- Confederate Army
Following (hosted at Couch GenWeb)- Adams’ Regiment Arkansas Infantry
- Borland Regiment
- Battle of Marks Mill
- Crawford’s Arkansas Infantry Battalion
- First Battalion Arkansas Infantry
- 1st Arkansas Infantry
- 2nd Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- 2nd Arkansas Infantry Battalion CSA
- 3rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment CSA
- McNair’s 4th Arkansas Regiment – CSA
- 4th Battalion Arkansas Infantry
- 3rd Consolidated Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- 5th Arkansas Infantry Regiment CSA
- 6th Infantry Regiment CSA
- Shaver’s 7th Regiment
- 8th Arkansas Infantry Battalion, CSA
- 8th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- 10th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- 11th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- 17th (Griffith’s) Arkansas
- 12th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- 14th (Powers) Arkansas Infantry Regiment CSA
- 15th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- 15th (Josey’s) Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- 15th (Northwest) Arkansas Infantry
- 16th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- 17th (Lemoyne’s) Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- 17th (Griffith’s) Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- Marmadukes (18th) Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- 19th (Dawson’s) Arkansas Inf. Regiment
- 19th AR Inf. Regt. – Not Dawson’s or Dockery’s
- 19th (Dckery’s) Arkansas Infantry Regt.
- Rapley’s Sharpshooters 12th Arkansas Battalion, CSA
- Cocke’s Regimet of Arkansas Infantry
- 13th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- 14th (McCarver’s) Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- 15th (Johnson’s) Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- 18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment, CSA
- 20th Regiment Arkansas Infantry
- 21st (McCarver’s Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- The 23rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- The 24th Infantry Regiment CSA
- Hardy’s Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- The 25th Arkansas Infantry Regiment Companies
- 26th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- 27th Arkansas Infantry
- The 30th Arkansas Infantry Regiment Companies
- Thirty-first Regiment Arkansas Infantry
- 32nd Arkansas Infantry Regiment CSA
- 33rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- 34th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- Stoddard Co. Rangers and Infantry Co. D.
- Willson’s Arkansas Infantry Battalion
- First Arkansas Consolidated Infantry CSA
- 35th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- 36th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- 37th (Bell’s) Arkansas Infantry Regiment
- 38th Infantry
- 40th Tennessee Infantry Regt.
- The First Confederate Mounted Rifle
- Dobbin’s 1st Arkansas Cavalry, CSA
- Anderson’s Unattached Cavalry Battalion
- Carlton’s Arkansas Cavalry Battalion
- 1st Arkansas Cavalry Regiment
- 4th (Gordon’s) Arkansas Cavalry Regiment, CSA
- 1st Battalion (Stirman’s)Arkansas Cavalry CSA
- 2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifels, SCA
- The Second Arkansas Cavalry Battalion, CSA
- 3rd Regiment Arkansas Cavalry, CSA
- Crawford’s 1st/10th Arkansas Cavalry, CSA
- Monroes 1st/6th Arkansas Cavalry
- 6th Battalion Arkansas Cavalry
- 7th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment
- The 8th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment
- 7th Missouri Cavalry CSA
- 10th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment company C.
- 11th Arkansas Cavalry, CSA
- 15th (Buster’s) Battalion Arkansas Cavalry
- 29th Arkansas Confederate Cavalry
- 45th Cavalry
- The 46th Arkansas Confederate Cavalry
- 47th (Crandall’s) Arkansas Cavalry Regiment
- 48Th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment
- Davies Battalion Arkansas Cavalry CSA
- Fords Battalion Arkansas Cavalry – Company CJackson County
- Freeman’s Regiment Missouri Cavalry
- Fristoe’s Regiment Missouri Cavalry
- Gipson Battalion Mounted Rifles CSA
- Hicks Independent Cavalry Company
- Harrell’s Battalion, Arkansas Cavalry CSA
- Nave’s Battallion – Arkansas Cavalry CSA
- McGehee’s Regiment – Arkansas Cavalry CSA
- Poes Battlion – Arkansas Cavalry CSA
- The Pope Walker Guards Cavalry of Crawford Co. Arkansas
- The Pulaski Lancers
- Quantrill’s Partisan Rangers
- Sebastian County Cavalry
- Witherspoon’s Battlion – Arkansas Cavalry CSA
- 10th (Witt’s Arkansas Cavalry Regiment
- Wrights 12th Arkansas Cavalry, CSA.
