1st Consolidated Regiment, Arkansas Infantry (Confederate)

The 2nd Arkansas Infantry was organized at Helena, Arkansas, in June 1861, largely through the efforts of Thomas Carmichael Hindman, who had recently resigned from the United States Congress following the secession of Arkansas from the Union.

Initially organized with ten companies from eastern and central Arkansas, the 2nd Arkansas Infantry was briefly expanded to a 22-company organization called the “Hindman Legion”

– consisting of the 2nd Regiment Arkansas Infantry,

-1st (Marmaduke’s) Battalion Arkansas Infantry,

-6th (Phifer’s) Battalion Arkansas Cavalry, and the

-Warren Light Artillery (Swett’s Mississippi Battery).

The Legion was subsequently broken up, and the component units resumed their original organization.

As a result of losses in the Battle of Shiloh (April 6-7, 1862),

-Companies C and E were disbanded and consolidated with other companies.

A new Company C was recruited as Marianna, and

a new Company E was formed from members of the 11th Arkansas Infantry who had escaped capture at the fall of Island No. 10

The 2nd Arkansas Infantry was part of Cleburne’s Division in the Confederate Army of Tennessee for much of the war. ,

the severely depleted regiment was consolidated with the remnants of other Arkansas regiments to form the 1st Arkansas Consolidated Infantry.

The survivors of the 2nd Arkansas Infantry surrendered at Greensboro, North Carolina, on April 26, 1865. –

Two of the regiment’s officers, Thomas C. Hindman and Daniel C. Govan, were promoted to general. In March 1865