List of Arkansas Civil War Confederate units: Difference between revisions

Arkansas Civil War Confederate Units, a list of units formed from that state for service in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Most of the Arkansas regiments fought almost completely in what was considered "the west" during the war. Of those, the most active was the 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles, 1st Arkansas Infantry, the 4th Arkansas Infantry, 5th Arkansas Infantry, and the 6th Arkansas, all five of whom saw considerable action while attached to General Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee. Only one, the 3rd Arkansas, fought in the east for the duration of the war, having been attached to General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Thus, that regiment took part in almost every major eastern battle and campaign, making it the states most celebrated regiment, and with that regiment having suffered heavy casualties by the wars end. Portions of both the 1st and 2nd Arkansas Infantry regiments were later augmented to the 3rd Arkansas when their regiments were disbanded. Of the 1,353 soldiers mustered into the 3rd Arkansas from the start of the war, only 144 remained at the time of Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox on April 9, 1865.

• 1st Arkansas Infantry
• 1st (Colquitt's) Infantry
• 1st (Consolidated) Infantry
• 2nd Arkansas Infantry
• 2nd (Consolidated) Infantry
• 3rd Arkansas Infantry
• 3rd (Consolidated) Infantry
  • Consolidated in the last month of the war from the 1st, 2nd, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 13th, 15th, 19th, and 24th Arkansas regiments due to all having suffered heavy casualties
• 4th Arkansas Infantry
• 5th Arkansas Infantry, called the Fighting Fifth
• 6th Arkansas Infantry
• 7th Infantry
• 8th Infantry
• 9th Infantry
• 10th Infantry
• 11th Infantry
• 11th and 17th (Griffith's) Consolidated Infantry
• 12th Infantry
• 13th Arkansas Infantry
• 14th (McCarver's) Infantry
• 14th (Powers') Infantry
• 15th Infantry
• 15th (Johnson's) Infantry
• 15th (Josey's) Infantry
• 15th (Northwest) Infantry
• 16th Infantry
• 17th (Griffith's) Infantry
• 17th (Lemoyne's) Infantry
• 18th Infantry
• 18th (Marmaduke's) Infantry
• 19th Infantry
• 19th (Dawson's) Infantry
• 19th (Dockery's) Infantry
• 20th Infantry
• 21st Infantry
• 23rd Infantry
• 24th Infantry
• 25th Infantry
• 26th Infantry
• 27th Infantry
• 31st Infantry
• 32nd Infantry
• 33rd Infantry
• 34th Infantry
• 35th Infantry
• 36th Infantry
• 37th Infantry
• 38th Infantry

• 1st Battalion, Infantry
• 2nd Battalion, Infantry
• 4th Battalion, Infantry
• 8th Battalion, Infantry

• 12th Battalion, Sharp Shooters

• 1st Cavalry
• 1st (Crawford's) Cavalry
• 1st (Dobbin's) Cavalry
• 1st (Monroe's) Cavalry
• 2nd Cavalry
• 3rd Arkansas Cavalry
• 7th Cavalry
• 8th Cavalry
• 10th (Witt's) Cavalry
• 45th Cavalry
• 46th (Crabtree's) Cavalry
• 47th (Crandall's) Cavalry
• 48th Cavalry

• 1st (Stirman's) Battalion, Cavalry
• 6th Battalion, Cavalry
• 15th (Buster's) Battalion, Cavalry

• 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles
• 2nd Mounted Rifles

• 1st Field Battery (McNally's Battery)
• 2nd Arkansas Light Artillery
• 5th Battery, Light Artillery
• Hart's Battery, Light Artillery
• Key's Battery, Light Artillery

At the begining of the war, the Arkansas Militia consisted of 68 Regiments, which were organized into eight brigades and 2 divisions. 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 Sucession 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.^[4]

The Arkansas Succession Convention decided that rather than activating the existing militia regiments, they would raise new units. 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 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 State Regiments 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 Succession Convention appointed a new state military board to organize the new regiments and coordinate their transition into Confederate service.

• 1st State Infantry, later redisgnated as the 15th (Josey's) Arkansas Volunteer Infantry regiment.
• 2nd State Infantry
• 3rd State Infantry
• 4th State Infantry
• 5th State Infantry
• 6th State Infantry
• 7th State Infantry
• 8th State Infantry
• 1st State Cavalry
• 3rd State Cavalry

• 1st Volunteers
• 2nd Volunteers
• Adams' Infantry
• Borland's Infantry
• Cocke's Infantry
• Hardy's Infantry
• Crawford's Battalion, Infantry
• Williamson's Battalion, Infantry
• Ballard's Company, Infantry
• Clayton's Company, Infantry
• Ernest's Company, Infantry
• Hutchison's Company, Infantry
• Kuykendall's Company, Infantry
• Willett's Company, Infantry
• Clear Lake Independent Guards, Infantry
• Carlton's Cavalry
• Gordon's Cavalry
• McGehee's Cavalry
• Wright's Cavalry
• Anderson's Unattached Battalion, Cavalry
• Davies' Battalion, 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
• Clarkson's Battery, Light Artillery (Helena Artillery)
• Etter's Battery, Light Artillery
• Marshall's Battery, Light Artillery
• Owen's Battery, Light Artillery
• Pine Bluff Artillery
• River's Battery, Light Artillery
• Thrall's Battery, Light Artillery
• Wiggins' Battery, Light Artillery
• Zimmerman's Battery, Light Artillery
• Miscellaneous, Arkansas
• Sparks' Company, Infantry

• 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

• Lists of American Civil War Regiments by State
• Confederate Units by State
• Arkansas in the American Civil War