CONFEDERATE ARKANSAS TROOPS
1st Regiment, Arkansas Mounted Rifles
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1st Regiment Mounted Rifles was organized at Fort Smith, Arkansas, in May, 1861, with 768 officers and men. Its companies were recruited in Little Rock and Fort Smith and the counties of Chicot, Arkansas, Johnson, Woodruff, White, Lawrence, Pulaski, Yell, and Independence. The unit fought at Wilson’s Creek and Elkhorn Tavern, then was dismounted. It participated in Bragg's Kentucky Campaign under General Churchill and later was placed in General McNair's and D.H. Reynold's Brigade. The regiment was engaged at Murfreesboro and Jackson and in many conflicts of the Army of Tennessee from Chickamauga to Bentonville. It reported 45 killed, 161 wounded, and 2 missing at Wilson's Creek and sustained 26 casualties at Richmond and 95 at Murfreesboro. Of the 254 who saw action at Chickamauga, forty-two percent were disabled. Its force was greatly reduced when it surrendered on April 26, 1865. The field officers were Colonels Thomas J. Churchill, M.G. Galloway, Robert W. Harper, and Daniel H. Reynolds; Lieutenant Colonels George S. Laswell, Charles H. Matlock, Lee M. Ramsaur, and George W. Wells; and Major W.P. Campbell.
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