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==Organization==
==Organization==
36th Arkansas Infantry Regiment was originally organized in June 26, 1862, as the the [[28th Arkansas Infantry Regiment]], under the command of Colonel [[Dandridge McRae]]. The unit was orgionally intended as a mounted force, but was dismounted shortly after being formed along with three other newly formed mounted commands, by order of General [[Thomas C. Hindman]].<ref>Howerton, Bryan R. "Re: Col John McNeil", Arkansas in the Civil War Message Board, Posted 13 September 2012, Accessed 27 April 2012, http://history-sites.com/cgi-bin/bbs53x/arcwmb/arch_config.pl?read=2072</ref> It served in the brigades of Generals McRae, L. C. Gause, and Roane in the Trans-Mississippi Department.<ref>United States. War Dept. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 41, In Four Parts. Part 4, Correspondence, Etc., Book, 1893; digital images, (http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth145061 : accessed February 14, 2012), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries, Denton, Texas.</ref> [[File:Dandridge McRae.jpg|thumb|right|Colonel Dandridge McRae, who had earlier raised the [[15th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Northwest)|15th Northwest Arkansas Infantry]], was the first commander of the 28th Arkansas]] The field officers were Colonels McRea, James M. Davie and John E. Glenn, Lieutenant Colonels W. S. Hanna and Walter C. Robinson, and Major Joseph F. Hathaway.<ref name="Park Service"/> The unit was composed of volunteer companies from the following counties:<ref>Gerdes, Edward G. "36TH ARKANSAS INFANTRY REGIMENT", Edward G. Gerdes Civil War Page, Accessed 27 April 2012, http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/36f&s.html</ref>.
36th Arkansas Infantry Regiment was originally organized in June 26, 1862, as the the [[28th Arkansas Infantry Regiment]], under the command of Colonel [[Dandridge McRae]]. The unit was orgionally intended as a mounted force, but was dismounted shortly after being formed along with three other newly formed mounted commands, by order of General [[Thomas C. Hindman]].<ref>Howerton, Bryan R. "Re: Col John McNeil", Arkansas in the Civil War Message Board, Posted 13 September 2004, Accessed 27 April 2012, http://history-sites.com/cgi-bin/bbs53x/arcwmb/arch_config.pl?read=2072</ref> It served in the brigades of Generals McRae, L. C. Gause, and Roane in the Trans-Mississippi Department.<ref>United States. War Dept. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 41, In Four Parts. Part 4, Correspondence, Etc., Book, 1893; digital images, (http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth145061 : accessed February 14, 2012), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries, Denton, Texas.</ref> [[File:Dandridge McRae.jpg|thumb|right|Colonel Dandridge McRae, who had earlier raised the [[15th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Northwest)|15th Northwest Arkansas Infantry]], was the first commander of the 28th Arkansas]] The field officers were Colonels McRea, James M. Davie and John E. Glenn, Lieutenant Colonels W. S. Hanna and Walter C. Robinson, and Major Joseph F. Hathaway.<ref name="Park Service"/> The unit was composed of volunteer companies from the following counties:<ref>Gerdes, Edward G. "36TH ARKANSAS INFANTRY REGIMENT", Edward G. Gerdes Civil War Page, Accessed 27 April 2012, http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/36f&s.html</ref>.


* Company A, of White County, commanded by Captain James M. Davie.<ref>Gerdes, Edward G. "COMPANY A, 36TH ARKANSAS INFANTRY REGIMENT", Edward G. Gerdes Civil War Page, Accessed 27 April 2012, http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/36coa.html</ref> This company contained several former members of the [[21st Arkansas Militia Regiment]])<ref name="Gerdes 21st"/>
* Company A, of White County, commanded by Captain James M. Davie.<ref>Gerdes, Edward G. "COMPANY A, 36TH ARKANSAS INFANTRY REGIMENT", Edward G. Gerdes Civil War Page, Accessed 27 April 2012, http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/36coa.html</ref> This company contained several former members of the [[21st Arkansas Militia Regiment]])<ref name="Gerdes 21st"/>
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* Company I, of Conway County, commanded by Captain Isaac H. Johnson.<ref>Gerdes, Edward G. "COMPANY I, 36TH ARKANSAS INFANTRY REGIMENT", Edward G. Gerdes Civil War Page, Accessed 27 April 2012, http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/36coi.html</ref>
* Company I, of Conway County, commanded by Captain Isaac H. Johnson.<ref>Gerdes, Edward G. "COMPANY I, 36TH ARKANSAS INFANTRY REGIMENT", Edward G. Gerdes Civil War Page, Accessed 27 April 2012, http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/36coi.html</ref>
* Company K, of Pulaski County, commanded by Captain Hugh A. McDonald.<ref>Gerdes, Edward G. "COMPANY K, 36TH ARKANSAS INFANTRY REGIMENT", Edward G. Gerdes Civil War Page, Accessed 27 April 2012, http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/36cok.html</ref>
* Company K, of Pulaski County, commanded by Captain Hugh A. McDonald.<ref>Gerdes, Edward G. "COMPANY K, 36TH ARKANSAS INFANTRY REGIMENT", Edward G. Gerdes Civil War Page, Accessed 27 April 2012, http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/36cok.html</ref>

