Here's an interesting CW newspaper article that our old Missouri friend, Jim McGhee, sent to me:

DAILY CONSTITUTIONALIST [AUGUSTA, GA], September 17, 1864, p. 1, c. 1

Arkansas Band.—This Band, celebrated throughout the Army of Tennessee for their skill and sweet music, will give a Concert at the Masonic Hall to-night, for the benefit of the sick and wounded of Gen. Pat. Cleburne’s Division of Arkansas troops.

This band entered the armies of the Confederate States in the summer of 1861, when General Hardee commanded the First Arkansas brigade, remained with it under Hindman, then under Cleburne, then under Liddell, and now under Govan. Their soul-stirring strains have aroused this fighting brigade before many a battle, and played the dirges for its gallant dead after the terrible conflicts were over. In many a fight, after playing the charge, have they seized muskets and gone into the thickest of the fight. In the words of Gen. Hiel [or Hill?], they are “shooters as well as tooters.”

They will perform with twelve instruments; and we promise all a rich treat. Let the poor Arkansas soldiers have a full house. It is only casting your bread upon the waters to receive it back at once.