippi Rifle Regiments. Col. Asa S. Morgan's 26th Arkansas Regiment was designated as the 3rd Trans-Mississippi Regiment. Immediately the officers and men begin to refer to them selves as the 3rd Arkansas Regiment. This leads to confusion for researhers find Col. Van H. Manning's 3rd Arkansas Volunteer Infantry serving under General Lee in the Army of Northern Virgian and a group in Arkansas who insist on also calling themselves the 3rd Arkansas.[5]
Consolidated units
As Confederate units lost access to the geographical area's that they were organized in, they lost any ability to recruit replacements for their battlefield and non battlefield losses. This was particularly true of the regiments that found themselves issolated east of the Mississippi River after the fall of Vicksburg in in 1863. As the regiments continued to dwendle in size, it became necessary to combine or consolidate units in order to eliminate unnecessary, redudant command and staff positions and field units at or near full strength. Most of these consolidates were considered "field consolidations" which were intended to be temporary organizations, until recruits could be obtained. Attempts were made to maintain the separate identity of the orgional regiments in these temporary or field consoliations. Later as the man power shortage became more extreme, it became necessary to make these consolidations permanent. In these Department of the Trans-Mississippi, these permanent consoldiations began in 1864, resulting in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Arkansas Consolidated Infantry Regiments. In the Army of Tennessee these permanent consolidations did not occur until the final month of the war, resulting in the 1st Consoldiated Arkansas Infantry and the 1st Consolidated Arkansas Mounted Rifles.
The 40 Series Regiments
The 40-series Arkansas Infantry, regiments with a number higher than 40, are actually listed as Cavalry Regiments in most histories.[17] These regiments were originally authorized as infantry regiments, but were mounted in order to accompany Price's 1864 Missouri Campaign, which was planned as an all-cavalry affair. The rare references list them as mounted infantry, for example, 44th Arkansas Infantry (Mounted). However, they were almost always referred to as Cavalry units 44th Arkansas Cavalry, when the numerical designation was used. Usually, however, they were simply designated by the name of the regiment's colonel, for example, McGehee's Arkansas Cavalry. These regiments were for the most part raised in northeast Arkansas, and seem to have consisted in large part of absentees from other regiments. The 45th Arkansas, for example, consisted largely of absentees from the 38th Arkansas Regiment.[18]
List of Arkansas Confederate Regiments
Un-numbered Regiments
- Adams' Infantry
- Borland's Infantry
- Cocke's Infantry, see 39th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
Infantry Battalions
- 1st Arkansas Infantry Battalion, became 18th (Marmaduke's) Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- 2nd Arkansas Infantry Battalion, eventually merged with 3rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- 3rd Arkansas Infantry Battalion, eventually became the 15th (Northwest) Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- 4th Arkansas Infantry Battalion eventually consolidated with the 4th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- 7th Arkansas Infantry Battalion, eventually consolidated with 8th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- 8th Arkansas Infantry Battalion
- 9th Arkansas Infantry Battalion, eventually consolidated with 8th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- 11th Arkansas Infantry Battalion, eventually enrolled in the 25th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- 12th (Sharp Shooters) Arkansas Infantry Battalion
- Williamson's Arkansas Infantry Battalion, split up, with companies going to several Arkansas units near Corinth Mississippi
- Crawford's Arkansas Infantry Battalion
Volunteer Companies
