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An order was signed by Brigadier General William Hardee ordering the Desha's 7th Arkansas Battalion to consolidate with Colonel Kelly's 8th Arkansas Infantry Regiment. [4] Some sources indicate the men of the 7th Battalion were very upset with the consolidation and at least one company threatened to mutiny. [10]
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.
Brigadier General, Missouri State Guard Colonel, Confederate States Army Son of explorer William Clark. USMA, 1830. Resigned as 2nd Lieutenant, U.S. Army, May 31, 1833. Missouri legislator. Missouri militia major of Artillery, July 1, 1846–June 24, 1847. Brigadier general, Missouri State Guard, 9th Division, May 18, 1861–resigned April 1862.
Alan Walter Jones Sr. was born in Goldendale, Washington [1] [2] on October 6, 1894, [1] [3] a son of Jessie M. Jones and Milton S Jones. [4] He was raised in Walla Walla, Washington, and attended Whitman College [5] and the University of Washington. [6]
Robert Glenn Shaver (April 18, 1831 – January 13, 1915) [2] was an American lawyer, militia leader, and 3 star colonel in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, serving in several key battles in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
James Haggin McBride (c. 1814 – March 1864) was an American businessman, lawyer, banker, judge, legislator, and soldier. He served as a Confederate Missouri militia general during the American Civil War, later dying in the conflict from pneumonia in 1864 after being appointed a Colonel in the Confederate States Army, in which he was too ill to actively serve.
Charles Albert Varnum (June 21, 1849 – February 26, 1936) was a career United States Army officer. He was most noted as the commander of the scouts for George Armstrong Custer in the Little Bighorn Campaign (of which he was the last of the surviving officers to die of natural causes) during the Great Sioux War, as well as receiving the Medal of Honor for his actions in a conflict at Drexel ...
Woodruff was assigned as the Chief of Artillery to Major General D. M. Frost's Division. Woodruff's Artillery Battalion at this time was composed of Etter's Battery, Marshall's Battery, and Blocher's Arkansas Batteries, Tildent and Ruffner's Missouri Batteries, and Edgar's Texas Battery. This spring encampment was the only time during the war ...