Index to Arkansas Confederate Soldiers, 3 volume set
By Desmond Walls Allen, ISBN 0-941765-50-4, softcover,
$68.00
This three-volume set contains nearly 80,000 references to men who served in Arkansas Confederate units in the War
Between the States. Full names, units, companies, ranks and cross references are listed. These are the soldiers for
whom there are compiled service records in the National Archives. Instructions to order the service records and
suggestions for additional avenues of research are included.
Index to Arkansas Confederate Pension Applications
By Desmond Walls Allen, ISBN 0-941765-54-7, 324 pages,
$37.00
This is an index to 21,886 Confederate veterans who applied for pensions from the State of Arkansas. Information includes:
veteran's name, widow or mother's name, company, unit, year(s) of enrollment, county from which applied and death
dates of vet and widow. Also included is a list of pensioners granted awards through legislative acts and a list of
residents of the Confederate Home. Pensioners in this book are cross-referenced to the 1911 Arkansas Confederate Veteran
census. A detailed summary of pension
legislation and suggestions for further research are included. Pensions were based on the state of residence at the time
of eligibility so about half of the veterans listed in this material fought in units from Confederate and border states
other than Arkansas.
Regional Volumes of Arkansas Confederate Pension Indexes
For the convenience of researchers, Arkansas Confederate pension application information has been organized by county
and is presented in the 15 regional volumes listed below. Information is the same as in the statewide index but
arrangement by county allows thorough research on a particular geographic area. Legislative pensioners and residents
of the Confederate Home for the counties are listed and period maps assist with place names.
Arkansas Confederate Pension Applications from Grant and Saline Counties
ISBN 0-941765-55-5, 24 pp, 571 veterans,
$10.00
Arkansas Confederate Pension Applications from Carroll, Baxter,
Boone, Madison, Marion, Newton and Searcy Counties
ISBN 0-941765-56-3, 44 pp, 1,620 veterans, $10.00
Arkansas Confederate Pension Applications from
Benton and Washington Counties
ISBN 0-941765-58-X, 30 pp, 1,175 veterans, $10.00
Arkansas Confederate Pension Applications from Eastern Arkansas
(Arkansas, Chicot, Clay, Craighead, Crittenden,
Cross, Desha, Greene, Lee, Mississippi,
Monroe, Phillips, Poinsett and St. Francis Counties)
ISBN 0-941765-57-1, 50 pp, 1,917 veterans, $10.00
Arkansas Confederate Pension Applications from Fulton,
Independence, Izard, Lawrence, Randolph and
Sharp Counties
ISBN 0-941765-59-8, 44 pp, 1,849 veterans, $10.00
Arkansas Confederate Pension Applications from
Crawford, Franklin and Sebastian Counties
ISBN 0-941765-60-1, 36 pp, 1,351 veterans, $10.00
Arkansas Confederate Pension Applications from Johnson,
Logan, Perry, Pope, Scott and Yell Counties
ISBN 0-941765-61-X, 46 pp, 1,916 veterans, $10.00
Arkansas Confederate Pension Applications from Cleburne,
Conway, Faulkner, Stone, and Van Buren Counties
ISBN 0-941765-62-8, 36 pp, 1,291 veterans, $10.00
Arkansas Confederate Pension Applications from Jackson,
Lonoke, Prairie, White and Woodruff Counties
ISBN 0-91765-63-6, 40 pp, 1,516 veterans, $10.00
Arkansas Confederate Pension Applications from Pulaski County
ISBN 0-941765-64-4, 26 pp, 812 veterans, $10.00
Arkansas Confederate Pension Applications from Ashley, Bradley,
Cleveland, Drew, Jefferson and Lincoln Counties
ISBN 0-941765-65-2, 42 pp, 1,712 veterans, $10.00
Arkansas Confederate Pension Applications from Calhoun,
Dallas, Ouachita, and Union Counties
ISBN 0-941765-66-0, 34 pp, 1,230 veterans, $10.00
Arkansas Confederate Pension Applications from Columbia,
Hempstead, Lafayette, Miller and Nevada Counties
