List of Arkansas Union Civil War Units
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American Civil War
The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...
, Arkansas raised a number of units to fight for the Union from African-Americans and Northern sympathizers.
Infantry
- 1st Regiment Arkansas Volunteer Infantry
- 1st Regiment Arkansas Volunteer Infantry (African Descent)
- 1st Battalion Arkansas Volunteer Infantry
- 2nd Regiment Arkansas Volunteer Infantry
- 2nd Regiment Arkansas Volunteer Infantry (African Descent)
- 3rd Regiment Arkansas Volunteer Infantry
- 3rd Regiment Arkansas Volunteer Infantry (African Descent)
- 4th Regiment Arkansas Volunteer Infantry
- 4th Regiment Arkansas Volunteer Infantry (African Descent)
- 5th Regiment Arkansas Volunteer Infantry (African Descent)
- 6th Regiment Arkansas Volunteer Infantry (African Descent)
Cavalry
- 1st Regiment Arkansas Volunteer Cavalry
- 2nd Regiment Arkansas Volunteer Cavalry2nd Regiment Arkansas Volunteer Cavalry (Union)The 2nd Regiment Arkansas Volunteer Cavalry was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Although Arkansas joined the Confederate States of America in 1861, not all of its citizens supported secession...
- 3rd Regiment Arkansas Volunteer Cavalry
- 4th Regiment Arkansas Volunteer Cavalry
Artillery
- 1st Battery, Arkansas Light Artillery
- 1st Battery, Arkansas Light Artillery (African Descent)
See also
- Lists of American Civil War Regiments by State
- Arkansas Civil War Confederate UnitsArkansas Civil War Confederate UnitsArkansas Civil War Confederate Units, a list of units formed from that state for service in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Like most states, Arkansas possessed a prewar Militia organization, which consisted of seventy one regiments, organized into eight brigades, and divided into two...
- United States Colored TroopsUnited States Colored TroopsThe United States Colored Troops were regiments of the United States Army during the American Civil War that were composed of African American soldiers. First recruited in 1863, by the end of the Civil War, the men of the 175 regiments of the USCT constituted approximately one-tenth of the Union...