1st [8th] Arkansas Battalion

 

This unit was attached to Maj. Gen. Franklin Gardner’s 3rd Military District at Port Hudson, LA , Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton’s Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana and was commanded by Lt. Col. B. Jones. [Refer to Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XXIV, Part 1 - Reports, page 706 and Edward Cunningham’s The Port Hudson Campaign, 1862 - 1863, page 127.] No Marker or Monument

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