ISBN 0-941765-67-9, 44 pp, 1,894 veterans, $10.00
Arkansas Confederate Pension Applications from Howard,
Little River, Polk, and Sevier Counties
ISBN 0-941765-68-7, 36 pp, 1,323 veterans, $10.00
Arkansas Confederate Pension Applications from Clark,
Garland, Hot Spring, Montgomery, and Pike Counties
ISBN 0-941765-69-5, 44 pp, 1,846 veterans, $10.00
Arkansas 1911 Confederate Veterans Census
Arkansas 1911 Census of Confederate Veterans on CD
ISBN 978-1-56546-396-7, all four volumes listed below on one CD, $29.95
Arkansas CSA Soldiers
(1911 Census of Confederate Veterans)
Vol. 1, Surnames A-D
ISBN 0-929604-28-8, 160 pages, $20.00
Arkansas CSA Soldiers
(1911 Census of Confederate Veterans)
Vol. 2, Surnames E-Mc
ISBN 0-929604-29-6, 171 pages, $20.00
Arkansas CSA Soldiers
(1911 Census of Confederate Veterans)
Vol. 3, Surnames M-Z
ISBN 0-929604-30-X, 200 pages, $25.00
An Index to the Three Volumes:
Arkansas 1911 Census of Confederate Veterans
ISBN 0-929604-57-1, 280 pages, $28.00
We're pleased to be able to offer these important volumes, listing 1,751 Confederate veterans who were residents of Arkansas in 1911. The questionnaires list the veteran's name, address, date and place of birth; details about military service, full names and places of birth of parents and grandparents; wife's maiden name and her parents' names; and a full list of children, including their residences.
Information is arranged in alpha order in 3 volumes by the last name of veteran, and there is a separate index volume which lists over 30,000 "hidden" names - maiden names, grandparents' names, married daughters, and more.
Forty-four of Arkansas' 75 counties participated in this census: Arkansas, Ashley, Benton, Boone, Bradley, Carroll, Chicot, Cleburne, Cleveland, Columbia, Conway, Crawford, Desha, Drew, Faulkner, Franklin, Fulton, Hempstead, Howard, Independence, Jefferson, Lafayette, Lee, Little River, Logan, Marion, Miller, Newton, Ouachita, Perry, Phillips, Pope, Prairie, Saline, Scott, Searcy, Sebastian, Sevier, Sharp, Union, Van Buren, Washington, White, and Yell Counties.
Confederate Regimentals
This book contains a roster of 1,877 men from north central Arkansas with full name, rank, company, date & place
of enrollment, age, POW status, death & desertion dates; also listed are Confederate pensions from Arkansas for
these men and a cross reference index to witnesses for pensions.
Turnbo enlisted in the summer of 1862 and served until the unit's surrender in June, 1865. Before 1910, he wrote
this lengthy, detailed account of his military service, giving a private's view of the war: enlistment procedures,
camp life, marches, rations, uniforms, relations with other units, officers and enlisted men. He gives a detailed
account of the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry. The book is based on a diary kept during the war by Turnbo. This is not
flowery prose, but an honest, down-to-earth look at the war. This book has never before been published. Chronology list, full name/subject/place index.
This book contains a roster of 1,113 soldiers from White, Jackson, Randolph, Izard, Fulton, White, Lawrence,
Marion & Independence Counties. Material is included on unit activities and Colonel Robert G. Shaver, organizer
of the Seventh. Directions are given to order additional records. Roster lists name, company, rank in and out,
enlistment date and place, age, & remarks about POW status, death, desertion, discharge, etc.
This unit was organized in the fall of 1861, by Col. William C. Mitchell, of men from Marion and other
northwestern Arkansas counties. A brief regimental history is given and a roster lists full name, enlistment
date and place, company, rank, age, and birthplace when given and remarks about POW status, discharge, desertion,
or death. There are photos of commanders.
