8th Arkansas Infantry Battalion

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8th Arkansas Infantry Battalion (Confederate)
Active1862-1865
CountryConfederate States of America
AllegianceCSA Dixie
BranchInfantry
EngagementsSiege of Corinth,

Battle of Farmington

Iuka-Corinth Campaign

Battle of Iuka,
Battle of Corinth
Siege of Port Hudson,

The 8th Arkansas Infantry Battalion (1862–1865) was a

Confederate Army infantry regiment during the American Civil War."[1]

Organization

The unit was initially composed of volunteer companies from the following counties:[1]

With the loss of the Peyton Rifles the companies were re-lettered as follows:[1]

  • Company A—"Clark Rifles," from Clark county, Capt. Newton S. Love.
  • Company B—"Chicot Rebels," from Chicot county, Capt. James D. Imboden.
  • Company C—"Black River Rifles," from Lawrence county, Capt. Robert C. Jones.
  • Company D—"Greene County Roughs," from Greene county, Capt. Guy S. Murray.
  • Company E—"Wood's Rifles," from Craighead county, Capt. Joel G. Wood.
  • Company F—"Ashley Light Infantry," from Ashley county, Capt. Micajah R. Wilson.
  • Company G—"Lawrence Dead-Shots," from Lawrence county, Capt. Joseph C. Holmes.

Battles

During the Iuka-Corinth Campaign, September - October 1862, the 8th Arkansas Infantry Battalion was assigned to Brigadier General

William L. Cabell's brigade of Brigadier General Dabney H. Maury's Division of Major General Sterling Price's 1st Corps the Confederate (Army of the West
).

Battle of Farmington
, May 9, 1862.
Battle of Iuka, September 19, 1862[3]
Siege of Corinth, April to June 1862.
Battle of Corinth, October 3–4, 1862
Siege of Port Hudson, May to July, 1863[4]

Surrender

The portion of the 8th Arkansas Infantry Battalion that became consolidated with 12th Arkansas Infantry Regiment, 18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment, 23rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment and the 12th Arkansas Infantry Battalion to form the 2nd Arkansas Consolidated Infantry Regiment which was surrendered along with the rest of the Department of the Trans Mississippi by General Kirby Smith on May 26, 1865, at Marshall, Texas. Other former members appear on parole lists of the unit surrendered at Wittsburg and Jacksonport, Arkansas, in May and June 1865.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d Howerton, Bryan, "8th Arkansas Infantry Battalion", Edward G. Gerdes Civil War Page, Accessed 15 September 2011, http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/8bathis.html
  2. ^ a b Edward G. Gerdes Civil War Page, The Peyton Rifles, Accessed February 4, 2011, "Peytonri". Archived from the original on 2010-07-01. Retrieved 2011-01-20.
  3. ^ National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System Archived 2001-07-14 at archive.today, Confederate Arkansas Troops, 8th Battalion, Arkansas Infantry, Accessed 27 January 2011
  4. , page 84.

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