Colonel John Edward Glenn submitted his resignation on September 4, 1863, which was approved on September 18. Lieutenant Colonel James Madison Davie was promoted to colonel on October 24. Colonel Davie was still in command as of February 29, 1864, the date of the last known muster roll of the 36th Arkansas.<ref>Howerton, Bryan R. "Re: 36th Arkansas Regiment", Arkansas in the Civil War Message Board, Posted 16 September 2004, Accessed 27 April 2012, http://history-sites.com/cgi-bin/bbs53x/arcwmb/arch_config.pl?read=8478</ref>


==Battles==
==Battles==

Revision as of 02:05, 30 April 2012

36th Arkansas Infantry (Confederate)
Arkansas state flag
Active1862 to 1865
CountryConfederate States of America
AllegianceCSA Dixie
BranchInfantry
EngagementsBattle of Prairie Grove

Battle of Helena,

Battle of Little Rock,

Red River Campaign,

Battle of Pleasant Hill,
Battle of Jenkins Ferry,

Template:Infobox Arkansas Confederate Infantry Regiments The 36th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (1862–1865) was a Confederate Army infantry regiment during the American Civil War. The unit, which was originally known as McRea's Emergency Regiment, was originally organized as the 28th Arkansas Infantry Regiment. Following the Battle of Prairie Grove, the regiment was reorganized and redesignated as the 36th Arkansas Infantry Regiment. The unit is also occasionally referred to as the 2nd Trans-Mississippi Infantry Regiment.

Organization

36th Arkansas Infantry Regiment was originally organized in June 26, 1862, as the the 28th Arkansas Infantry Regiment, under the command of Colonel Dandridge McRae. The unit was orgionally intended as a mounted force, but was dismounted shortly after being formed along with three other newly formed mounted commands, by order of General Thomas C. Hindman.[1] It served in the brigades of Generals McRae, L. C. Gause, and Roane in the Trans-Mississippi Department.[2]

Colonel Dandridge McRae, who had earlier raised the 15th Northwest Arkansas Infantry, was the first commander of the 28th Arkansas

The field officers were Colonels McRea, James M. Davie and John E. Glenn, Lieutenant Colonels W. S. Hanna and Walter C. Robinson, and Major Joseph F. Hathaway.[3] The unit was composed of volunteer companies from the following counties:[4].

  • Company A, of White County, commanded by Captain James M. Davie.[5] This company contained several former members of the 21st Arkansas Militia Regiment)[6]
  • Company B, of White County, commanded by Captain Robert Query.[7] This company contained several former members of the 21st Arkansas Militia Regiment)[6]
  • Company C, of Prairie County, commanded by Captain Walter C. Robinson[8]
  • Company D, of Van Buren County, commanded by Captain R.L. Norman.[9]
  • Company E, of White County, commanded by Captain George W. Lewis.[10] This company contained several former members of the 21st Arkansas Militia Regiment)[6]
  • Company F, of Conway County, commanded by Captain John W. Duncan.[11]
  • Company G, of Pulaski County, commanded by Captain B.C. Neale. This company included several men from other regiments who had been hospitalized at Little Rock.[12]
  • Company H, of White County, commanded by Joseph F. Hathaway.[13]
  • Company I, of Conway County, commanded by Captain Isaac H. Johnson.[14]
  • Company K, of Pulaski County, commanded by Captain Hugh A. McDonald.[15]

Colonel John Edward Glenn submitted his resignation on September 4, 1863, which was approved on September 18. Lieutenant Colonel James Madison Davie was promoted to colonel on October 24. Colonel Davie was still in command as of February 29, 1864, the date of the last known muster roll of the 36th Arkansas.[16]