"If I Should Live":
A History of the Sixteenth Arkansas Confederate Infantry
By Mark Miller, ISBN 1-56546-162-2, 162 pages, $24.50
View the names of the soldiers in this unit
(15K)
Soldiers in the Sixteenth were from Carroll, Johnson, Madison, Pike,
Searcy, Van Buren, Washington, and what became Logan and Stone Counties.
This is a wonderful narrative history of the unit, fully documented, with
a detailed roster of the soldiers.
This book contains a roster of 1,800 men who served in the unit and lists name, company, date and place of enrollment,
age, and miles traveled to enlistment, plus remarks about deaths, POW status, desertions, paroles, oaths, etc. Companies
were from Chicot, Prairie, Johnson, Jackson, White, Lawrence, Pulaski, Arkansas, Yell, Conway and Independence Counties.
Information about Gen. Thomas J. Churchill, a transcription of Pvt. T. Jeff Jobe's diary written prior to battle of
Oak Hills, and excerpts from Dr. Robert H. Dacus' Reminiscences of Company H are included.
Thirty-eighth Arkansas Confederate InfantryBy Desmond Walls Allen, ISBN 0-941765-37-7, 73 pages,
2 photos,
$16.00
This book contains a roster of 1,700 men who served in the unit with name, company, date and place of enrollment,
and remarks. Soldiers were from Lawrence, Randolph, and Independence Counties. Information is given about Col.
R. G. Shaver, commander of the unit, Major R. R. Henry, Col. M. D. Baber and other leaders.
Forty-fifth Arkansas Confederate CavalryBy Desmond Walls Allen,
ISBN 0-941765-36-9, 40 pages, 1 photo,
$14.00
This book contains a roster of almost 700 soldiers with available data from compiled service records. The unit was organized in the fall of 1864 to go on Price's Raid. Information is given on Col. M. D. Baber and other leaders. Soldiers were from Lawrence and surrounding counties.
History of the Thirty-first Arkansas Confederate Infantry
By Ronald R. Bass, ISBN 1-56546-096-0, 142 pages,
$22.50
In the fall of 1861, the Confederacy was in need of more soldiers. Lt. Thomas H. McCray of the Fifth Arkansas
was sent to recruit men from the north central part of the state--Conway, Independence, Jackson, Pope, Van Buren,
and Yell Counties. By February, 1862, the Thirty-first Infantry was formed. The unit participated in the sieges of
Corinth and Jackson, the Kentucky campaign, the battles of Chickamauga, Franklin, and Nashville, the Atlanta campaign.
The regiment's story is told from scraps of information found in service records, excerpts from the official records,
and letters and diaries of the soldiers and officers. The author, Ronald R. Bass, is a descendant of Captain William
Cullum of Company D of the Thirty-first Infantry. He has written an interesting, straightforward regimental history.
A roster of the soldiers is included with details about when and where each man enlisted, his birthplace, occupation,
personal description, and service record. A bibliography, endnotes, 15 maps, and index assist the reader.
This volume lists full name, unit, company, rank in and out, date & place of enlistment, age, reported birthplace and so noted if died in the war for 9,203 Union soldiers who served in regiments with an Arkansas designation. It also includes indexes to Miscellaneous Card Abstracts and Miscellaneous Personal Papers. Regimental information is listed. About 2,000 Arkansas soldiers served in both Confederate and Union armies. If a research subject drops off the CSA rolls during the war, this Union index is a logical place to check for additional service.
This volume contains an index to pension applications (approved & denied) filed by men who served in Arkansas Union
units. Union pensions were based on the military service unit of the veteran, so this index can be used to trace the
movement of men who served in Arkansas units, then moved to other parts of the county after the war.
Death dates/places are listed for nearly 1/3 of the veterans. Earliest application year for invalid, widow,
contesting widow, minor, mother, father, etc. pension is listed. The book includes sample records and information
to order more material. Nearly 80% of Union soldiers had some type of pension application filed based on their service.