- 1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery Battalion- Battery A
- Blocher’s Arkansas Battery
- The Organization of the Artillery in 1864
- Jackson Light Artillery (Thrall’s Battery)
- Clark County Artillery (Wiggins’ Battery) Second Arkansas Light Artillery
- The Crawford County Artillery
- Helena Artillery (Keys Battery)
- Marshall’s Battery – Ark Light Artillery
- Monticello Artillery (Owen’s Battery)
- Pine Bluff Artillery (Steck’s Battery)
- Dallas Artillery (Harts Battery) Second Arkansas Field Battery
- Pulaski Light Artillery
- First Arkansas Light Artillery (Rivers Battery)
- Washington Artillery (Etters Battery)
- Abraham’s Company Mounted Volunteers
- 1st Cavalry State Troops
- Earnests Company, Local Defense- Montgomery Co
- Company H, 23rd Regiment Arkansas Volunteers
- The Honored 600 of Morris Island
- 5th Arkansas Infantry, State Troops
- 21st Regiment Arkansas Militia – White County
- Reiff’s Mounted Company – Arkansas State Troops
- The Hempstead Rifles -Arkansas State Troops
- Jackson’s Co (A), Burbridge’s Regt (4th MO) Cavalry P.A.C. of North Sub District
- Calhoun County Yellow Jackets
- Larkin Bunch’s Company – State Troups
- Pettus Battalion Arkansas State Troops-Sevier County
- Pope County Home Guard
- The Sevier County Stars – Arkansas State Troops
- Spark’s company (60days 1862)
- Van Buren Frontier Guards Arkansas State Troops
- The Napoleon Grays of Desha County
- The Desha Rangers
- The McCulloch Rangers of Conway County
- The Napoleon Rifles of Desha County
- The Richland Rangers – Company D, CSA
- Confederate Muster – Conway Co. AR
- The Peyton Rifles of Little Rock
- The Border Rangers -White County, Arkansas
- Ashley County Home Guard-1863.-Captain Benjamin Tiner
- First Arkansas Regiment, 30-Day Volunteers, CSA
- 2nd Arkansas Regiment, 30-Day Volunteers, CSA
- Clayton’s Company, 30-Day Volunteers, CSA
- The Invincible Guards of Magnolia, Columbia County Arkansas
- Jackson Light Artillery (Thrall’s Battery)
- Ballard’s Company, 30-Day Volunteers, CSA
- Baker’s Company 30-Day Volunteers, CSA
- Chicot Rangers – Chicot County
- The Crittenden Rangers
- Reve’s Mounted Company, 30-Day Volunteers, CSA
- Dowd’s Company, State Troops Marion County, Arkansas
- The Davis Blues-Arkansas State Troops
- 4th Arkansas Infantry Regiment, State Troops
- 5th Regiment Arkansas Militia – Crawford County
- 7th Regiment Arkansas Militia -Franklin County, Arkansas
- 10th Regiment Arkansas Militia (Johnson County)
- 13th Arkansas Militia-CSA
- 15th Regiment Arkansas Militia – Pope County
- 45th Regiment Arkansas Militia – Searcy County
- 50th Arkansas Militia
- 51st Arkansas Militia Regiment
- 58th Regiment Arkansas Militia – Logan County
- 62nd Arkansas Militia
- Clear Lake Independent Guards
- Huthchison’s Company – Davis Blues (4th Regt) Arkansas Vol.
