14th Regiment, Arkansas Infantry (Powers') (Confederate)

14th (Mitchell's-Powers') Infantry Regiment was organized during the fall of 1861 recruited in the northwestern region of the state. It was captured at Port Hudson on July 9. After being exchanged, the 14th was not reorganized. Joseph H. Crute, Jr, CONFEDERATE ARKANSAS TROOPS, "Units of the Confederate States Army", http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/regiments.cfm (accessed October 8, 2010). The 14th Arkansas Infantry, the first of two regiments to bear that designation (the other being McCarver’s short-lived regiment), was organized at Yellville about August 22, 1861, composed of ten companies from the counties of Carroll, Fulton, Izard, Marion, Newton and Searcy. Edward Gerdes and Bryan Howerton, researchers, Arkansas Civil War Regiments, Rosters and Muster Rolls, http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/14powers_f&amp;s.html, 11/8/2010. © 2002 by EDWARD G. GERDES all rights reserved. This information may be used by libraries and genealogical societies, however, commercial use of this information is strictly prohibited without prior permission. If copied, this copyright notice must appear with the information. 