Major General James G. Blunt

Arkansas Confederate Cavalry

Arkansas mounted units during the civil war consisted of three types, Cavalry, Mounted Infantry, and Partisan Rangers. Cavalry forces fought principally on horseback, armed with carbines, pistols, and especially sabers. Only a small percentage of Arkansas mounted forces met this definition.[1] Some Arkansas Confederate regiments carried shotguns, especially early in the war. Due to a lack of appropriate weapons and training in actual cavalry tactics, most Arkansas horsesoldiers were actually Mounted Infantry. Mounted Infantry moved on horseback but dismounted for fighting on foot, armed principally with rifles. In the second half of the war, most of the units considered to be cavalry actually fought battles using the tactics of mounted infantry. Irregular forces (partisan rangers or guerrillas) were generally mounted forces. There is little commonality as to their weapons—in general, any available were used.[1]

While the concept of a mounted infantry force able to move quickly from point to point and fight as infantry seemed appealing, especially to new recruits, it proved to come at significant costs. Logistically a mounted force was much more costly to sustain and the units themselves tended to be less effective in the actual war effort than standard infantry formations.[2]

Due to severe drought in Arkansas in 1862 and 1863, forage for horses became increasing scares and led to calls from multiple Confederate commanders to dismount the mounted units. Multiple Confederate commanders lamented the fact that the country had been "eaten out" by cavalry. General Hindman at one point stated:

cavalry duty could be performed by the independent companies of the Provost Marshall just as well and cheaper than the worthless, marauding, eating hordes of cavalry wandering the area.[2]

Mounted infantry, while theoretically more maneuverable, were in practice less disciplined and less reliable than the standard infantry formation. Confederate commanders, especially in the Department of the Trans-Mississippi regularly bemoaned the fact that most recruits wanted to "jine the cavalry" as opposed to infantry.[3] Confederate commanders often suggested dismounting cavalry and mounted infantry units in order to man infantry units and this happened to several Arkansas units that served in the Army of Tennessee.[2]

I respectfully request that the department commander refuse all further recruiting for cavalry at once. So long as it is permitted it will be impossible to raise an infantry force which is so much needed now and the present cavalry force is more than ample to eat out all the forage of the country I should be pleased to have a cavalry regiment if it could be obtained but I have seen none throughout the war -I have not seen a cavalry officer who was a sufficient swordsmen to unfix a bayonet nor a single private who could go thru the manual of the saber nor have I seen on this side of the Mississippi 20 privates who were armed with the saber. Very few have carbines or saddle holsters for pistols and still less with the necessary dragoon equipments. If the C.S.A. is unable to furnish cavalry armed educated and equipped as above I am strongly of the opinion that all with shotguns and rifles in their hands should be dismounted excepting enough for scout and picket duty and put the remainder in the line as infantry.....[4]

The continued organization of more and more mounted units, and the retention of so many others, in the Department of the Trans-Mississippi seem to defy prevailing military wisdom. The last standard infantry regiment formed in Arkansas during the war was the 39th Arkansas Infantry Regiment, formed in 1862. After 1862 all new organizations were mounted infantry.[2]

List of Cavalry Regiments

Cavalry regiments were organized from companies (also called, "troops") authorized at up to 100 men, ten companies made up a regiment. Two or more companies might be organized into a battalion (also called a "squadron").

Regiment Organization Date Commanders Alternated designations
1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles June 16, 1861 Colonel Thomas J. Churchill

Colonel Daniel H. Reynolds

Colonel Robert W. Harper[5]

1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles (Consolidated)
1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles (Consolidated)[6] April 9, 1865 Colonel Henry G. Bunn 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles

2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles

4th Arkansas Infantry Regiment.

4th Arkansas Infantry Regiment.

31st Arkansas Infantry Regiment.

9th Arkansas Infantry Regiment.

9th Arkansas Infantry Regiment.

25th Arkansas Infantry Regiment.

