[1] The authority for organizing the 2d Arkansas infantry volunteers was transmitted by the Secretary of War to Major General J. M. Schofield, commanding the Department of the Missouri, sometime in the month of August, 1863, precise date unknown.

Leaving Clarksville, Arkansas, on the 24th day of March 1864, with eight companies, the regiment reported to Brigadier General Thayer on the 27th day of March, 1864, fifteen miles west of Danville, Arkansas, and from that time forward moved with the 3d division 7th army corps in that disastrous campaign.

The losses incurred by these battles, deaths caused by sickness, and desertions so reduced the regiment that upon our arrival at Little Rock, Arkansas, the organization was declared incomplete.

The two companies (D and G) which had been left at Clarksville rejoined the regiment at Little Rock, and soon after, with the exception of ysell the officers and enlisted men were all mustered, I being at the time absent with leave, having been wounded at Jenkins's Ferry, but was mustered soon after my return to the regiment, to date from July 6, 1864.oh In the month of July, 1864, the regiment was ordered to Lewisburg, Arkansas, where it remained until the 7th day of September, 1864, when it was forced to evacuate the place and return to Little Rock with the 3d Arkansas cavalry on account of the advance of the enemy under General Price, who crossed the Arkansas river at Dardanelle, thirty miles above Lewisburg.

On the 31st day of December, 1864, we received orders from General Edwards to proceed to this place immediately, for the purpose of collecting together the Union people in the country with the view of moving them to Little Rock, on account of an order having been issued for the evacuation of Fort Smith and the surrounding country.

Upon arriving at Clarksville a large number of the men who had deserted at Little Rock and Lewisburg voluntarily rejoined their regiment, and in view of the facts in their cases, have been since restored to duty with loss of pay and allowances during their unauthorized absence, by order of Brigadier General Bussy, commanding 3d division 7th army corps.

On the 28th day of March, 1865, this last order was amended by including Ira D. Bronson as captain, and William W. Tibbs as 2d lieutenant, who, together with 73 men, were assigned to company I; the transfer to date from October 25, 1864.