Arkansas 23rd Infantry Cavalry (Confederate)
1862-04-25
Organized - Arkansas 23rd Infantry Cavalry - Arkansas
1862-04-29
Battle - Siege of Corinth - Corinth, Mississippi
Union forces had captured the railroad junction and important transportation center at Corinth, Mississippi in the spring of 1862 after their victory at Shiloh. After the Battle of Iuka in September, Maj. Gen. Sterling Price's Confederate Army of the West marched to Ripley, Mississippi where it joined Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn's Army of West Tennessee. Van Dorn took command of the combined force numbering about 22,000 men. The Rebels marched southeast toward Corinth, hoping to recapture it and then sweep int…READ MORE
1862-10-03
Leadership Change - Regiment - Lieutenant Colonel A. A. Pennington
Lieutenant ColonelA. A. Pennington
1862-10-03
Battle - Battle of Corinth - Corinth, Mississippi
Not to be confused with Siege of Corinth. Also known as Second Battle of Corinth.READ MORE
1863-05-21
Leadership Change - Regiment - Colonel O.P. Lyles
ColonelO.P. Lyles
1863-05-21
Leadership Change - Brigade - Brigadier General William Beall
Brigadier GeneralWilliam Beall
1863-05-21
Leadership Change - Division - Major General Franklin Gardner
Major GeneralFranklin Gardner
1863-05-21
Battle - Port Hudson - East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana; East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana
In cooperation with Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's final offensive against Vicksburg, Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks's army moved against the Confederate stronghold at Port Hudson on the Mississippi River. Like Vicksburg, Port Hudson was located atop high bluffs at the river bank that commanded the river. On May 11th, Banks learned that some Confederates had been moved from Port Hudson to support the forces defending Vicksburg, so he sought to move upon the garrison before those troops could be replaced. Banks…READ MORE
1864-10-23
Leadership Change - Regiment - Colonel Oliver P. Lyle
ColonelOliver P. Lyle
1864-10-23
Leadership Change - Division - Major General James F. Fagan
Major GeneralJames F. Fagan
1864-10-23
Battle - Westport - Westport, Missouri
The Battle of Westport, fought October 21-23, was the largest battle west of the Mississippi River and the decisive battle of Confederate Gen. Stirling Price's 1864 Missouri campaign. Directions guide the visitor to the first of twenty-five narrative markers on a 32-mile, self-guided automobile tour and a self-guided walking tour of Byram's Ford and the Big Blue Battlefield. Each marker provides directions to the next stop on the tour. A written brochure is available from the Battle of Westport Visitor Cen…READ MORE
1864-10-25
Leadership Change - Division - Major General James Fleming Fagan
Major GeneralJames Fleming Fagan
1864-10-25
Battle - Mine Creek - Linn County, Kansas
About six miles south of Trading Post, Kansas, where the Marais de Cygnes cavalry engagement had occurred earlier in the day, the Union brigades of Col. Frederick Benteen and Col. John Phillips, of Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton's Provisional Cavalry Division, overtook a retreating Confederate cavalry column from Maj. Gen Sterling Price's Army of Missouri crossing Mine Creek. The rebels, stalled by their 500-wagon supply train crossing the rain-swollen ford, formed a line of about 7,000 men on the north side…READ MORE
1865-05-11
Mustered Out - Arkansas 23rd Infantry Cavalry - Arkansas
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