1st Arkansas Cavalry Regiment (Crawford's)[7] December 30, 1863 Colonel William A. Crawford[8] 10th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment

Crawford's Arkansas Cavalry Regiment[9]

1st Arkansas Cavalry Regiment (Dobbin's) Spring 1863 Colonel Archibald S. Dobbins

Major Samuel Corley

Dobbins's Brigade

Chrisman's Cavalry Battalion[10]

1st Arkansas Cavalry Regiment (Monroe's)[11] September 1862 Colonel James Fleming Fagan

Colonel James Cade Monroe[10][12]

6th Regiment Arkansas Cavalry,

4th Arkansas Cavalry,

1st Trans-Mississippi Cavalry

2nd Arkansas Cavalry Regiment (Slemons's) 15 May 1862 Colonel William Ferguson Slemons[8][12]

Lt. Col T. W. Jackman[13]

2nd Arkansas Cavalry Battalion

6th Arkansas Cavalry Battalion

4th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment

18th Arkansas Cavalry Battalion

2nd Arkansas Cavalry Regiment (Morgan's)[11][8][12] December 24, 1863 Colonel Thomas J. Morgan 5th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment

Newton's Regiment Arkansas Cavalry,

Morgan's Regiment Arkansas Cavalry,

2nd Arkansas Cavalry Regiment,

8th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment,

2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles July 29, 1861 Colonel James M. McIntosh

Colonel Benjamin T. Embry

Colonel Harris Flanagin

Lieutenant Colonel James A. Williamson[5]

1st Consolidated Mounted Rifles
3rd Arkansas Cavalry Regiment June 10, 1861 (State Service)

July 29, 1863 (Confederate Service)

Colonel Solon Borland

Colonel Samuel G. Earle

Colonel Anson W. Hobson

Lieutenant Colonel M. J. Henderson.[14]

1st Arkansas Cavalry Battalion
4th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment December 15, 1863 Colonel Anderson Gordon[8]

Colonel Charles A. Carroll[15]

Colonel Lee L. Thomson

Gordon's Arkansas Cavalry Regiment[9]

2nd (Gordon's) Arkansas Cavalry Regiment

9th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment

11th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment

1st Arkansas Cavalry Regiment (Carrolls)

5th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment April 1863 Colonel Robert C. Newton 2nd Arkansas Cavalry Regiment (Morgan's)
6th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment 1st Arkansas Cavalry Regiment (Monroe's)

1st Arkansas Cavalry Regiment (Fagan's)

7th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment July 25, 1863 Colonel John F. Hill Hill's Cavalry Battalion

Hill's Arkansas Cavalry Regiment[9]

8th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment December 24, 1863 Colonel Thomas J. Morgan Newton's Regiment Arkansas Cavalry,

Morgan's Regiment Arkansas Cavalry,

2nd Arkansas Cavalry Regiment;

5th Regiment Arkansas Cavalry.

9th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment December 15, 1863 Colonel Anderson Gordon 4th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment
10th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment (Witt's) Summer 1864 Colonel Allen R. Witt 10th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
10th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment (Newton's) October 31, 1864 Colonel Robert C. Newton 3rd Regiment of Arkansas State Cavalry
11th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment[16][17] 1864 Colonel John L. Logan[18] 11th Arkansas Infantry Regiment

Logan's Arkansas Cavalry Regiment[17]

11th and 17th Consolidated Arkansas Infantry Regiment

12th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment February 15, 1864 Colonel John C. Wright 2nd Cavalry Battalion, Arkansas State Troops

Wright's Arkansas Cavalry Regiment[9]

13th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment[19] Unknown Colonel James J. Clarkson Clarkson's Battalion Confederate Cavalry (Independent Rangers)
16th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment[20] December 4, 1861 Colonel John F. Hill

Colonel David Provence

16th Arkansas Infantry Regiment[21]
17th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment[20] Colonel John L. Logan

