Showing posts with label 6th AR INF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 6th AR INF. Show all posts

Saturday, July 29, 2017

Shaver’s Brigade Position Marker: On Highway 142, midway between its intersections with Highway 22 & Bark Road, Shiloh National Battlefield


C. S.

SHAVER’S (1ST) BRIGADE

7th Ark., 2d Ark., 6th Ark. 3d Confederate,
Miller’s Tenn. Battery, Swett’s Mississippi Battery

Hardee’s Corps
Army of the Mississippi
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The brigade with its regiments in order from left to right as above, and its batteries in rear, bivouacked at this place Saturday night April 5, 1862.  It advanced Sunday morning at 6 o’clock and was soon engaged with pickets and at 8 o’clock attacked Peabody’s camp.

Friday, September 28, 2012

Union Line of Defense: Reconnoitering Road, Shiloh National Military Park


Finally aware that great numbers of Confederates were marching on their camps, the Union Sixth Division organized its first line of defense along the ridge in front of you.  Henry M. Stanley, a Confederate infantryman, described what it was like here when his regiment tried to break through the Union line:

Union Defense Line
April 6, 1862 - 7:30 A.M.

Still advancing, firing as we moved, I, at last saw a row of little globes of pearly smoke streaked with crimson, breaking out with sportive quickness from a long line of bluey figures in front; and, simultaneously, there broke upon our ears an appalling crash of sound, the series of fusillades following one another with startling suddenness, which suggested to my somewhat moidered sense a mountain upheaved, with huge rocks tumbling and thundering down a slope, and the echoes rumbling and receding through space.






“Twenty thousand muskets were being fired at this stage, but though, accuracy of aim as impossible, owing to our laboring hearts, and the jarring and excitement, many bullets found their destined billets on both sides.”

– Henry M. Stanley
6th Arkansas Infantry



Henry M. Stanley, later a renowned journalist and explorer, served as a private with the “Dixie Grays” of the 6th Arkansas Infantry.  Stanley was only 21 when he marched into his first great battle here.  A fourth of his companions were under 20.


Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Arkansas State Memorial: Shiloh National Military Park


C. S. A.

CONFEDERATE TROOPS FROM ARKANSAS
PRESENT AND ENGAGED AT THE BATTLE OF SHILOH.

REMARKS

THE FOLLOWING NAMED FIELD OFFICERS OF ARKANSAS TROOPS WERE KILLED OR DIED OF WOUNDS RECEIVED ON THE BATTLEFIELD OF SHILOH:

LT. COL. A. D. GRAYSON, 12TH ARKANSAS
LT. COL. JOHN M. DEAN, 7TH ARKANSAS
LT. COL. A. K. PATTON, 15TH ARKANSAS
MAJ. J. T. HARRIS, 15TH ARKANSAS
LT. COL. CHARLES E. PATTERSON, 2ND ARKANSAS, WOUNDED APRIL 6TH, DIED APRIL 7TH.


[Right Side:]

TO THE BRAVE CONFEDERATE DEAD OF ARKANSAS WHO FELL UPON THIS BATTLEFILED.

THIS MONUMENT IS ERRECTED BY THE ARKANSAS DIV. UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY IN THE YEAR 1910


[Back:]

INFANTRY

1ST ARKANSAS (FAGAN)
GIBSON’S BRIGADE, BRAGG’S CORPS.

15TH ARKANSAS (PATTON)
CLEBURNE’S BRIGADE, HARDEE’S CORPS.

2ND ARKANSAS (GOVAN)
6TH ARKANSAS (HAWTHORN)
7TH ARKANSAS (DEAN)
SHAVER’S BRIGADE HARDEE’S CORPS.

8TH ARKANSAS (PATTERSON)
9TH (14TH) ARKANSAS BATTALION (KELLY)
WOOD’S BRIGADE, HARDEE’S CORPS

9TH ARKANSAS (DUNLOP)
10TH ARKANSAS (MERRION)
BOWEN’S BRIGADE, BRECKINREDGE’S CORPS

13TH ARKANSAS (TAPPAN)
STEWART’S BRIGADE, POLK’S CORPS


[Left Side:]

ARTILLERY

CALVERT’S BATTERY, SHOUP’S BATTALION
HUBBARD’S BATTERY, CLEBURNE’S BRIG.
TRIGG’S BATTERY, HARDEE’S CORPS
ROBERT’S BATTERY (UNASSIGNED)