M A. Dry, Private, Company L, Newton's Regiment, Arkansas Cavalry,* enlisted December 26, 1862 at Jackson, recorded on the July/August, 1863 muster roll as absent, sick, no other records

* This regiment was designated at various times as Newton's Regiment Arkansas Cavalry, Morgan's Regiment Arkansas Cavalry, and 2nd Regiment Cavalry; and at the same time it was known as the 5th Regiment Arkansas Cavalry and 8th Regiment Arkansas Cavalry

M317: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Arkansas

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M. A. Dry
Enlisted as a Private
"L" Co. AR 2nd Cavalry

Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:
- Index to Compiled Confederate Military Service Records

The 2nd Arkansas Cavalry was involved at Pilot Knob, Mo. September 26/27, 1864

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2nd or Morgan's Arkansas Cavalry Rgt.

Cols. Robert C. Newton, Thomas J. Morgan, LtCols. John P. Bull, John W. Coarser, Majs. John Smith, William N. Portis

The 5th Ark. Cavalry Rgt. was organized in the spring of 1863.
Attached to J. G. Walker's Division, it skirmished at Helena, Brownsville, Bayou Fourche and Pine Bluff.

Later it was reorganized as Morgan's Arkansas Cavalry Rgt. in the spring of 1864. It was assigned to Cabell's brigade and fought at Poison Spring and Marks' Mills where it lost 18 percent of the 130 engaged. It took part in Price's 1864 Missouri expedition and disbanded prior to the June 1865 surrender.

Submitted by John Haseltine