Hooker’s Company, 30-Day Volunteers, CSA

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This company was organized by Capt. Richard Hooker at Jacksonport, Arkansas, on November 29, 1861, and discharged on December 28, 1861 at Pocahontas, Arkansas.  It was reorganized at Jacksonport on February 26, 1862, and merged into Companies C and D, 32nd Regiment Arkansas Infantry, on June 15, 1862.

Notation on muster roll—“Muster Roll of Capt. Hooker’s Company of Mounted Volunteers, raised in response to Col. Borland’s call of Nov. 5, 1861; mustered into the Confederate service Nov. 29 for 30 days, and discharged Dec. 28, 1861.  Entitled to transportation and subsistence from Pocahontas to Jacksonport, Ark.”

Arne, Alexander—Private.

Barnes, George J—Private; later served in Co. C, 32nd Arkansas Infantry.

Bland, John—Second Lieutenant; later served in Co. D, 32nd Arkansas Infantry; killed in action, April 1, 1864.

Brown, J B H—Private.

Bullock, W J—Private.

Campbell, J J—Private.

Eason, William P—Private; later served in Co. D, 32nd Arkansas Infantry.

Griffith, Evan—Private.

Haile, Robert—Sergeant.

Harvey, William R—Private; later served in Co. D, 32nd Arkansas Infantry.

Henderson, M M—Ensign.

Herron, M—Private.

Hicks, John—First Sergeant.

Hooker, Richard—Captain.

Horn, John M—Private.

Johnson, Leroy M—Private.

Kellogg, Silas—Sergeant.

Laughlin, B D—Private; later served in Co. K, 30th Arkansas Infantry.

Lax, John—Sergeant; later served in Co. C, 32nd Arkansas Infantry.

McKinney, B W—Private.

Malby, A—Private.

Marion, John—Private; later served in Co. D, 32nd Arkansas Infantry.

Mason, V R—Quartermaster and Commissary.

Posey, A H—Farrier.

Purssell, A G—Private; later served in Co. D, 32nd Arkansas Infantry.

Purssell, W O—Sergeant; later served in Co. E, 47th Arkansas Mounted Infantry.

Shettlesworth, Elijah M—First Lieutenant; later served in Co. D, 32nd Arkansas Infantry.

Siddall, John M—Private.

Smith, Edward F—Private.

Spradlin, R T—Private.

Vance, D S—Private; later served in Co. C, 32nd Arkansas Infantry.

Westmoreland, F G—Sergeant; later served in Co. D, 32nd Arkansas Infantry.

Westmoreland, Jerome W—Sergeant; later served in Co. D, 32nd Arkansas Infantry.

Williamson, John—Private.

If you have any questions or comments or if you would like to have more information about the Civil War and Pension Records of the men who served in these Companies, contact me Jeri Helms Fultz or Bryan Howerton