Battles

During the Prairie Grove campaign, the 28th Arkansas Infantry was brigaded with the 26th, 32nd, and 30th Arkansas and Marshalls Arkansas Battery. Colonel Dandridge McRae, of the 28th was promoted to Brigadier General and assigned to command the brigade in Shoup's Division in Major General Thomas C. Hindman's 1st Corps of the Army of the Trans-Mississippi. The brigade fought in the battle of Prairie Grove on December 7–8, 1862.[17] During the general re-organization of the 1st Corps of the Army of the Trans-Mississippi, following the Battle of Prairie Grove, new muster rolls for several of the regiments were sent to the Confederate War Department in Richmond, which assumed that the rolls were for new regiments, and thus assigned new numerical designations, thus the 28th Arkansas Infantry became redesignated as the 36th Arkansas Infantry Regiment.[18]

On July 4, 1863, the brigade and the 36th Arkansas served in the attack on the federal post at Helena, Arkansas. In the fight at Helena the unit reported 21 killed, 70 wounded, and 68 missing. It then participated in the engagement at Jenkins' Ferry and later saw light action in Arkansas and Louisiana.[3] Captain Hamilton B. Wear, Company I, 36th Arkansas Infantry, was court-martialed on August 19, 1863, at Camp Bayou Meto, on the charges of encouraging desertion, and conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. As late as November 20, 1863, Captain Wear was in the guard-house at Camp Bragg, awaiting a review of his court-martial. He was eventually permitted to resign his commission on December 29, 1863. He took the oath of allegiance to the United States on January 18, 1864.[19] They would take part in the following battles:[20]

Surrender

The formal surrender was dated May 26, 1865 at New Orleans. Lieutenant General S.B. Buckner, acting for General E. Kirby Smith, Confederate Commander of the Trans-Mississippi Department, entered into military convention with Federal Major General Peter J. Osterhaus, representing Major General E.R.S. Canby. Under the terms of the surrender all resistance would cease, and officers and men would be paroled under terms similar to those of the Appomattox surrender. General Smith actually approved the convention June 2, 1865 at Galveston, Texas.[21] This surrender agreement required the disbanded Confederate soldiers to report into Federal parole centers set up in key communities in Confederate-held Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas to be accounted for and to give and receive their final parole. All absentees from units serving east of the Mississippi River who were then in the Trans-Mississippi and had not been paroled east of the Mississippi were also required to report. The 36th Arkansas, along with most of the other Arkansas infantry regiments, was camped around Marshall, Texas, when the Trans-Mississippi Army surrendered. With few exceptions, the Arkansas infantry regiments disbanded at Marshall and went home. A few men stopped off at Shreveport to receive paroles, and a few more were paroled at Pine Bluff; but for the most part, the men simply went home without bothering with paroles.[22] Of the 1104 men who had served in the 36th Arkansas 510 were no longer with them. The regiment had suffered 245 soldiers killed in action or died of disease, another 136 had been captured and 129 had deserted. Forty-six percent of the total number of soldiers that had mustered into the regiment were no longer with the regiment at the end of the war.

See also

Bibliography

  • Bears, Edwin C. “The Battle of Helena, July 4, 1863.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 20 (Autumn 1961): 256–297.
  • Christ, Mark K. Civil War Arkansas, 1863: The Battle for a State. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010.
  • Christ, Mark K., ed. Rugged and Sublime: The Civil War in Arkansas. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1994.
  • Christ, Mark K. “‘We Were Badly Whipped’: A Confederate Account of the Battle of Helena, July 4, 1863.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 69 (Spring 2010): 44–53.
  • Price, Jeffery R. "A Courage And Desperation Rarely Equaled: The 36th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Confederate States Army), 26 June 1862--25 May 1865". MA thesis, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 2003.
  • Schieffler, George David. “Too Little, Too Late to Save Vicksburg: The Battle of Helena, Arkansas, July 4, 1863.” MA thesis, University of Arkansas, 2005.

