3rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment, CSA

3rd Infantry Regiment, assembled at Lynchburg, Virginia, in June, 1861, contained men from Ashley, Drew, Desha, Hot Spring, Union, and Dallas counties. Assigned to H.R. Jackson's command, the unit took part in Lee's Cheat Mountain Campaign, then moved to Winchester and served under T.J. Jackson. Later it was assigned to General J. G. Walker's, J. B. Robertson's, and J. Gregg's command and became part of the Texas Brigade. After fighting in the Seven Days' Battles the 2nd Arkansas Battalion merged into the regiment. It went on to participate in many conflicts of the Army of Northern Virginia from the Maryland Campaign to Cold Harbor, except when it was with Longstreet at Suffolk, Chickamauga, and Knoxville. The 3rd was active in the long Petersburg siege north of the James River and later the Appomattox Campaign. In December, 1861, it totaled 756 men, and reported 15 casualties at the Greenbrier River and 182 during the Maryland Campaign. Of the 479 engaged at Gettysburg, thirty-five percent were disabled. The regiment surrendered with 15 officers and 130 men. The field officers were Colonels Van H. Manning, Albert Rust, and Robert S. Taylor; Lieutenant Colonels Seth M. Barton and William H. Tebbs; and Majors J. Hickson Capers, and John W. Reedy, Samuel W. Smith, and W.K. Wilkins.

Partial Roster

Company A

John Ellsberry Edgmon (1837-1864) Private. Son of Braxton Edgmon and Mary Ann Casey, husband of Sarah Jane Casey. He transferred to Company A of the 18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment and later to Company K of the Arkansas Calvary. He was wounded in a skirmish near Okolona, Mississippi in  February 1864. Recovered and transferred to Company I of the 12 Kentucky Cavalry. He was erroneous reported killed on 11 Jun 1864. He and his widow tried several times to obtain a pension and were denied.

Company I

Moses Edward Garner (1830-1872), Private. Son of Abner Garner and Margaret Hardin, husband of Asenia Catherine Finch. Transferred from the Company B of the 2nd Arkansas Infantry Battalion on 18 July 1862. On 9 April 1865 he was listed as a Prisoner of War of the Army of Northern Virginia and was paroled at Appomattox, Virginia on 12 April 1865 when General Lee surrendered to General Grant. Buried in Springhill Cemetery, Faulkner County, Arkansas.

William B. Morris (c1834-??) Private. Son of Ethel Sumney Morris and Dorcas Stone. Transferred from Company B of the 2nd Arkansas Infantry Battalion on 18 July 1862; wounded at Chickamauga, Georgia on 19 September 1863; retired to Invalid Corps on 14 December 1864; filed Arkansas pension application #2350 from Grant county on 21 August 1896; attended Confederate reunion at Princeton, Arkansas, in 1899, listing residence as Grapevine, Arkansas; bought land in Grant county in 1860 and 1882.