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I also found this little bit if information about the 30th orgionally being a Mounted comand.

Major-General Hindman, in a report of his activities in the Trans-Mississippi Department during the period May 31 to November 3, 1862, dated Richmond, Va., June 19, 1863, said, "The scarcity of supplies now caused great distress. Nearly two months must yet elapse before the new crop would ripen. To lessen the consumption of corn, I found it necessary to dismount four regiments of Texans and three of Arkansians. This produced much dissatisfaction, and there were many desertions in consequence."

McNeill's regiment was one of those which were dismounted. There's not much information I can find about the regiment when it was first organized as cavalry, although there is one reference that says it was originally designated as the 5th Arkansas Cavalry. I haven't found another source which confirms this. When it was dismounted, it was designated as the 30th Arkansas Infantry -- the State Military Board apparently overlooking the fact that another regiment already held that designation (Turnbull's regiment, east of the Mississippi River, which was subsequently redesignated as the 25th Arkansas Infantry).

Dandridge McRae's regiment was originally designated as the 28th Arkansas Infantry. It was redesignated as the 36th Arkansas Infantry during the reorganization of the Trans-Mississippi Army after the Battle of Prairie Grove.

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