The basic building blocks for regiment during the Civi War period was the volunteer company. Many Volunteer Militia Companies were organized under the authority of the Arkansas Militia Law during 1860 and 1861. Most of the companies raised during this period had their elections certified by the local militia regimental commander and their commissions were issued by the Governor as the Commander in Chief of the State Militia. This practice continued until the fall of 1861. Other Volunteer Companies were raised directly for Confederate service and were never organized in the state militia. Volunteer Companies, wheter militia or raised directly for Confederate Service were then organizied in to new Volunteer Regiments. a Regiment required 8-10 companies for organization. If a unit was not able to must field enough companies to organize as a regiment, It was often allow to organize as a separate battalion until enough companies were added to comprise a full regiment. A separate battalion was commanded by a Lieutant Colonel. This list includes only those companies with a distinct name.[19] Many volunteer companies were simply disgnated "Volunteer Infantry Company, Conway County," or Volunteer Cavalry Company, Conway County".[20]
Company Name | Commanding Officer | Company | Regiment |
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Adams Artillery | Captain James J. Gaines | 1st Arkansas Field Battery. | |
Appeal Battery | Captain William C. Bryan | 5th Arkansas Field Battery. | |
Arkansas Guards | Captain Ganum Brightwell | Company G | 7th Arkansas Infantry. |
Arkansas Horse Artillery | see Clark County Artillery. | ||
Arkansas Rats | see Jackson Light Artillery. | ||
Arkansas Rifles | Captain Felix R. Robertson | Company E | 18th Arkansas Infantry. |
Arkansas Toothpicks | Captain Lucius P. Featherston | Company K | 5th Arkansas Infantry. |
Arkansas Toothpicks | Captain G. A. Hale | Company B | 12th Arkansas Infantry. |
Arkansas Travellers | Captain William H. Tebbs | Company A | 3rd Arkansas Infantry. |
Arkansas Travellers | Captain Robert M. Wallace | Company G | 9th Arkansas Infantry. |
Ashley Light Infantry | Captain Micajah R. Wilson | Company F | 8th Arkansas Battalion. |
Ashley Rangers | Captain James H. Capers | Company A | 13th Louisiana Battalion. |
Ashley Volunteers | Captain Vannoy H. Manning | Company K | 3rd Arkansas Infantry. |
Auburn Grays | Captain Joseph W. Barnett | Company F | 18th Arkansas Infantry. |
Augusta Guards | Captain Charles H. Matlock | Company D | 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles. |
Austin Rifles | Captain Andrew J. Gingles | Company I | 5th Arkansas Infantry. |
Austin Artillery | Captain John T. Trigg | 9th Arkansas Field Battery. | |
Bayou Metoe Hornets | see Turnbull Guards. | ||
Belle Point Guards | Captain W. R. Hartzig | Company G | 5th Arkansas State Troops. |
Berlin Beauregards | Captain James H. Capers | Company B | 3rd Arkansas Infantry. |
Bevering Riflemen | Captain Benjamin F. Sweeney | Company C | 5th Arkansas Infantry. |
Black River Rifles | Captain Robert C. Jones | Company C | 8th Arkansas Battalion. |
Blackburn Guards | Captain Samuel V. Reid | Company H | 3rd Arkansas Infantry. |
Booneville Rifles | Captain William Gipson | Company A | 2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles. |
Border Rangers | Captain Dandridge McRae | Company E | 6th Arkansas Battalion. |
Bradley Guards | Captain John M. Bradley | Company A | 9th Arkansas Infantry. |
Brierfield Rebels | Captain Archibald J. McNeill | Company D | 6th Arkansas Battalion. |
Bright Star Rifles | Captain Josephus C. Tison | Company D | 4th Arkansas Infantry. |
Brownsville Rifles | Captain Robert S. Gantt | Company G | 5th Arkansas Infantry. |
Burrowville Mountain Guards | Captain John J. Dawson | Company I | 3rd Confederate Infantry. |
Caddo Rifles | Captain Francis J. Erwin | Company C | 4th Arkansas Infantry. |
Calhoun Escopets | Captain Joseph B. McCulloch | Company A | 4th Arkansas Infantry. |
Calhoun Invincibles | Captain Oliver H. P. Black | Company K | 4th Arkansas Infantry. |
Calhoun Yellow Jackets | Captain Philip H. Echols | Company B1 | 6th Arkansas Infantry. |
Camden Cavalry | Captain Samuel G. Earle Jr. | Company G | 3rd Arkansas Cavalry. |
Camden Knights | Captain William L. Crenshaw | Company C | 1st Arkansas Infantry. |
Camden Knights No. 2 | Captain John L. Logan | Company G | 11th Arkansas Infantry. |
