Fourth Arkansas Infantry
Wilson's Creek, MO after battle report:
Report of Col. J. D. Walker, Fourth Arkansas Infantry.
IN CAMP ON WILSON'S CREEK, MO., August 11, 1861.
The Fourth Regiment, on the morning of the 10th, was placed under the
command of Adjutant-Gen. Rector, who remained in command
during the day. This regiment was not brought into immediate action,
being stationed upon the hill for the protection of Reid's battery, and
although exposed to danger from the fire of the enemy, all the officers
and men of the regiment behaved with the greatest promptness and
coolness in all their movements during the day. There were none killed
or wounded in the Fourth Regt.
I have the honor to be, respectfully, &c.,
J. D. WALKER,
Col. Fourth Regt. Arkansas Volunteers.
Brig.-Gen. PEARCE.
Source: Official Records
CHAP. X.] BATTLE OF WILSON'S CREEK, MO. PAGE 124-3
[Series I. Vol. 3. Serial No. 3.]
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4TH ARKANSAS INFANTRY REGIMENT, STATE TROOPS
NARA Roll #76
After the battle at Wilson's Creek, MO 10 Aug 186 a petition was circulated among the officers to allow the commander to remain in command of the the regiment.
http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/4arinfst.html
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Under the command of Colonel J. D. Walker, the 4th Regiment, Arkansas State Troops was present at the Battle of Wilson's Creek, Missouri on August 10, 1861,[4] but was not engaged. Following the battle, the regiment, with the rest of the Arkansas troops, was marched back to Arkansas and given the opportunity to vote on the issue of being transferred into Confederate service. The regiment, along with the rest of the 1st Division voted to disband rather than be transferred to Confederate service.[5] Many veterans of the regiments joined other Confederate units later in the war.[6]
5. ^ Huff, “Military Board”, p. 90: See Also, The war of the rebellion: a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies. ; Series 1 - Volume 3, Page 716, Accessed 10 Jaunary 2010, http://dlxs2.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moawar;cc=moawar;xc=1;idno=waro0003;g=moagrp;q1=Arkansas;q2=Wilson%20s%20Creek;q3=Gratiot;node=waro0003%3A4;frm=frameset;view=image;seq=729;page=root;size=s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4th_Regiment,_Arkansas_State_Troops
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Note: The following is at variance with the next entry and noting his after action report the day following the battle.
James David Walker (1830–1906)
Walker was captured at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek on August 10, 1861, and he spent a year as a prisoner of war. In August 1862, he signed an oath promising not to take arms against the U.S. government and then joined his family in Corsicana, Texas, where he stayed for the remainder of the war. In the summer of 1865, the family returned to Fayetteville, where Walker resumed his law practice. Walker was named solicitor general, and he was one of Arkansas’s presidential electors in 1876, casting his vote for Democrat Samuel Jones Tilden.
http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=4664
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[Following mustering out of the regiment] J D Walker never entered the service again. After the war, and following reconstruction, Walker was elected US Senator from Arkansas. ...
http://books.google.com/books?id=nm5j3artdy4C&pg=PA68&lpg=PA68&dq=Arkansas+Senator+J.+D.+Walker&source=bl&ots=A4VWaoUZTd&sig=lgv8wPROueMRy_lelKrGD4hy9J4&hl=en&ei=YJkPTpG6J5S-sQOR_5yXDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CFIQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=Arkansas%20Senator%20J.%20D.%20Walker&f=false [page 68]