Battle Unit Details

CONFEDERATE ARKANSAS TROOPS

Cocke's Regiment, Arkansas Infantry

Overview:
Johnson's-Hawthorne's-Polk's Infantry Regiment [also called 39th Regiment] was organized in the summer of 1862. It served in McRae's, Fagan's, and A.T. Hawthorne's Brigade, Trans-Mississippi Department. The unit fought at Prairie Grove, reported 137 casualties at Helena, and was active at Bayou Fourche. Later it skirmished in a few actions in Arkansas, then was broken up before the surrender in June, 1865. The field officers were Colonels John B. Cocke, A.T. Hawthorne, Alfred W. Johnson, and Cadwallader Polk, and Lieutenant Colonel D.W. Ringo.
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