Colonel John Griffith

11th and 17th Consolidated Arkansas Infantry Regiment
23rd Arkansas Cavalry Regiment[22] Summer 1864 Colonel Oliver P. Lyles[23] 42nd Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Mounted)

23rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Mounted)[24]

44th Arkansas Infantry (Mounted) Summer 1864 Colonel James H. McGehee[25]

Lieutenant Colonel Jessup Grider[13]

29th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment[26]

McGehee's Arkansas Cavalry

45th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment Summer 1864 Colonel Milton D. Baber

Colonel James W. Clark[23]

45th Arkansas Mounted Infantry[27][12]

Shaver's Cavalry[28]

46th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment Summer 1864 Colonel Crabtree

Colonel W. O. Coleman [13]

46th Arkansas Infantry[29]

Crabtree's Arkansas Cavalry[30]

Coleman's Arkansas Cavalry Regiment

47th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment Summer 1864 Colonel Lee Cradall[12]

Lieutenant Colonel Richard M. Davis[23]

47th Arkansas Mounted Infantry[31]
48th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment[32] Summer 1864 Unknown 48th Arkansas Infantry[33]

48th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment

Brandenburch's Arkansas Cavalry Regiment [34] 1862 Captain Solomon I. Brandenburg Brandenburch's Company[35]
Carlton's Arkansas Cavalry Regiment[36] Colonel Charles H. Carlton

Lieutenant Colonel R. H. Thompson

Carlton's Arkansas Cavalry Battalion [37]

28th Arkansas Cavalry[38]

List of Cavalry Battalions

Battalion Organization Date Commanders Alternated designations
1st Arkansas Cavalry Battalion (Borlands)[39] April 1861 Colonel Solon Borland 3rd Arkansas Cavalry Regiment
1st Arkansas Cavalry Battalion (Stirman's) 1861 Major William H. Brooks

Colonel Erasmus J. Stirman[40]

1st Arkansas Cavalry Battalion (Brooks')

1st (Stirman's) Battalion Sharpshooters

Stirman’s Regiment of Sharpshooters

1st Battalion, Arkansas Reserve Cavalry[41] 1864 Lieut. Col. Henry D. Flippin Flippin's Battalion of "Home Guards",

Flippin's battalion

2nd Arkansas Cavalry Battalion April 1862 Major William D. Barnett[42] 2nd Arkansas Cavalry Regiment (Slemons's)
3rd Arkansas Cavalry Battalion[43] April 20, 1864 Lieutenant Colonel Thomas M. Gunter[25] Gunther's Arkansas Cavalry Battalion[8][9]
6th Arkansas Cavalry Battalion[44] August 1861 Major Charles W. Phifer 1st Arkansas Cavalry Battalion

Phifer’s Arkansas Cavalry Battalion

White’s Arkansas Cavalry Battalion

McNeill’s Arkansas Cavalry Battalion

13th Arkansas Cavalry Battalion[45] August 1, 1862 James McCarney O’Neill 1st Arkansas Cavalry Regiment (Monroe's)
15th Arkansas Cavalry Battalion[46] September 20, 1863 Lieutenant Colonel Michael W. Buster Buster's Arkansas Cavalry Battalion

Clarkson's Cavalry Battalion, Independent Rangers [47]

16th Arkansas Cavalry Battalion 1864 Major James L. Witherspoon Witherspoon's Arkansas Cavalry Battalion[25]

13th Arkansas Cavalry Battalion

17th Arkansas Cavalry Battalion March 17, 1863 Lieutenant Colonel John M. Harrell Harrell's Arkansas Cavalry Battalion[9][48]

Harrell's Battalion Arkansas State Troops[49]

Crawford's Arkansas Cavalry Battalion[50]

18th Arkansas Cavalry Battalion September 1864 Lieutenant Colonel Elisha Lawley McMurtrey[49]

[51]

2nd Arkansas Cavalry Regiment (Slemons's)

McMurtrey's Arkansas Cavalry Battalion[9][52]

