| _th Arkansas Field Battery (Confederate) | |
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 Arkansas state flag | |
| Active | 1861 to 1865 |
| Country | Confederate States of America |
| Allegiance | CSA .svg){kind=small} |
| Branch | Artillery |
The __th Arkansas Field Battery (1861-1865) was a Confederate Army artillery battery during the American Civil War.
Organization
editThe unit was enrolled in State service on __________ at ________. The unit was inducted into Confederate Service on ______ at ________. The unit was composed of volunteer companies from the follwing counties:
- Company A, Commanded by Captain , organized in , Arkansas on .
That all such companies, squadrons, battalions, and regiments, whose term of original enlistment was for twelve months, shall have the right, within forty days, on a day to be fixed by the commander of the brigade, to reorganize said companies, battalions, and regiments, by electing all their officers, which they had a right heretofore to elect, who shall be commissioned by the President: Provided further, That furloughs not exceeding sixty days, with transportation home and back, shall be granted to all those retained in the service by the provisions of this act beyond the period of their original enlistment, and who have not heretofore received furloughs under the provisions of an act entitled "An act providing for the granting of bounty and furloughs to privates and noncommissioned officers in the provisional army," approved eleventh December, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, said furloughs to be granted at such time and in such numbers as the secretary of war may deem most compatible with the public interest: And provided further, That in lieu of a furlough the commutation value in money of the transportation herein above granted shall be paid to each private, musician, or noncommissioned officer who may elect to receive it, at such time as the furlough would otherwise be granted: Provided further, That all persons under the age of eighteen years or over the age of thirty-five years who are now enrolled in the military service of the Confederate States, in the regiments, squadrons, battalions, and companies hereafter to be reorganized, shall be required to remain in their respective companies, squadrons, battalions, and regiments for ninety days, unless their places can be sooner supplied by other recruits not now in the service, who are between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five years; and all laws and parts of laws providing for the reenlistment of volunteers and the organization thereof into companies, squadrons, battalions, or regiments shall be and the same are hereby repealed.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That such companies, squadrons, battalions, or regiments organized, or in process of organization by authority from the secretary of war, as may be within thirty days from the passage of this act so far completed as to have the whole number of men requisite for organization actually enrolled, not embracing in said organizations any persons now in service, shall be mustered into the service of the Confederate States as part of the land forces of the same, to be received in that arm of the service in which they are authorized to organize, and shall elect their company, battalion, and regimental officers.
Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, That all soldiers now serving in the army or mustered in the military service of the Confederate States, or enrolled in said service under the authorizations heretofore issued by the Secretary of War, and who are continued in the service by virtue of this act, who have not received the bounty of fifty dollars allowed by existing laws, shall be entitled to receive said bounty.
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Battles
editThe ___th Arkansas fought at the, They would go on to take part in the following battles:
- Battle of Wilson's Creek, Missouri, August 10, 1861
- Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, March 6–8, 1862.
- Battle of Chalk Bluff May 1–2, 1863
- Battle of Cane Hill, Arkansas, November 28, 1862,
- Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas, December 7, 1862,
- Battle of Arkansas Post, Arkansas January 9–11, 1863
- Battle of Helena, Arkansas July 4, 1863
- Battle of Elkin's Ferry
- Battle of Hill's Plantation
- Battle of Old River Lake
- Battle of Prairie D'Ane
- Battle of Saint Charles
- Battle of Whitney's Lane
- Battle of Reed's Bridge
- Battle of Bayou Fourche September 10, 1863
- Battle of Little Rock, Arkansas, September 10, 1863
- Battle of Devil's Backbone, Arkansas, September 1, 1863
- Battle of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, October 25, 1863
- Red River Campaign, Arkansas Mar-May, 1864
- Battle of Jenkins Ferry, Arkansas April 30, 1864
- Battle of Poison Spring, Arkansas, April 18, 1864
- Battle of Marks' Mills, Arkansas, April 25, 1864
- Battle of Dardanelle, Arkansas,
- Price's Missouri Raid, Arkansas-Missouri-Kansas, September, 1864
- Battle of Marais des Cygnes, Linn County, Kansas , October 25, 1864
Western theater:
- Battle of Rowlett’s Station, Kentucky, December 17, 1861.
- Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, April 6-7, 1862.
- Siege of Corinth, April to June 1862.
- Battle of Richmond, Kentucky, August 29-30 1862.
- Battle of Perryville, Kentucky, October 8, 1862.
- Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, December 31, 1862 to January 3, 1863.
- Tullahoma Campaign, June 24 - July 3, 1863.
- Battle of Liberty Gap, Tennessee, June 24-26, 1863.
- Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, September 19-20, 1863.
- Siege of Chattanooga, September to November 1863.
- Battle of Missionary Ridge, Tennessee, November 25, 1863.
- Battle of Ringgold Gap, Georgia, November 27, 1863.
- Atlanta Campaign, May to September 1864.
- Battle of Dalton, Georgia, May 5-11, 1864.
- Battle of Resaca, Georgia, May 14-15, 1864.
- Battle of New Hope Church, Georgia, May 25 - June 4, 1864.
- Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia, June 27, 1864.
- Battle of Peachtree Creek, Georgia, July 20, 1864.
- Siege of Atlanta, Georgia, July 22, 1864.
- Battle of Jonesboro, Georgia, August 31 to September 1, 1864.
- Battle of Spring Hill, Tennessee, November 29, 1864.
- Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, November 30, 1864.
- Battle of Nashville, Tennessee, December 15-16, 1864.
- Carolinas Campaign, February to April 1865.
- Battle of Bentonville, North Carolina, March 19-21, 1865.
Toward the end of the war, ten depleted Arkansas regiments, including the __th Arkansas, were lumped together as the 1st Arkansas Consolidated Infantry, April 9, 1865.
Surrender
editThis regiment surrendered with the Army of Tennessee at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865.
References
edit- ^ UPTON, EMORY, Bvt. Maj. Gen., United States Army; "THE MILITARY POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES" WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1912, Page 471, Congressional edition, Volume 6164, Google Books, Accessed 4 November 2011, http://books.google.com/books?id=2-tGAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA471&lpg=PA471&dq=Confederate+conscription+law+reorganization+regiment&source=bl&ots=7ptDBF0n2D&sig=-K_6PQoHglmh_SOzuobv_JyNWUw&hl=en#v=onepage&q=Confederate%20conscription%20law%20reorganization%20regiment&f=false
- ^ National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, Confederate Arkansas Troops, 25th Regiment, Arkansas Infantry, Accessed 27 January 2011
- ^ Sikakis, Stewart, Compendium of the Confederate Armies, Florida and Arkansas, Facts on File, Inc., 1992, ISBN 0-8160-2288-7, page 118.
- ^ Edward G. Gerdes Civil War Page, Accessed 30 January 2011
- ^ Hempstead, Fay, "A Pictorial History of Arkansas" St. Louis and New York, N. D. Thompson publishing company, 1890, Call number: 9197481, Page 406, Accessed 24 August 2011, http://www.archive.org/stream/pictorialhistory00hemp#page/406/mode/2up
- ^ Col. John M. Harrell, "Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States", Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas Clement Anselm Evans, Ed., Page 292, Accessed 21 July 2011, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2001.05.0254%3Achapter%3D11%3Apage%3D292
External Links
editSee also
edit- Book:Arkansas Confederate Infantry Units
- Book:Arkansas Confederates, The Cavalry and Artillery Units
- List of Arkansas Civil War Confederate units
- Lists of American Civil War Regiments by State
- Confederate Units by State
- Arkansas in the American Civil War
- Arkansas Militia in the Civil War
This article incorporates public domain material from Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System. National Park Service.
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