Arkansas Civil War Union Units

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The information in this list of Arkansas Military Units comes from the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors web site (CWSS). That web site can also be searched by the name of a soldier.


 * 1st Battery, Arkansas Light Artillery (Union) Organized at Fayetteville, Arkansas, and Springfield, Missouri, January to August, 1863. Action at Prior Creek September 18, 1864. Mustered out August 10, 1864.


 * 1st Battery, Arkansas Light Artillery (African Descent) (Union) (see: archives.com-unit history)


 * 1st Battalion, Arkansas Infantry (6 months, 1862) (Union) Organized at Helena, Ark., July 20, 1862. Duty at Benton Barracks, Missouri, until December. Mustered out December 31, 1862.


 * 1st Regiment, Arkansas Cavalry (Union) Organized at Cassville and Springfield, Missouri, June to August, 1862. Mustered in at Springfield, Missouri, August 7, 1862. Skirmish near Van Buren April 2, 1865. Mustered out August 20, 1865.


 * 1st Regiment, Arkansas Infantry (Union) Organized at Fayetteville, Arkansas, and mustered in March 25, 1863. Mustered out August 10, 1865.


 * 2nd Regiment, Arkansas Cavalry (Union) Organized at Helena, Arkansas, and Pilot Knob, Missouri, July 1862. Ordered to Memphis, Tennessee, January, 1865. Duty there and in District of West Tennessee until August. Mustered out August 20, 1865.


 * 2nd Regiment, Arkansas Infantry (Union) Organized at Springfield, Missouri, and Fort Smith, Arkansas, October, 1863, to March, 1864. Moved to Clarksville December 31, and duty there and at Fort Smith until August. Mustered out August 8, 1865.


 * 2nd Regiment, Arkansas Infantry (African Descent) (Union) (archives.com - Fold 3)


 * 3rd Regiment, Arkansas Cavalry (Union) Organized at Little Rock, Arkansas, February, 1864. Mustered out August 20, 1865.


 * 3rd Regiment, Arkansas Infantry (African Descent) (Union)


 * 3rd Regiment, Arkansas Infantry (Union) Organization not completed.


 * 4th Regiment, Arkansas Cavalry (Union) Organized at Little Rock December, 1863. Mustered out June 30, 1865.


 * 4th Regiment, Arkansas Infantry (Union) Organized at Batesville and Fort Smith, Arkansas, January to May, 1864, and served in various places. Moved to Fort Smith May 18, 1864, and duty there until October. Organization not completed and Regiment transferred to 2nd Arkansas Infantry October 28, 1864.


 * 4th Regiment, Arkansas Infantry (African Descent) (Union) Organized at Devall's Bluff, Little Rock and helena, Arkansas, December 2, 1863, Designation changed to 57th U.s. Colored Troops, March 11, 1864.


 * 5th Regiment, Arkansas Infantry (African Descent) (Union) See 112th United States Colored Troops


 * 6th Regiment, Arkasas Infantry (African Descent) (Union) See 113th United States Colored Troops