Enlisted as a Private May 6, 1862, age 30
"H" Co. TX 18th Infantry

He was reported sick in hospital at Des Arc on the Sep/Oct 1862 muster roll where the company was stationed at Camp Nelson, Arkansas. This
muster was conducted most likely on October 31 or within the first two weeks of November. He died of disease at 'L. Rock," on December 22,
I believe, as referred to on his regimental return.

Des Arc is approximately 50 miles NE from Little Rock. There was a Confederate hospital at Des Arc, however, I find no information on it. Des Arc may still have been the site of the Trans Mississippi Department Headquarters at this time.

You can order his records by the service noted above.

George Martin

The 18th Texas Infantry in service to the Confederate States of America (CSA) was formed on May 13, 1862 in Jefferson (Marion County), TX and spent its entire career within the Trans-Mississippi Department (Confederate operations west of the Mississippi River). The regiment consisted of 10 companies (11 Companies for some months) and participated in more than twenty {20} military engagements. Five of these engagements were significant and are summarized below.

Initial regimental field operations were in Arkansas from late summer (1862) into the spring (1863) with no military action. In October a new Division was formed and 18th Texas Infantry was incorporated into the 1st Brigade.

This query was published on the message board last February:

Texas Units at Camp Nelson Arkansas
By:R. D.Keever
Date: Wednesday, 6 February 2008, 3:34 am
I'm working on a book about Confederate Camp Nelson in Arkansas. I have a list of several Texas units being there from late summer through winter of 1862. It was called Camp Hope before Oct. 8 1862 when Gen. Allison Nelson died. Almost all of the troops there were Texans and I don't want to leave any units out. Some soldiers refered to it as "Camp Death". I have lost or misplaced some copies of letters from Camp Nelson/Camp Hope. I need letters of the Orr brothers. I'm looking for any copies of letters not published in books over the last several years and any Texas unit I've missed listing that served there.

Thanks for any help R.D. Keever

Camp Nelson was located at Cabot, some 20 miles NE of Little Rock on US 67

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18th Texas Infantry Regiment: "Texans in Gray: A Regimental History of the 18th Texas Infantry, Walker's Texas Division in the Civil War, from the Firsthand Accounts by Sgt. John C. Porter, Col. Thomas G. Bonner, and Colonel William B. Ochiltree of 18th Texas Infantry" edited by James Henry Davis. Published in 1999 by Heritage Oak Press, 5349 E. 95th Street, Tulsa, OK 74137. This book is available from the publisher listed above, and also from the author, who will autograph your copy upon request at HeritageOP@aol.com