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The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System is a computerized database containing very basic facts about servicemen who served on both sides during the Civil War. The system contains names and other basic information from 6.3 million soldier records in the National Archives.
Encyclopedia of Arkansas History; Edward G. Gerdes Civil War Home Page; The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies; The Arkansas History Commission, State Archives, Civil War in Arkansas This article incorporates public domain material from Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System. National ...
After the fall of Little Rock, recruiting was far more difficult than it had been in the first years of the American Civil 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 ...
Like almost all Southern states during the American Civil War, Arkansas provided a number of units to fight for the Union, organized from African-Americans and pro-Union sympathizers. Arkansas had the third smallest white population out of the Confederate states, but more whites joined the Union Army from that state than any other besides ...
The 4th Battalion, Arkansas Infantry was an infantry Battalion of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. The battalion served in the same brigade and was later consolidated with the 4th Arkansas Infantry Regiment , but units began as completely separate and unrelated organizations.
During the American Civil War, Arkansas was a Confederate state, though it had initially voted to remain in the Union.Following the capture of Fort Sumter in April 1861, Abraham Lincoln called for troops from every Union state to put down the rebellion, and Arkansas along with several other southern states seceded.
Edward G. Gerdes Civil War Home Page; The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture Archived 2011-10-10 at the Wayback Machine; The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies; The Arkansas History Commission, State Archives, Civil War in Arkansas Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine
The 1st Arkansas Infantry (30 Day Volunteers) (1861) was a Confederate Army infantry regiment during the American Civil War. The unit was composed mainly of militia units called to service by Colonel Solon F. Borland in response to an anticipated invasion of Northeast Arkansas in the fall of 1861.