3rd AR Cavalry
Organized: Little Rock, AR on 7/24/61
Mustered Out: 4/26/65 at Durham Station, NC
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The 3rd Arkansas Cavalry was organized at Little Rock on June 10, 1861, as the 1st (Borland’s) Battalion Arkansas Cavalry. On July 27, 1861, the battalion was mustered into Confederate service for one year, and on July 29 was reorganized as the 1st Regiment Arkansas Mounted Volunteers. On January 15, 1862, it was redesignated as the 3rd Regiment Arkansas Cavalry. It was reorganized at Corinth, Mississippi, on May 26, 1862, with the addition of two companies (I and K) from the recently-disbanded Williamson’s Battalion Arkansas Infantry. Much to the dissatisfaction of the men, the regiment was dismounted to serve as infantry, and fought as such at Corinth and Hatchie Bridge, where they suffered appalling casualties. Finally, the regiment was remounted and served as cavalry for the rest of the war. The 3rd Arkansas Cavalry served under Major-General “Fighting Joe” Wheeler in the Confederate Army of Mississippi for much of the war. The regiment had an outstanding reputation, and benefitted from very competent leadership. The commanders of the regiment were Colonels Solon Borland, Samuel G. Earle, and Anson W. Hobson. The remnants of the regiment surrendered with the Army of Tennessee and were paroled at Chesterfield, South Carolina, on May 5, 1865.
http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/3cav_indx.html
http://www.researchonline.net/arcw/unit32.htm
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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
"I'm trying to find out what happened to a slave, Marshal Thomas, aged about 16, who enlisted in Company "I" 3rd Arkansas Volunteers, possibly @ Hannibal, MO. Can you direct me to any sources to help my search?" Merrilyn Parham Hannibal, MO
http://www.mosocco.com/arkansas.html