The following nine books contain rosters of soldiers who served in each regiment, listing name, rank, company,
date & place of enlistment, reported birthplace, and death date if available. Also included are indexes to card
abstracts and regimental papers. A pension application index lists type of application (invalid, minor, widow, etc.)
and earliest application year and death dates when listed. Each volume contains regimental information by Adjutant General
Albert W. Bishop (1867), and Frederick H. Dyer's list of regimental activities.
Lists 1,765 men recruited primarily from Washington, Carroll & Benton Counties in Arkansas, Barry & Greene
Counties in Missouri.
Lists 1,394 men recruited primarily from Sebastian, Crawford & Phillips Counties in Arkansas, Barry & Greene Counties in MO.
Lists 1,387 men recruited primarily from Conway, Yell & Pulaski Counties in Arkansas.
Lists 1,203 men recruited primarily from Pulaski, Yell & Sebastian Counties in Arkansas.
Lists 1,295 men primarily from Washington, Sebastian & Newton Counties in Arkansas.
Lists 986 men recruited primarily from Johnson, Sebastian & Yell Counties in Arkansas.
Lists 250 men from central and northwestern Arkansas. Organization of this unit was not completed, but these men have compiled service records.
This unit saw service from July through December 1862, and the men were primarily from Independence, Izard & Conway Counties in Arkansas.
This book contains a complete roster of the 3,000 men who mustered in the spring and summer of 1898 to fight the
Spanish in Cuba and the Philippines. It contains a brief historical background of the war, research implications, a history of the State Guard by Gen. Arthur Neill, and individual company information. Soldiers' information includes name, rank, company, unit, residence, enrollment date, age, marital status, birthplace and nearest relative when data is available. Special features of the book are two place name indexes: one lists birthplaces, the other residences.
This book contains a roster of 1,552 men who served in Arkansas units in the United States' war with Mexico, 1846-1847.
Names, ranks, ages, units and companies are listed with remarks about deaths, discharges, prisoner status, enrollment
dates, desertions, transfers, etc. In addition, the book includes material about the units and Arkansas' participation
in the war. This book is of interest to historians interested in the WBTS as many of Arkansas' Confederate leaders, men
like Albert Pike, were veterans of the Mexican War.
Nine years before Texas joined the Union, she fought a war with Mexico for her Independence. Volunteers from Arkansas
rode off to Texas to help. This book lists company histories for the soldiers in the First Regiment from Conway, Saline,
Pope, Hempstead, Pulaski, Sevier, Randolph, Independence, and Lawrence Counties; and the Second Regiment from Washington,
Crawford, Johnson, and Scott Counties. (Remember the county boundaries were very different in this time period.)
Information about the formation, duties, leaders, and activities of the units is included. Rosters of the men list
residence, company, unit, rank, promotions, substitutes, discharge dates and deaths during the enlistment period.
Additionally, Captain Bean's roster lists birthplace, enlistment date, and occupation. Originally published 1984 by
Morgan Books.
Originally published in 1971, and long out-of-print, this valuable resource is available again. It lists the applicants' names with the county, year, and warrant number of their grant applications.
In 1918, Congress passed a law which waived the five-year waiting period for naturalization, provided the petitioner was in military service. Camp Pike was a large World War I training center for soldiers from all over the US, especially the Midwest and Arkansas and surrounding states. This index contains an alphabetical roster of those 3,000 men who took advantage of the law, listing name, company and unit, date of birth, country of birth, marital status, and location of the record.
This informative volume contains a list of all the known burials in the cemetery, listing full name, section and grave, internment date, and rank, for each soldier. Many wives of soldiers are also listed.
The first burial in the Fort Smith National Cemetery was in 1819, and since then more than 8,000 servicemen and their
wives have been buried there. This volume lists full names, birth and death dates, burial dates, grave locations, and
remarks.
The Little Rock National Cemetery was founded during the War when Union solders were buried in what had been an old
camp ground. More Union soldiers who were buried elsewhere at battle sites were removed to the cemetery after the war.
A Confederate section was added in later years. This roster is from the cemetery's records and contains all known
burials through 1994.
Arkansas' World War I Soldiers