Cane Hill Rifles | Captain Pleasant W. Buchanan | Company D | 2nd Arkansas State Troops. |
Capitol Guards | Captain Gordon N. Peay | Company A | 6th Arkansas Infantry. |
Centre Guards | Captain Isaac. D. Booe | unattached. | |
Chalk Bluff Rebels | Captain William Reed | Company F | 3rd Confederate Infantry. |
Champagnolle Guards | Captain Thomas F. Nolan | Company E | 3rd Arkansas Infantry. |
Chickasaw Guards | Captain George A. Atkins | Company C | 12th Arkansas Battalion. |
Chicot Rangers | Captain Daniel H. Reynolds | Company A | 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles. |
Chicot Rebels | Captain James D. Imboden | Company B | 8th Arkansas Battalion. |
Choctaw Rifles | Captain Richard S. Fears | Company C | 10th Arkansas Infantry. |
City Guards | Captain Richard Lyon | Company H | 6th Arkansas Infantry. |
Clan McGregor | Captain Donelson McGregor | Company D | 1st Arkansas Infantry. |
Clark County Artillery | Captain Franklin Roberts | 2nd Arkansas Light Artillery. | |
Clark County Volunteers | Captain Charles S. Stark | Company B | 1st Arkansas Infantry. |
Clark Rifles | Captain Newton S. Love | Company A | 8th Arkansas Battalion. |
Clear Lake Independent Guards | Captain Bartley M. Barnes | unattached. | |
Columbia Guards | Captain Dawson L. Killgore | Company G | 6th Arkansas Infantry. |
Colville Guards | Captain James M. Richards | Company G | 15th Northwest Arkansas Infantry. |
Confederate Grays | Captain Simon B. Thomasson | Company B2 | 9th Arkansas Infantry. |
Confederate Guards | Captain John A. Rowles | Company E | 4th Arkansas Infantry. |
Confederate Stars | Captain Thomas M. Whittington | Company C | 3rd Arkansas Infantry. |
Conway Invincibles | Captain Edwin L. Vaughan | Company E | 10th Arkansas Infantry. |
Conway Tigers | Captain John W. Duncan | Company I | 10th Arkansas Infantry. |
Corley’s Spies | Captain Samuel Corley | Company A | 1st Arkansas Cavalry. |
Cotton Plant Guards | Captain Charles F. Lynch | Company G | 18th Arkansas Infantry. |
Crawford Artillery | Captain James T. Stewart | Company F | 2nd Arkansas State Troops. |
Crawford County Rangers | Captain Thomas B. Brantley | Company C | 1st Arkansas Battalion. |
Crawford Guards | Captain Joel H. Foster | Company K | 2nd Arkansas State Troops. |
Crittenden Rangers | Captain R. T. Redman | Company C | 6th Arkansas Battalion. |
Crockett Rifles | Captain Robert H. Crockett | Company H | 1st Arkansas Infantry. |
Cut-Off Guards | Captain William H. Isom | Company B1 | 9th Arkansas Infantry. |
Dallas Artillery | Captain William Hart | 2nd Arkansas Field Battery. | |
Dallas Volunteer Rifles | Captain Feaster J. Cameron | Company C | 6th Arkansas Infantry. |
Danley’s Rangers | Captain Benjamin F. Danley | Company D | 3rd Arkansas Cavalry. |
Davis Blues | Captain Joseph L. Neal | Company F | 5th Arkansas State Troops. |
Davis Light Horse | Captain William H. Brooks | Company E | 1st Arkansas Battalion. |
Des Arc Rangers | Captain John S. Pearson | Company B | 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles. |
Des Arc Regulars | Captain Felix G. Gleaves | unattached. | |
Desha County Artillery | Captain Henry C. West | 4th Arkansas Field Battery. | |
Desha Rangers | Captain William S. Malcomb | unattached. | |
DeWitt Guards | Captain James M. Boswell | Company K | 1st Arkansas Infantry. |
Dixie Grays | Captain Samuel G. Smith | Company E | 6th Arkansas Infantry. |
Dixie Guards | Captain William C. Haislip | Company F | 9th Arkansas Infantry. |
Drew County Grays | Captain William D. Trotter | Company E | 24th Arkansas Infantry. |
Drew Light Artillery | see Monticello Artillery. | ||
Drew Light Horse | Captain Henry S. Hudspeth | Company B | 6th Arkansas Battalion. |
El Dorado Sentinels | Captain Asa S. Morgan | Company A | 1st Arkansas Infantry. |
Erin Guard | Captain George B. Hunt | Company K1 | 13th Arkansas Infantry. |
Ettomon Guards | Captain William H. Martin | Company F | 1st Arkansas Infantry. |
Fagan Guards | Captain William N. Bronaugh | Company B | 2nd Arkansas Battalion. |
Fagan Rifles | Captain John R. Lacy | Company C | 2nd Arkansas Battalion. |
Fairplay Rifles | Captain Augustus A. Crawford | Company D | 11th Arkansas Infantry. |
