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The Agar gun can be classified as a multiple-chamber, single-barrel design. In this classification scheme, it is in the same category as the much better known revolver cannons, still in use today. The Agar gun's hopper is in fact the only multiple-chamber configuration other than the ubiquitous revolver to have been used in practice. [5]
While smoothbore siege artillery had been common previously, the superiority of rifled guns in destroying fortifications saw them dominate during the Civil War. Early examples of siege artillery include the 4.5-inch siege rifle and James rifles. These were joined by larger versions of Parrott rifles and Blakely rifles.
General Hardee took the 9th Arkansas Battalion with him when he transferred his command to Kentucky and organized the Confederate Army of Central Kentucky.When Hardee's command was attached to forces under Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston, The 9th Arkansas Infantry Battalion, under the command of Major Kelly was assigned to Brigadier General S.A.M. Wood's brigade of Hardee's Corps ...
The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture; 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; REBECCA STIRMAN DAVIDSON This article incorporates public domain material from Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System.
These men were later released and exchanged in Arkansas and many would later join Poe's Arkansas Cavalry Battalion [6] or Logan's Arkansas Cavalry Regiment. [7] In November 1863 Colonel John Logan was transferred from command of the 11th/17th Arkansas back west of the Mississippi River and Col. John Griffith was given command of the brigade ...
The action at Ashley's Station was fought between Confederate cavalry under Brigadier-General Joseph O. Shelby and the Union Army garrison under the command of Brigadier-General Christopher Andrews and Colonels Greenville M. Mitchell and Washington F. Geiger in Prairie County, Arkansas on August 24, 1864 during the American Civil War.
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Col. E. L. Vaughan. The 10th Arkansas Infantry (1861–1865) was a Confederate Army infantry regiment during the American Civil War from the state of Arkansas.The unit is also known as A. R. Witt's Infantry, C. M. Cargile's Infantry, E. L. Vaughan's Infantry, Thomas D. Merrick's Infantry, S. S. Ford's Infantry, Obed Patty's Infantry, George A. Merrick's Infantry, Zebulon Venable's Infantry and ...