14th ARKANSAS CONFEDERATE INFANTRY - WITH UNIT ROSTER CIVIL WAR - FINE CONDITION

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14th ARKANSAS CONFEDERATE INFANTRY - WITH UNIT ROSTER CIVIL WAR - FINE CONDITION:
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THE FOURTEENTH ARKANSAS CONFEDERATE INFANTRY

BY DESMOND WALLS ALLEN

FINE CONDITION

Original, Clean, Tight, Paperback, Booklet

Contains Illustrations, Photographs and Maps

Contains a Muster Roll of the Unit with Information on Each Soldier

PRIVATELY PUBLISHED BY DESMOND WALLS ALLEN, IN 1988

The 14th Arkansas Confederate Infantry was composed of ten companies from Carroll, Fulton, Izard, Marion, Newton and Searcy counties, which were mustered into service in July 1861 at Camp Adams, near Yellville, Arkansas. There were originally 939 officers and men mustered into the regiment. The driving force behind the organization of the regiment was State Senator William C. Mitchell, who notified the Governor that he had gathered his own company and nine other companies at Yellville, and was ready and able for service. The Governor accepted their services, and the State Military Board assigned Mitchell\'s regiment the designation of 14th Arkansas Regiment.

The regiment was composed of volunteers, despite being drawn from a part of the State with strong pro-Union sentiments. The 14th Arkansas was very poorly armed with a bewildering variety of shotguns, old flintlock muskets, and about every kind of muzzle-loaded musket and pistol available. Many of the men were originally armed only with home made knives and hatchets. They had no uniforms, only homespun clothing, and virtually no accouterments or camp equipment. Despite all these drawbacks, the 14th Arkansas Regiment was mustered into service at Yellville in August 1861, for a period of twelve months.

There are practically no surviving regimental records of the 14th Arkansas\' first year of service. The muster-in rolls were never sent to the Confederate War Department at Richmond, and the regiment\'s copies of the records were lost at the Battle of Pea Ridge, where the wagon containing the adjutant\'s portable desk was lost, burnt or captured. Thus, nothing comprehensive is known about the original members of the regiment, or deaths, discharges, promotions, etc. The regiment\'s records, for all practical purposes, begin in May 1862, when the 14th Arkansas was reorganized for the war. The unit fought at the Battle of Pea Ridge and during the Corinth Campaign (including the Battle of Iuka and the Second Battle of Corinth), and at the Siege of Port Hudson. Following the surrender of Port Hudson, the unit returned to Arkansas and was consolidated with other units that had been released following their capture, to form the 1st Arkansas Consolidated Infantry Regiment (Trans-Mississippi).

This booklet provides an excellent history of the 14th Arkansas Infantry, C.S.A. and provides a roster of men that constituted that unit, along with details of their service. The roster shows the soldier’s name, company, rank in and out, date and place of enlistment, plus comments gleaned from the official record regarding prisoner of war status, death, age, discharge and more. Biographical information about the unit’s leaders is also included.

This book is in excellent condition. It is clean and tight, with very light wear. The pages are clean and in excellent condition. The booklet has no writing, foxing, pasteboards or stamps and it is not an ex-library book. The booklet is illustrated with photography, illustrations and maps.

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