Falcon Guards | Captain Jackson C. C. Moss | Company E | 11th Arkansas Infantry. |
Fletcher Rifles | Captain Elliot H. Fletcher Jr. | Company C | 3rd Confederate Infantry. |
Fort Smith Artillery | Captain John G. Reid | unattached. | |
Fort Smith Grays | Captain Cabell | Company D | 4th Arkansas State Troops. |
Fort Smith Rifles | Captain James H. Sparks | Company A | 2nd Arkansas State Troops. |
Frontier Guards | Captain Hugh T. Brown | Company G | 2nd Arkansas State Troops. |
Galla Rangers | Captain Benjamin T. Embry | Company B | 2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles. |
Glaize Rifles | Captain George E. Orme | Company B | 7th Arkansas Infantry. |
Greene County Roughs | Captain Guy S. Murray | Company D | 8th Arkansas Battalion |
Greene County Volunteers | Captain James C. Anderson | 1st Arkansas 30-Day Volunteers. | |
Hardee Guards | Captain James T. Armstrong | Company H | 9th Arkansas Infantry. |
Harris Guards | Captain James T. Harris | Company A | 1st Arkansas State Troops. |
Helena Artillery | Captain A. W. Clarkson | unattached. | |
Hempstead Cavalry | Captain George E. Gamble | Company H | 2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles. |
Hempstead Hornets | Captain Rufus K. Garland | Company B | 4th Arkansas Infantry. |
Hempstead Legion | Captain Daniel W. Webster | Company A | 20th Arkansas Infantry. |
Hempstead Plough Boys | Captain Jefferson Cottingham | Company E | 20th Arkansas Infantry. |
Hempstead Rifles | Captain John R. Gratiot | Company A | 2nd Arkansas State Troops. |
Hempstead Rifles No. 2 | Captain Benjamin P. Jett, Jr. | Company H | 17th Arkansas Infantry. |
Henry Hornets | Captain Philip G. Henry | Company C | 9th Arkansas Infantry. |
High’s Repellers | Captain William T. High | Company B | 2nd Arkansas 30-Day Volunteers. |
Hindman Guards | Captain Henry B. Blakemore | Company G | 1st Arkansas State Troops. |
Holly Springs Targeteers | Captain Ezekiel P. Chandler | Company D | 12th Arkansas Infantry. |
Hot Spring Hornets | Captain Daniel A. Newman | Company F | 3rd Arkansas Infantry. |
Hot Springs Cavalry | Captain Joseph Jester | Company F | 3rd Arkansas Cavalry. |
Hot Springs Infantry | Captain Joseph A. Gregory | Company A | 2nd Arkansas Battalion. |
Hot Springs Rifles | Captain Edwin C. Jones | Company E | 12th Arkansas Infantry. |
Independence Guards | Captain Justus F. Tracy | Company E | 8th Arkansas Infantry. |
Independence Rifles | Captain William E. Gibbs | Company K | 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles. |
Independent Blues | Captain J. E. Horner | unattached. | |
Independent Light Horse Guards | Captain Powhatan Perkins | Company D | 3rd Arkansas State Troops. |
Invincible Guards | Captain Thomas P. Dockery | Company A | 5th Arkansas State Troops |
Izard Volunteers | Captain William S. Lindsey | Company A | 14th Arkansas Infantry. |
Jackson Aids | Captain William P. Ragland | Company A | 6th Arkansas Battalion. |
Jackson Guards | Captain Alexander C. Pickett | Company G | 1st Arkansas Infantry. |
Jackson Guards | Captain Wiley M. Mitchell | Company G | 33rd Arkansas Infantry. |
Jackson Light Artillery | Captain George W. McCown | 3rd Arkansas Light Artillery. | |
Jackson Minute-Men | Captain William J. Wyatt | Company F | 12th Arkansas Infantry. |
Jefferson Guards | Captain Charles H. Carlton | Company B | 1st Arkansas State Troops. |
Jefferson Minute-Men | Captain James C. Thompson | Company A | 18th Arkansas Infantry. |
Jefferson Rifles | Captain David W. Carroll | Company K | 18th Arkansas Infantry. |
Jo. Wright Guards | Captain Hampton B. Fancher | Company H | 4th Arkansas State Troops. |
John D. Adams Artillery | see Adams Artillery. | ||
Johnson Guards | Captain Alfred D. King | Company H | 2nd Arkansas State Troops. |
Johnson Rifles | Captain Oliver Basham | Company C | 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles. |
L’Anguille Rebels | Captain Lemuel O. Bridewell | Company A | 2nd Arkansas Infantry. |
La Grange Guards | Captain Daniel C. Govan | Company F | 2nd Arkansas Infantry. |
Lady Davis Guards | Captain Andrew J. Griffin | Company B2 | 6th Arkansas Infantry. |
Lafayette Guards | Captain Samuel H. Dill | Company F | 6th Arkansas Infantry. |
