[ A big THANK YOU to Lynn Groves for transcribing this document for the webpage! ]
HART'S ARKANSAS BATTERY
Hart's Arkansas Battery, also known as the Dallas Artillery of the Dallas
Light Artillery, was recruited in Dallas County, AR by Captain William Hart. The
battery was mustered into the service in late 1861.
Captured in early 1863, the battery was later exchanged and continued in
service in the Trans-Mississippi Department.
On November 19, 1864, the Confederate Trans-Mississippi authorities
attempted to reorganize the batteries in their command. As a result of this
reorganization the battery was designated the Second Arkansas Field Battery.
This was an unofficial, administrative designation and had no standing with the
authorities in Richmond.
Listed below are the two engagements in which the battery participated:
Battle, Pea Ridge, Bentonville, Leetown, and Elkhorn Tavern, AR
(Mar. 6 - 8, 1862)
Engagement and Captured, Fort Hindman, AR Post, AR
(Jan. 10 - 11, 1863)
On January 1, 1862, the battery's armament was listed as "four old iron
pieces." When captured at Fort Hindman, it was a six gun battery, having four
six pounders and two ten pounders as it's weapons. Finally, on June 1, 1865,
the day before the unit was included in the surrender of Confederate troops at
Galveston, TX, June 2, 1865, it was reported that the battery had no guns. It was
stationed at Marshall, TX at the time.
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