Anderson's Arkansas Cavalry Battalion September 18, 1864 Captain William L. Anderson [25]
Chrisman's Arkansas Cavalry Battalion[10] September 28, 1862 Major Francis M. Chrisman 1st Arkansas Cavalry Regiment (Dobbin's)
Crawford's Arkansas Cavalry Battalion March 1863 Major William A. Crawford[53] 17th Arkansas Cavalry Battalion.
Davies' Arkansas Cavalry Battalion [54] 1864 Lieutenant Colonel J. F. Davies 14th Missouri Cavalry Battalion

7th Missouri Cavalry Regiment

Ford's Arkansas Cavalry Battalion August 27, 1864.[55] Lieutenant Colonel Barney Ford[25] Ford’s Missouri Battalion
Gipson's Mounted Rifles Battalion [56] July 1862 Major William Gipson Gipson's Cavalry Regiment Mounted Rifles
Hill's Arkansas Cavalry Battalion April 1863 Colonel John F. Hill[25] 7th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment[57]
Nave's Arkansas Cavalry Battalion [58] April 1865 Major R. H. Nave
Poe's Arkansas Cavalry Battalion[59] December 1863 Major J. T. Poe[49] 11th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
Rogan's Arkansas Cavalry Battalion Summer of 1862 Colonel James W. Rogan[25] 30th Arkansas Infantry Regiment Mounted
Thompson's Arkansas Cavalry Battalion Colonel Lee L. Thompson Thompson's Arkansas Cavalry Regiment[60]

Carroll's Arkansas Cavalry [61]

Woosley's Arkansas Cavalry Battalion[62] Spring 1864 James Woosley Gunther's Arkansas Cavalry Battalion

Orphan Arkansas cavalry units listed on the National Park Service Soldiers and Sailor System

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. The facts about the soldiers are indexed to many millions of other documents about Union and Confederate Civil War soldiers maintained by the National Archives and Records Administration. The information includes: histories of regiments in both the Union and Confederate Armies, links to descriptions of significant battles of the war, and other historical information. The site currently includes regimental histories of units from 44 states and territories. Joseph Crute's Units of the Confederate Army is the primary source for Confederate unit histories on the site.[63] Because the list of units was compiled over thirty years after the war, from very fragmentary records collected by the United States War Department, some units are misidentified, some being listed as regiments that may in fact have only been a company, such as Brandenburch's Arkansas Cavalry Regiment,[35] which in fact was actually composed of one independent cavalry company surrendered at the battle of Arkansas Post. Several Missouri units are miss-identified as Arkansas Confederate units, such as "Coffee's Arkansas Cavalry Regiment", which is actually the 6th Missouri Cavalry.[64] The site contains several alleged Arkansas Confederate units for which no other information exists other than short list of names, probably developed from prisoner of war rosters. Most of these units have less than six identified unit members. Several have only one identified unit member. The following units have no published history and may not have actually been Arkansas Confederate units:

Regiment Organization Date Commanders Alternated designations
Armstrong's Arkansas Cavalry Regiment[65] Possibly 1860[66] Possibly Captain Lynas Armstrong Possibly Company C, 1st Cavalry Regiment, Arkansas State Troops
Dan's Arkansas Cavalry Regiment[67] Unknown Unknown
Fitzhugh's Arkansas Cavalry Regiment[68] Unknown Unknown
Hindman's Arkansas Cavalry Regiment[69] Unknown Unknown
Leve's Arkansas Cavalry Regiment[70] Unknown Unknown
Rutherford's Arkansas Cavalry Regiment[71] July 1862[72] Possibly Captain George B. Rutherford Possibly Company D, 1st Arkansas Cavalry Regiment (Dobbin's)
Pall's Arkansas Cavalry Battalion[73] Unknown Unknown
Weber's Arkansas Cavalry Regiment[74] Unknown Possibly Captain A. V. Weber Possibly Company A, Carlton's Arkansas Cavalry Regiment[75]
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