Lawrence County Rifles | Captain Zachariah P. McAlexander | Company E | 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles. |
Lawrence Dead-Shots | see Lawrence Sharp-Shooters. | ||
Lawrence Sharp-Shooters | Captain Joseph C. Holmes | Company G | 8th Arkansas Battalion. |
Linden Dead-Shots | Captain Poindexter Dunn | Company E | 3rd Confederate Infantry. |
Lisbon Invincibles | Captain Samuel T. Turner | Company I | 6th Arkansas Infantry. |
Little Rock Grays | Captain James B. Johnson | Company A | 3rd Confederate Infantry. |
McCown Artillery | see Jackson Light Artillery. | ||
McCown Guards | Captain D. Whit Harris | unattached. | |
McCulloch Avengers | Captain Henry P. Poston | Company B | 20th Arkansas Infantry. |
McCulloch Guards | Captain George W. Bayne | Company I | 9th Arkansas Infantry. |
McCulloch Rangers | Captain Robert W. Harper | Company I | 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles. |
McKeever Guards | Captain Thomas J. Payne | Company B | 4th Arkansas Battalion. |
Macon Cavalry | Captain Thomas M. Cochran | Company F | 6th Arkansas Battalion. |
Magruder Guards | Captain Frederick W. Hoadley | Company D | 4th Arkansas Battalion. |
Memphis Appeal Battery | see Appeal Battery. | ||
Monroe Blues | Captain Gaston W. Baldwin | Company K | 1st Arkansas State Troops. |
Montgomery Hunters | Captain John M. Simpson | Company F | 4th Arkansas Infantry. |
Monticello Artillery | Captain James A. Owens | unattached. | |
Monticello Cavalry | see Jackson Aids. | ||
Monticello Guards | Captain James A. Jackson | Company I | 1st Arkansas Infantry. |
Monticello Home Guard | Captain John S. Handley | unattached. | |
Muddy Bayou Heroes | Captain Zachariah B. Jennings | Company F | 10th Arkansas Infantry. |
Napoleon Grays | Captain Henry E. Green | Company E | 1st Arkansas State Troops. |
Napoleon Rifles | Captain John L. Porter | Company G | 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles. |
Newton Artillery | Captain Louis W. Brown | unattached. | |
North Fork Rangers | Captain William N. Parish | Company H | 18th Arkansas Infantry. |
Osceola Hornets | Captain Charles Bowen | Company G | 2nd Confederate Infantry. |
Ouachita Cavalry | Captain James M. Gee | Company H | 3rd Arkansas Cavalry. |
Ouachita Grays | Captain Hope T. Hodnett | Company K | 6th Arkansas Infantry. |
Ouachita Rifles | Captain Samuel H. Southerland | Company I | 18th Arkansas Infantry. |
Ouachita Voltigeurs | Captain Charles A. Bridewell | Company D | 6th Arkansas Infantry. |
Pat. Cleburne Guards | Captain Washington L. Martin | Company B | 2nd Arkansas Infantry. |
Perry County Mountaineers | Captain William Wilson | Company H | 10th Arkansas Infantry. |
Peyton Rifles | Captain Daniel W. Ringo | Borland’s Battalion. | |
Phillips Guards | Captain William S. Otey | Company H | 1st Arkansas State Troops. |
Pike County Blues | Captain James F. Black | Company G | 4th Arkansas Infantry. |
Pike County Rangers | Captain William J. Kelly | Company H | 16th Arkansas Infantry. |
Pike Guards | Captain Samuel R. Bell | Company C | 2nd Arkansas State Troops |
Pike Guards | Captain John H. Dye | Company E | 7th Arkansas Infantry. |
Pine Bluff Artillery | Captain Frederick P. Steck | Company G | 3rd Confederate Infantry. |
Pine Bluff Rebels | Captain Read Fletcher | Company D | 18th Arkansas Infantry. |
Polk County Invincibles | Captain William H. Earp | Company H | 4th Arkansas Infantry. |
Polk Rifles | Captain James B. Williamson | Company I | 4th Arkansas Infantry. |
Pope Walker Guards | Captain Charles A. Carroll | Company A | 3rd Arkansas State Troops. |
Prairie County Avengers | �Captain M. C. Peel | Company C | 18th Arkansas Infantry. |
Princeton Light Horse | Captain William T. M. Holmes | Company A | 3rd Arkansas Cavalry. |
Princeton Rifles | Captain Israel N. McClendon | Company B | 18th Arkansas Infantry. |
Pulaski Lancers | Captain Thomas J. Churchill | Borland's Battalion. | |
Pulaski Light Artillery | Captain William E. Woodruff Jr. | unattached. | |
Pulaski Rangers | Captain Thomas J. Churchill | Company F | 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles. |
Quitman Rifles | Captain Allen R. Witt | Company A | 10th Arkansas Infantry. |
Quitman Sharp-Shooters | Captain Jesse E. Martin | Company B | 31st Arkansas Infantry. |