- Independence County Home Guard1861
- Pike Guards-Arkansas State Troops
- Prairie County Home Guard1861
- Tumlinsons Independent Company Cavalry
- Monticello Home Guard
- Little Rock Provost Guard-Capt John D. Willett
- Hookers Company, 30-Day Volunteers, CSA
- The Booneville Rifles – Company A
- Union County Home Guard
- The Yell Rifles – Arkansas State Troops
- 1st Arkansas Infantry Regiment – History, Company G, Officers
- 4th Arkansas Infantry – Roster
- C Company, 4th Arkansas Infantry – Roster (hosted at Arkansas Civil War )
- 10th (Merrick’s) Arkansas Infantry Regiment – History, partial muster (hosted at Arkansas Civil War )
- 10th (Witt’s) Arkansas Cavalry Regiment – History, partial muster
- Company I, 33rd Arkansas Infantry – Roster
- 1st Arkansas Infantry Regiment – History, Company G, Officers (hosted at Arkansas Civil War )
- 4th Arkansas Infantry , Roster (hosted at Arkansas Civil War )
Union Army
- 1st Regiment Cavalry (hosted at Arkansas Civil War )
- 3rd Regiment Cavalry (hosted at Arkansas Civil War )
- 4th Regiment Cavalry (hosted at Arkansas Civil War )
- 1st Battery Light Artillery (hosted at Arkansas Civil War )
- 1st Battery Light Artillery (African Descent) (hosted at Arkansas Civil War )
- 1st Regiment Infantry (hosted at Arkansas Civil War )
- 1st Battalion Infantry (hosted at Arkansas Civil War )
- 1st Regiment Infantry (African Descent) (hosted at Arkansas Civil War )
- 2nd Regiment Infantry (hosted at Arkansas Civil War )
- 2nd Regiment Infantry (African Descent) (hosted at Arkansas Civil War )
- 3rd Regiment Infantry (hosted at Arkansas Civil War )
- 3rd Regiment Infantry (African Descent) (hosted at Arkansas Civil War )
- 4th Regiment Infantry (hosted at Arkansas Civil War )
- 4th Regiment Infantry (African Descent) (hosted at Arkansas Civil War )
- 5th Regiment Infantry (African Descent) (hosted at Arkansas Civil War )
- 6th Regiment Infantry (African Descent) (hosted at Arkansas Civil War )
- Cemeteries
- Arkansas Confederate and Union Soldiers Burial Places (hosted at Couch GenWeb)
- Finn’s Point National, and Philadelphia National Cemeteries (hosted at Couch GenWeb)
- Fayetteville Arkansas Cemetery (hosted at Couch GenWeb)
- Rock Island Prison Camp, Arkansas Soldiers (hosted at Couch GenWeb)
- Confederate Dead at Canton Mississippi (hosted at RootsWeb Madison County Mississippi )
- Camp Chase Cemetery
- Alton Prison, lists 290 Arkansas Soldiers (hosted AltonWeb)
Looking for information on Jonathan Anderson Wilson. His headstone says Bryant’s Arkansas BN CSA. I’m understand he lost a leg during the civil war. Would like to know what battles he participated in and possibly the Colors his BN or Regiment carried. He is my 5th Great Uncle.
I, too, am looking for a Wilson, a “Captian Wilson”, who was allegedly killed at Carrollton, Arkansas in Aug of 1864. I am finding that many of the “killed” were false reports. I have no first name and only a rank. Wilson was CSA and probably a Militia or Home Guard. I will add Jonathan Anderson Wilson to my search list. Will advise if I have information, would request that you so humor me.
Regards,
John Cantwell
jcantwell@hotmail.com
I’m trying to find information about my great-grandfather, Thomas Jefferson Potter. According to census records and family stories, he was born 8 Feb 1844 and grew up on a farm in Pulaski County, AR. A family story is that he said he was talked by his stepmother into joining the Confederate military in place of her son, who was about five years older. He served first in the Confederate infantry, and was captured by Union troops. He was released (the story goes) because he agreed to join the Union army, and he served in the Union army for the remainder of the war. He suffered a leg injury gathering wood while in prison camp, which ulcerated and finally killed him at the age of 48.
The problem is, the records I find for him don’t match the story. I haven’t been able to find him on any lists of prisoners of war.