References

  1. ^ Howerton, Bryan R. "Re: Col John McNeil", Arkansas in the Civil War Message Board, Posted 13 September 2004, Accessed 27 April 2012, http://history-sites.com/cgi-bin/bbs53x/arcwmb/arch_config.pl?read=2072
  2. ^ United States. War Dept. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 41, In Four Parts. Part 4, Correspondence, Etc., Book, 1893; digital images, (http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth145061 : accessed February 14, 2012), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries, Denton, Texas.
  3. ^ a b National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, Confederate Arkansas Troops, 36th Regiment, Arkansas Infantry, Accessed 27 January 2011, http://www.civilwar.nps.gov/cwss/regiments.cfm
  4. ^ Gerdes, Edward G. "36TH ARKANSAS INFANTRY REGIMENT", Edward G. Gerdes Civil War Page, Accessed 27 April 2012, http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/36f&s.html
  5. ^ Gerdes, Edward G. "COMPANY A, 36TH ARKANSAS INFANTRY REGIMENT", Edward G. Gerdes Civil War Page, Accessed 27 April 2012, http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/36coa.html
  6. ^ a b c Edward G. Gerdes Civil War Page, 21st Regiment Arkansas Militia, Accessed 30 January 2011, http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/21milcoe.html
  7. ^ Gerdes, Edward G. "COMPANY B, 36TH ARKANSAS INFANTRY REGIMENT", Edward G. Gerdes Civil War Page, Accessed 27 April 2012, http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/36cob.html
  8. ^ Gerdes, Edward G. "COMPANY C, 36TH ARKANSAS INFANTRY REGIMENT", Edward G. Gerdes Civil War Page, Accessed 27 April 2012, http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/36coc.html
  9. ^ Gerdes, Edward G. "COMPANY D, 36TH ARKANSAS INFANTRY REGIMENT", Edward G. Gerdes Civil War Page, Accessed 27 April 2012, http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/36cod.html
  10. ^ Gerdes, Edward G. "COMPANY E, 36TH ARKANSAS INFANTRY REGIMENT", Edward G. Gerdes Civil War Page, Accessed 27 April 2012, http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/36coe.html
  11. ^ Gerdes, Edward G. "COMPANY F, 36TH ARKANSAS INFANTRY REGIMENT", Edward G. Gerdes Civil War Page, Accessed 27 April 2012, http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/36cof.html
  12. ^ Gerdes, Edward G. "COMPANY G, 36TH ARKANSAS INFANTRY REGIMENT", Edward G. Gerdes Civil War Page, Accessed 27 April 2012, http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/36cog.html
  13. ^ Gerdes, Edward G. "COMPANY H, 36TH ARKANSAS INFANTRY REGIMENT", Edward G. Gerdes Civil War Page, Accessed 27 April 2012, http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/36coh.html
  14. ^ Gerdes, Edward G. "COMPANY I, 36TH ARKANSAS INFANTRY REGIMENT", Edward G. Gerdes Civil War Page, Accessed 27 April 2012, http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/36coi.html
  15. ^ Gerdes, Edward G. "COMPANY K, 36TH ARKANSAS INFANTRY REGIMENT", Edward G. Gerdes Civil War Page, Accessed 27 April 2012, http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/36cok.html
  16. ^ Howerton, Bryan R. "Re: 36th Arkansas Regiment", Arkansas in the Civil War Message Board, Posted 16 September 2004, Accessed 27 April 2012, http://history-sites.com/cgi-bin/bbs53x/arcwmb/arch_config.pl?read=8478
  17. ^ Cite error: The named reference Christmas was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  18. ^ Howerton, Bryan R. "Re: 36th Arkansas Regiment", Arkansas in the Civil War Message Board, Posted 16 September 2004, Accessed 27 April 2012, http://history-sites.com/cgi-bin/bbs53x/arcwmb/arch_config.pl?read=8481
  19. ^ Howerton, Bryan R. "Re: mass desertion?" Arkansas in the Civil War Message Board, Posted 1 February 2007, Accessed 6 December 2011, http://history-sites.com/cgi-bin/bbs53x/arcwmb/webbbs_config.pl?read=14540
  20. ^ Edward G. Gerdes Civil War Page, 36TH ARKANSAS INFANTRY REGIMENT, Accessed 30 January 2011, http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/36f&s.html
  21. ^ Reb, Johnny "Re: Where did Kirby Smith surrender? ", Arkansas in the Civil War Message Board, Posted 3 March 2003, Accessed 6 December 2011 http://history-sites.com/mb/cw/arcwmb/archive_index.cgi?noframes;read=3464
  22. ^ Sikakis, Stewart, Compendium of the Confederate Armies, Florida and Arkansas Facts on File, 1992, ISBN 978-0-8160-2288-5, page 118.
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