Ready Rifles | Captain James B. Venable | Company B | 10th Arkansas Infantry. |
Rector Guards | Captain George W. Glenn | Company D | 1st Arkansas State Troops. |
Rector Guards | Captain Ira G. Robertson | Company K | 3rd Confederate Infantry. |
Red River Rifles | Captain Thomas G. Merrick | Company G | 10th Arkansas Infantry. |
Richland Rangers | Captain John C. Johnson | Company B1 | 13th Arkansas Infantry. |
Rough and Ready Guards | Captain George W. King | Borland's Battalion. | |
Rough and Ready Riflemen | Captain John C. Douglas | Company B | 11th Arkansas Infantry. |
Rust Guards | Captain Joseph H. Bell | Company L | 3rd Arkansas Infantry. |
Saline Avengers | Captain Lewis F. Mauney | Company F | 11th Arkansas Infantry. |
Saline Guards | Captain James F. Fagan | Company E | 1st Arkansas Infantry. |
Saline Rifle Rangers | Captain Mazarine J. Henderson | Company C | 3rd Arkansas Cavalry. |
Saline Tornadoes | Captain McDuff Vance | Company A | 11th Arkansas Infantry. |
Scott County Cavalry | Captain George W. Featherston | Company H | 3rd Arkansas State Troops. |
Sebastian County Cavalry | Captain Thomas Lewis | Company B | 3rd Arkansas State Troops. |
Selma Rifles | Captain Robert S. Taylor | Company D | 3rd Arkansas Infantry. |
Sevier County Stars | Captain John G. McKean | Company H | 5th Arkansas State Troops. |
Sevier Rifles | Captain Henry K. Brown | Company G | 2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles. |
Shamrock Guards | Captain John H. Crump | Company D | 3rd Confederate Infantry. |
Southern Defenders | Captain Edward W. Gantt | Company K | 12th Arkansas Infantry. |
Southern Flag Company | Captain John S. Walker | Company G | 12th Arkansas Infantry. |
Springfield Sharp-Shooters | Captain Samuel S. Ford | Company K | 10th Arkansas Infantry. |
Swamp Rangers | Captain Henry V. Keep | Company H | 3rd Confederate Infantry. |
Three Creeks Rifles | Captain John W. Reedy | Company G | 3rd Arkansas Infantry. |
Toombs Rifles | see Little Rock Grays. | ||
Totten Guards | Captain Augustus M. Reinhardt | Company C | 25th Arkansas Infantry. |
Trenton Guards | Captain James W. Scaife | Company E | 2nd Arkansas Infantry. |
Tulip Rifles | Captain George D. Alexander | Company I | 3rd Arkansas Infantry. |
Turnbull Guards | Captain Thomas F. Murff | Company A | 4th Arkansas Battalion. |
Tyronza Rebels | Captain Robert L. Harding | Company I | 1st Arkansas State Troops. |
Walker Artillery | Captain Lacey | unattached. | |
Walker Grays | Captain Lawrence R. Frisk | Company B | 5th Arkansas Infantry. |
Washington Artillery | Captain Chambers B. Etter | 6th Arkansas Field Battery. | |
Weaver Light Artillery | Captain William E. Woodruff Jr. | 3rd Arkansas Field Battery. | |
West Point Rifles | Captain A. T. Jones | Company F | 8th Arkansas Infantry. |
White County Volunteers | Captain John A. Pemberton | Company D | 10th Arkansas Infantry. |
Windsor Guards | Captain William J. Smith | Company F | 29th Arkansas Infantry. |
Wood’s Rifles | Captain Joel G. Wood | Company E | 8th Arkansas Battalion. |
Worsham Avengers | Captain James G. Johnson | Company A | 19th Arkansas Infantry. |
Yell Blues | Captain Cornelius S. Lawrence | Company D | 5th Arkansas State Troops. |
Yell County Rifles | Captain Thomas J. Daniel | Company H | 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles. |
Yell Guards | Captain Francis M. McNally | Company C | 1st Arkansas State Troops. |
Yell Rifles | Captain Patrick R. Cleburne | Company F | 1st Arkansas State Troops. |
Young Guard | Captain John F. Cameron | Company B | 3rd Confederate Infantry. |
- Ballard's Infantry Company
- Clayton's Infantry Company
- Ernest's Infantry Company
- Hutchison's Infantry Company
- Kuykendall's Infantry Company,
- Willett's Infantry Company,
Cavalry
Misc Cavalry Units
- Carlton's Cavalry
- Gordon's Cavalry
- McGehee's Cavalry
- Wright's Cavalry
- Harrell's Battalion, Cavalry
- Nave's Battalion, Cavalry
- Poe's Battalion, Cavalry
- Witherspoon's Battalion, Cavalry
- Reeve's Company, Cavalry
- Abraham's Company, Mounted Volunteers
- Baker's Company, Mounted Volunteers
- Hooker's Company, Mounted Volunteers
- Gipson's Battalion, Mounted Rifles
- Sparks' Company, Infantry
