First Battery Arkansas Light
Artillery
History and Service
Organized at Fayetteville, Arkansas, and Springfield,
Missouri, January to August, 1863.
At Fayetteville, Arkansas, January to April,
1863.
Moved to Springfield, Missouri, April 25-May
4, and duty there until September 21, 1863.
Expedition from Springfield into Arkansas
and Indian Territory, September 7-19, 1863.
Near Enterprise, Missouri, September 15, 1863.
Moved to Fayetteville, Arkansas, September
21, 1863, and duty there until March, 1864.
Attached to District of Southwest Missouri,
Department of Missouri, to March, 1864.
2nd Brigade, District of the Frontier, 7th
Army Corps, Department of Arkansas, to January, 1865.
Artillery, 3rd Division, 7th Army Corps, to
February, 1865.
1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 7th Army Corps,
to August, 1865.
Service:
Actions at Cross Timbers, Arkansas, October
15 and 20, 1863.
Moved to Fort Smith, Arkansas, March 19, 1864.
Steele’s expedition to Camden, March 23-May
3, 1864.
Prairie D’Ann, Arkansas, April 9-13, 1864.
Van Buren, Arkansas, April 12, 1864.
Camden, Arkansas, April 15, 1864.
Poison Springs, Arkansas, April 18, 1864.
Jenkins’ Ferry on Saline River, Arkansas,
April 30, 1864.
March to Fort Smith, Arkansas, May 3-16, 1864.
Garrison duty at Fort Smith and at Fort Gibson,
Indian Territory, until August, 1865.
Action at Prior Creek, Indian Territory, September
18, 1864.
Mustered out, August 10, 1865.