2ND ARKANSAS INFANTRY REGIMENT - USA

HISTORY AND ENGAGEMENTS

Second Regiment Arkansas Infantry.
Organized at Springfield, Missouri, and Fort Smith, Arkansas, October,
1863, to March, 1864.
Organization completed at Fort Smith, Arkansas, March 13, 1864.
Attached to District of the Frontier, Department of Missouri, to
January, 1864.
District of the Frontier, 7th Army Corps, Department of Arkansas,
January, 1864.
2nd Brigade, District of the Frontier, 7th Army Corps, to March, 1864.
1st Brigade, District of the Frontier, 7th Army Corps, to May, 1864.
2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 7th Army Corps, to December, 1864.
1st Brigade, District of the Frontier, 7th Army Corps, to February,
1865.
1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 7th Army Corps, to August, 1865.

Service:
Skirmish at Clarksville, Arkansas, December 15, 1863.
Affair at Jacksonport, Arkansas, November 21, 1863.
At Fort Smith, Arkansas, until March, 1864.
Steele’s Expedition to Camden, Arkansas, March 23-May 3, 1864.
Prairie D’Ann, Arkansas, April 9-12, 1864.
Moscow, Arkansas, April 13, 1864.
Limestone Valley, Arkansas, April 17, 1864 (detachment).
Jenkins’ Ferry on Saline River, Arkansas, April 30, 1864.
Duty at Little Rock, Arkansas, until July, 1864.
Duty at Lewisburg, Arkansas, until September, 1864.
Ordered to Little Rock, Arkansas, September 10, and duty there until
October 18, 1864.
Escort train to Fort Smith, Arkansas, October-November, 1864.
Moved to Clarksville, Arkansas, December 31, and duty there and at Fort
Smith until August, 1865.
Mustered out, August 8, 1865.


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