Artillery
Most Artillery Units seem to have begun the war named for the city or county that sponsored it's organziation. In the Official Records, artillery units are most often referred to by the name of their battery commander. During the war, some effort was made to organize artillery unit's into Battalion's and Regiments, but the units almost never functioned above the battery level, and were often broken out and fought as single gun sections. For these reasons the Arkansas artillery organizations are list by several names. Several Arkansas batteries served primarily in the Western Theater of the war, but east of the Mississippi River, those units are:
- 1st Arkansas Light Artillery, River's Battery
- 2nd Arkansas Light Artillery, Clark County Artillery, Wiggin's Battery
- 3rd Arkansas Light Artillery, Jackson Light Artillery, McCown's Battery, Thrall’s Battery
- Moticello Artillery, Drew Light Artillery, Owen's Battery
- Helena Artillery, Clarkson's Battery, Key's Battery
- Battery A, 1st Tennessee Artillery Battalion (Primarily Arkansas Troops)
On November 19, 1864, General E. Kirby Smith, commanding the Confederate Trans-Mississippi Department, issued Special Orders No. 290, organizing the artillery of the department into battalions. The component batteries rarely, if ever, operated together. They were usually assigned individually to an infantry or cavalry brigade. The Arkansas artillery units that served primarily in the Department of the Trans-Mississippi are:
- 1st Arkansas Field Battery, McNally's Battery
- 2nd Arkansas Field Battery, Dallas Artillery, Hart's Battery
- 3rd Arkansas Field Battery, Pulaski Light Artillery, Marshall's Battery
- 4th Arkansas Field Battery, Desha County Artillery, West's Battery
- 5th Arkansas Field Battery, Arkansas Appeal Battery
- 6th Arkansas Field Battery, Washington Artillery, Etter's Battery
- 7th Arkansas Field Battery, Blocher’s Battery, Zimmerman's Battery
- 8th Arkansas Field Battery, Hughey's Battery
- Pine Bluff Artillery, Steck’s Battery
- Fort Smith Artillery, Ried's Battery
See also
- Lists of American Civil War Regiments by State
- Confederate Units by State
- Arkansas in the American Civil War
References
- ^ a b Arkansas Militia in the Civil War
- ^ Militia Law of the State of Arkansas, Published by direction of the Commander in Chief of the Army of the State of Arkansas and the Militia thereof, page 56 accessed 1 January 2011, http://books.google.com/books?id=3lFKAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA53#v=onepage&q=militia&f=false
- ^ Huff, COL Leo E., The Military Board in Confederate Arkansas, Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Page 76
- ^ Edward G. Gerdes Civil War Page, “The Hempstead Rifles” , Arkansas State Troops, Accessed 10 January 2010, http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/hemprifl.html
- ^ a b c Howerton, Bryan, "The 3rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment(s)", Arkansas in the Civil War Message Board, Posted, 6 February 2007, 5:21 pm , Accessed 3 August 2011, http://history-sites.com/cgi-bin/bbs53x/arcwmb/webbbs_config.pl?noframes;read=14621
- ^ Reynolds, John H., "Official Orders of Governor Harris Flanagin", by Publications of the Arkansas Historical Association, Volume 2, Arkansas Historical Association, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1908, Page 370, Accessed May 11, 2011, http://books.google.com/books?id=RTw7AAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA406&ots=dFjyDBfTF9&dq=Gordon%20N.%20Peay%20Arkansas&pg=PA370#v=onepage&q=newton&f=false
- ^ a b c THE WAR OF THE REBELLION, THE OFFICIAL RECORD OF THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE ARMIES, SERIES I—VOLUME LIU, GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, 1898, Page 901, Accessed May 11, 2011, http://books.google.com/books?id=XpM3AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA901&lpg=PA1019&ots=bt2XZDsv0s&dq=Governor+Flanagin+appointed+Gordon+N.+Peay&output=text#c_top
