3rd Arkansas Cavalry, C.S.A.,"The War Child's Children: The Story of the Third Regiment, Arkansas Cavalry, Confederate States of America," by Captain Calvin L. Collier. Published by Pioneer Press, Little Rock, 1965, 233 pages, maps, roster, cost $ 15.00. (Also reprinted by the Eagle Press, Little Rock, Arkansas in 1988). "Cousin Jimmie: How appropriate that you should send me an email about "Arkies" the same morning that the Post Office finally delivered the book I recently bought from a woman in Louisiana. It is a book for which I have been hunting for three years and copies of it are scarce as hens' teeth. The War Child's Children, by Major Calvin L. Collier, USAF (ret'd), published in Little Rock in 1965 by the author, and printed by the Pioneer Press, is the detailed history of the Third Regiment, Arkansas Cavalry, C.S.A. It details the history of the 3rd Arkansas Cavalry, CSA from the time of the formation of the regiment of eight companies (later ten) by Colonel Solon Borland and the mustering in of the first eight companies on June 10, 1861 in Little Rock; the later mustering of the regiment into the Confederate army on July 29, 1861; and all the details of the regimental history, serving under Major General Joseph Wheeler ("the War Child") throughout the Civil War until Lee's Surrender at Appomattox in April 1865. At the time of Lee's surrender, the 3rd Arkansas Cavalry CSA on patrol in South Carolina, near the North Carolina border. They were ordered to the nearest Federal Post to surrender and be granted the standard parole. Many of them refused to surrender and started home for Arkansas. Some of these were hunted down by Federal Troops and arrested, then issued the standard parole. Others made it back home to Arkansas without ever submitting to a surrender to the "Damned Yankees".... Most of the regiment was surrendered and parolled at Chesterfield, South Carolina. Among those was Private Andrew Jackson Garrison and Private John HR Hobbs, both my kinsmen. Andrew J. was, of course, your great-grandfather and the half-brother of my great-grandfather, William David Garrison, both of them sons of Capel Garrison, our great-great-grandfather, who died in Conway County in 1862 and whose history I am researching now. Andrew Jackson joined the 3rd Arkansas Cavalry, CSA together with his brother Allen Wesley. They were both mustered into Company "I" and were involved with their unit at the Battle of Corinth. Allen Wesley was given a disability discharge after the Battle of Corinth and returned home to Conway County. He and some other Garrison cousins later joined the Yankee regiment of the 3rd Arkansas Cavalry, USA.... The two opposing armies' 3rd Arkansas Cavalry regiments never faced one another in battle during the Civil War. They operated in different areas of the conflict. I'm delighted to get this book and looking forward to reading and re-reading it. I enjoyed reading your email about "Arkies". Some parts of it awakened echos of things I'd heard Grampaw and Grammaw Garrison say.... All the Best!! Cousin Ken" Email Ken Garrison
http://www.mosocco.com/arkansas.html
From the U. S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Pa. in their unit bibilography
USAMHI
Ref Branch
laf & ca Jan 96
3rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment
Bohannon, Keith. "Colonel Van Manning, 3rd Arkansas Infantry." Mil Images Mag (Sep/Oct
1987): pp. 14 15 (2 photocopied pages). Per.
Collier, Calvin L. "They'll Do to Tie To!": The Story of the Third Arkansas Infantry, C.S.A.
Little Rock, AR: CWRT Associates, l988 reprint of 1959 ed. 233 p. E553.5.3rd.C65.
Confederate Military History, Extended Edition. Vol. 14: Arkansas. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot,
1988. pp. 296 98 (2 photocopied pages). E484C65.1987v14. (Brief unit history).
Crute, Joseph H., Jr. Units of the Confederate States Army. Midlothian, VA: Derwent Books,
1987. Ref.
See pp. 44 45 (1 photocopied page) for a concise summary of the regiment's service.
Joslyn, Mauriel P. "'For Ninety Nine Years of the War" The Story of the 3d Arkansas at
Gettysburg." Gettysburg Mag 14 (Jan 1996): pp. 52-63 (12 photocopied pages). E475.53E482no14.
Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederacy: Florida and Arkansas. NY: Facts on File,
1992. pp. 73 74 (2 photocopied pages). E553S53. (Unit organizational history).
Winkler, Angelina V. The Confederate Capital and Hood's Texas Brigade. Austin, TX: E. Von
Voeckmann, l894. 312 p. E580.4H6W55.
Wright, Marcus J. Arkansas in the War, 1861 1865. Batesville, AR: Independence CO Hist Soc,
1963. pp. 27 28 (2 photocopied pages). E553W7. (List of unit officers).
The following books contain information on Arkansas' Civil War units:
Dougan, Michael B. Confederate Arkansas: The People and Politics of a Frontier State in Wartime.
University, AL: U AL, 1976. 164 p. E553.D68.
Ferguson, John L., ed. Arkansas and the Civil War. Little Rock, AR: AR Hist Comm, 1964.
364 p. E553F4.
3d Arkansas Infantry (p. 2)
The following pertinent personal papers are in the Institute's Manuscript Archive:
Horn, R.E. LeighColl Bk l7: 24 (Pvt's letter, Mar 24, 1862)
Lowry, Robert J. BrakeColl (Pvt's diary, Jun 4-Aug 18, 1863)