Here’s what I did find:
U.S.\u002C Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records\u002C 1861-1865
Name Thomas J Potter
Enlistment Date 1862
Military Unit Twelfth Infantry (Eighth Infantry, Young’s Regiment)
U.S. Civil War Soldiers\u002C 1861-1865
Name Thomas J. Potter
Side Confederate
Regiment State/Origin Texas
Regiment 12th Regiment, Texas Infantry (Young’s) Company D
Rank In Private
Rank Out Private
Film Number M227 roll 29
Other Records 12th Regiment, Texas Infantry (Young’s)
“The 12th Texas Infantry Regiment was led by Colonel Overton C. Young and thus also known as Young’s Regiment. The regiment was assigned to Brigadier General Thomas Neville Waul’s [First] Brigade of Major John George Walker’s Texas [Greyhound] Division, Trans-Mississippi Department. The regiment saw action in March-May 1864 in Louisiana [the Red River Campaign] and Arkansas [the Camden Expedition]. Some men are known to have fought at the battle at Corinth, Mississippi.” [Wikipedia]
But by the time of the Red River Campaign, Thomas was already in the Union army.
U.S. Civil War Soldiers\u002C 1861-1865
Name Thomas J. or Thomas Potter
Side Union
Regiment State/Origin Arkansas
Regiment 4th Regiment, Arkansas Infantry
Company A
Rank In Private
Rank Out Private
Film Number M383 roll 3
Other Records 4th Regiment, Arkansas Infantry
U.S. Civil War Soldiers\u002C 1861-1865
Name Thomas J. Potter
Side Union
Regiment State/Origin Arkansas
Regiment 2nd Regiment, Arkansas Infantry
Company I
Rank In Private
Rank Out Private
Film Number M383 roll 3
Other Records 2nd Regiment, Arkansas Infantry
U.S.\u002C Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles\u002C 1861-1865
Name Thomas J Potter
Residence Little Rock, Arkansas
Age at enlistment 19
Enlistment Date 31 Mar 1864
Rank at enlistment Private
Enlistment Place Little Rock, Arkansas
State Served Arkansas
Survived the War? Yes
Service Record Enlisted in Company A, Arkansas 4th Infantry Regiment on 31 Mar 1864. Mustered out on 28 Oct 1864.
Transferred to Company I, Arkansas 2nd Infantry Regiment on 28 Oct 1864.
Birth Date abt 1845
Sources Index to Compiled Military Service Records Official Army Register of the Volunteer Force 1861-1865 2nd Arkansas Union Infantry – Arkansas Research 4th Arkansas Union Infantry – Arkansas Research
1890 Veterans Schedules
Veteran’s name Thomas J Potter
Home in 1890 (Township, County, State) Precinct 5, Milam, Texas
Year enlisted 1864
Year discharged 1865
Rank Private
U.S.\u002C Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files\u002C 1861-1934
Name Thomas J Potter
Gender Male
Place Filed Texas, USA
Relation to Head Soldier
Spouse Nancy J Potter
Household Members
Thomas J Potter
Nancy J Potter
1880 Jun 30: Application # 39706, Certificate # 664034
1892 July 18: Widow’s app #555158, Certificate #378845
I haven’t been able to find Thomas on any rosters online for the Eleventh or Twelfth Texas Regiments. I haven’t found him in any of the Civil War prisoner of war records on Ancestry.com.
I did, however, find an article about the Eleventh Texas Cavalry at https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qke11. According to this article, the Eleventh Cavalry was dismounted in 1862 and sent to Shiloh in April 1862. They were remounted in January, 1863, after Colonel Burks was killed at Murfreesboro in December, 1862.
The Confederate Conscription Act was passed in May, 1862. That, presumably, would have been when Catherine encouraged Thomas to enlist in place of his stepbrother. Thomas would have been about 18 in 1862. Now, if Thomas joined up while the regiments were dismounted, in 1862, would he have been recorded as in the 12th Infantry instead of the 12th Cavalry? And does the record indicate that he was captured before they were remounted in January 1863, which would have been at Shiloh, Corinth, Pea Ridge, Richmond, or Murfreesboro? The family story is that he was captured at the battle of Little Rock, which just doesn’t work out.
The answers might help me figure out when he was captured and where he was held prisoner. If it works out that he was captured in Mississippi or Tennessee in 1863, then it would seem that he was enlisting in the Union army of his own free will when he enlisted in March, 1864, back home in Little Rock.
Thanks for any help you can give!