- ^ THE WAR OF THE REBELLION, THE OFFICIAL RECORD OF THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE ARMIES, SERIES I—VOLUME LIU, GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, 1898, Page 889, Accessed May 11, 2011, http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA896&lpg=PA1019&dq=Governor%20Flanagin%20appointed%20Gordon%20N.%20Peay&sig=Ye8GGU9Ry-kuZ9mDZS1sy03FUvE&ei=xEXLTf-WOJSUtwfmz5XjBw&ct=result&id=XpM3AQAAIAAJ&ots=bt2XZDsv0s&output=text
- ^ THE WAR OF THE REBELLION, THE OFFICIAL RECORD OF THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE ARMIES, SERIES I—VOLUME LIU, GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, 1898, Page 903, Accessed 11 May2011, http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA903&lpg=PA1019&dq=Governor%20Flanagin%20appointed%20Gordon%20N.%20Peay&id=XpM3AQAAIAAJ&ots=bt2XZDsv0s&output=text
- ^ Reynolds, John H., "Official Orders of Governor Harris Flanagin", by Publications of the Arkansas Historical Association, Volume 2, Arkansas Historical Association, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1908, Page 362, Accessed May 11, 2011, http://books.google.com/books?id=RTw7AAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA406&ots=dFjyDBfTF9&dq=Gordon%20N.%20Peay%20Arkansas&pg=PA403#v=onepage&q=Gordon%20N.%20Peay%20Arkansas&f=false
- ^ a b Wallis, W.M., "Colonel R.C. Newton’s 10th Arkansas Cavalry", Hope, Arkansas, October 17, 1912, Posted on Rootsweb, and Ancestory.com Community, Accessed May 12, 2011, http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~arcivwar/10arcav.htm
- ^ THE WAR OF THE REBELLION, THE OFFICIAL RECORD OF THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE ARMIES, SERIES I—VOLUME LIU, GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, 1898, Page 1019, Accessed May 11, 2011, http://books.google.com/books?id=XpM3AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1019&dq=Robert+C.+Newton+Gordon+Peay+Arkansas+Official+records&hl=en&ei=n17LTbHsEYy2twe1rpH9Bw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
- ^ Reynolds, John H., "Official Orders of Governor Harris Flanagin", by Publications of the Arkansas Historical Association, Volume 2, Arkansas Historical Association, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1908, Page 421, Accessed May 11, 2011, http://books.google.com/books?id=RTw7AAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA406&ots=dFjyDBfTF9&dq=Gordon%20N.%20Peay%20Arkansas&pg=PA421#v=onepage&q=newton&f=false
- ^ Howerton, Bryan, "15th Arkansas Regiment, No. 2", The Arkansas in the Civil War Message Board, Posted February 8, 2007, Accessed May 23, 2011, http://history-sites.com/cgi-bin/bbs53x/arcwmb/webbbs_config.pl?noframes;read=14677
- ^ Howerton, Bryan, "15th Arkansas Regiment, No.3", Arkansas in the Civil War Message Board, Accessed 10 July 2011, http://history-sites.com/cgi-bin/bbs53x/arcwmb/webbbs_config.pl?noframes;read=14684
- ^ Howerton, Bryan, and Taylor, Doyle, "19th Arkansas Regiment, No. 1", Arkansas in the Civil War Message Board, Accessed 22 July 2011, http://history-sites.com/cgi-bin/bbs53x/arcwmb/webbbs_config.pl?noframes;read=14787
- ^ Cluck, Damon, "40th, 42nd, 46th and 48th Arkansas", Arkansas in the Civil War Message Board, Posted Monday, 1 August 2011, 4:29 pm, Accessed 3 August 2011, http://history-sites.com/cgi-bin/bbs53x/arcwmb/webbbs_config.pl?noframes;read=24507
- ^ Howerton, Bryan, " 40th, 42nd, 46th and 48th Arkansas" Arkansas in the Civil War Message Board, Posted 1 August 2011, 9:10 pm , Accessed 2 August 2011, http://history-sites.com/cgi-bin/bbs53x/arcwmb/webbbs_config.pl?noframes;read=14623
- ^ Howerton, Bryan, "Company Names", Arkansas in the Civil War Message Board, Posted, Monday, 13 September 2004, at 1:25 p.m., Accessed 21 July 2011, http://history-sites.com/mb/cw/arcwmb/archive_index.cgi?noframes;read=8440
- ^ Arkansas Military Department Records, List of Commissioned Officers in State Militia 1827–1862, Microfilm Roll 00000038-8, Page 32
External links
- Edward G. Gerdes Civil War Home Page
- Encylopedia of Arkansas History and Culture
- War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
- Arkansas History Commission, State Archives, Civil War in Arkansas
- 3rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- History of the 3rd Arkansas
- "For Ninety Nine Years or the War" The Story of the 3rd Arkansas at Gettysburg
- 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles