3rd Corporal F. M. Jackson, enlisted April 28, 1862 in Hart's Artillery Company, Light Artillery at Murfersburough, marked present on September 1, 1862 muster at Arkansas Post, Arkansas, the only other card in his file is an undated roll of paroled prisoners of war residing in Southern States
2nd AR Light Artillery Battery
Organized: on 8/1/62
Mustered Out: 5/26/65
Hart's Battery, Arkansas Light Artillery
Hart's Battery was organized in Dallas County, Arkansas, during the late summer of 1861 with 4 officers and 70 men. The unit fought at Elkhorn Tavern, then a section was transferred east of the Mississippi River. This section was eventually consolidated into Cobb's Kentucky Battery. The rest of the company was engaged at Arkansas Post and captured in January, 1863. When exchanged and reorganized, it was attached to the Trans-Mississippi Department and often called 2nd Field Battery or 2nd Battery Mounted. At the end of the war it was with the Reserve Battalion at Marshall, Texas. Captain William Hart was in command.