12th Arkansas Sharpshooter Battalion
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- June 1862 - Organized with 4 companies composed of men selected from the following units:
- October 3-4, 1862 - Corinth
- March 14-27, 1863 - Steele's Bayou Expedition
- March 20, 1863 - Rolling Fork
- April 29, 1863 - Grand Gulf
- May-July 1863 - Vicksburg Campaign
- May 1, 1863 - Port Gibson
- May 16, 1863 - Champion Hill
- May 17, 1863 - Big Black River Bridge
- May-July 1863 - Siege of Vicksburg
- July 4, 1863 - Battalion surrendered at Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi
- Paroled there later that month
- Apparently never reorganized[1]
- March-May 1864 - Camden's Expedition?
- April 25, 1864 - Marks' Mill?
DESIGNATIONS
- Department #2 / Army of the West / Maury's Division / Dockery's/Cabell's Brigade (June-September 1862)
- Department #2 / Army of West Tennessee / Price's Corps / Maury's Division / Cabell's Brigade (September-October 1862)
- Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / Army of West Tennessee / Price's Corps / Cabell's Brigade (October 1862)
- Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / Army of West Tennessee / Price's Corps / Bowen's Division / Hébert's Brigade (October 1862)
- Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / Army of West Tennessee / Price's Corps / Bowen's Division / Craven's Brigade (October-December 1862)
- Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / Army of North Mississippi / 2nd Corps / Bowen's Division / Craven's/Green's Brigade (December 1862-January 1863)
- Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / Army of North Mississippi / 2nd Corps / Price's/Forney's Division / Green's Brigade (January-February 1863)
- Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / 2nd Military District / Forney's/Bowen's Division / Green's Brigade (March-April 1863)
- Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / Bowen's Division / Green's Brigade (April-July 1863)
Regimental Roster
- First Commander: William F. Rapley (Major)
- C.L. Jackson (Lieutenant Colonel - temporary assignment)
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Regiment Statistical Information
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Legacy
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Notes
- ↑ There is one reference to the battalion on April 20, 1864 as being in the Trans-Mississippi Department / District of Arkansas / Fagan's Cavalry Division. This was likely a fragment of the command serving mounted within Arkansas
Sources
- Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies. Florida and Arkansas. New York: Facts on File, 1992. Print. (Pages 92-93)
