Walker's Greyhounds

It fought in the Western Theater and the Trans-Mississippi Department, gaining its nickname because the men were able to move long distances rapidly on foot.

When General Walker was given a district command in late 1864 the division was given to Maj. Gen. John H. Forney.

Rushed back to Arkansas by Trans-Mississippi Department Commander Edmund Kirby Smith, they fought at the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry on April 30, 1864, the last engagement of the Camden Expedition.

There it was awaiting the arrival of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in order to make a Last Stand.

Davis failed to arrive, and with the main Confederate armies having surrendered and the war essentially being over, the approximately 8,000 soldiers constituting the remnants of the much depleted division simply went home from Hempstead in late May 1865.