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In late December, Confederate troops had captured the Union supply steamer Blue Wing 8 miles (13 km) downriver from Napoleon, Arkansas, and sent it back to Arkansas Post. [34] Sherman heard of the raid, and believed that more raids from the position at Arkansas Post were likely.
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.
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 24th Arkansas Infantry (1861–1865) was a Confederate Army infantry regiment during the American Civil War.The unit began its service in the Department of the Trans-Mississippi, but the bulk of the unit was captured at the Battle of Arkansas Post and shipped to Northern prison camps.
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 This article incorporates public domain material from Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System. National Park Service
The 7th Arkansas Volunteer Infantry (1861−1865) was a Confederate Army infantry regiment during the American Civil War.Organized mainly from companies, including several prewar volunteer militia companies, raised in northeastern Arkansas, the regiment was among the first transferred to Confederate service, and spent virtually the entire war serving east of the Mississippi River.
The 6th Arkansas by that time was consolidated with the 7th Arkansas. Research shows the flag at that time was a "white moon on a blue field". [25] The 5th/13th Arkansas flag was one of five captured by the 88th Illinois at the Battle of Franklin, and none were forwarded to the War Department.
Confederate forces in Arkansas were directed from Washington, where the Confederate government of the state relocated after the fall of Little Rock. [36] In support of General Steele's movements toward Arkadelphia, Arkansas, Union Colonel Powell Clayton, stationed at Pine Bluff, decided to conduct an attack Colonel Dockery's forces at Monticello.