Individuals & Units

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112th United States Colored Infantry (US)
aka: Fifth Arkansas Volunteer Infantry (African Descent)
The 112th United States Colored Infantry was a United States Colore...
113th United States Colored Infantry (US)
aka: Sixth Arkansas Volunteer Infantry (African Descent)
The 113th United States Colored Infantry, part of the United States...
312th Field Signal Battalion’s Pigeon Department
During World War I (1914–1918), homing pigeons emerged as a viable way for militaries to maintain contact wh...
Lucien Abraham (1902–1960)
Lucien Abraham was an Arkansas educator and military officer who rose to the rank of adjutant general of the A...
Charles William Adams (1817–1878)
Charles William Adams served as a Confederate general in Arkansas. A planter and lawyer from Helena (Phillips ...
Arkansas National Guard Adjutants General
The adjutant general is appointed by the governor of Arkansas to a state cabinet-level position as the directo...
John Hanks Alexander (1864–1894)
John Hanks Alexander was the second African American graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Po...
Christopher Columbus Andrews (1829–1923)
As a Union brigadier general, Christopher Columbus Andrews distinguished himself in numerous military campaign...
Richard Nott Antrim (1907–1969)
Richard Nott Antrim was a career U.S. Navy officer who received a Medal of Honor for saving the life of a fell...
Jesse Walter Arbor (1914–2000)
Serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II, Arkansas native Jesse Walter Arbor became one of the first thirt...
Arkansas Department of Veterans Affairs (ADVA)
The Arkansas Department of Veterans Affairs (ADVA) dates back to the post–World War I years and the need to ...
Arkansas Mounted Rifles [Civil War]
After Arkansas seceded from the Union on May 6, 1861, state troops were mustered into the Confederate army in ...
Arkansas Mounted Rifles [Mexican War]
The Arkansas Mounted Rifles was a regiment of volunteers from the state who participated in the Mexican War as...
Arkansas National Guard
aka: Arkansas Department of the Military
The Arkansas National Guard consists of the Arkansas Army National ...
Arkansas State Guard
The Arkansas State Guard was a military force that performed homeland defense, disaster relief, and search-and...
Arkansas State Troops (CS)
aka: Army of Arkansas
On May 20, 1861, the Arkansas Secession Convention passed an ordina...
Civil Air Patrol Arkansas Wing
The Arkansas Wing is one of the fifty-two chapters—including all the states, Puerto Rico, and the District o...
Alexander Asboth (1811–1868)
Born in Hungary, Alexander Sandor Asboth served in the Hungarian army and then in the Union army during the Ci...
Nick Daniel (Nicky) Bacon (1945–2010)
Nick Daniel Bacon stands as one of three people connected to Arkansas to have received the Medal of Honor for...
William Corinth Bacon (1919–2008)
William Corinth Bacon was a decorated career U.S. Air Force officer who flew bombers in World War II and later...
Cullen Montgomery Baker (1835–1869)
Cullen Baker was one of the most notorious outlaws in the United States in the period following the Civil War....
Raymond Henry Bass (1910–1997)
Raymond Henry Bass was an Olympic gold medalist, Gymnastics Hall of Fame honoree, and decorated World War II h...
Battery E, Second U.S. Colored Artillery (Light)
Battery E, Second U.S. Colored Artillery (Light) was one of two artillery units raised in Arkansas during the ...
George Franklin Baucum (1837–1905)
George F. Baucum was a Confederate officer and a Little Rock (Pulaski County) businessman. He served in many m...
William Nelson Rector Beall (1825–1883)
William Nelson Rector Beall served as a Confederate brigadier general from Arkansas during the Civil War. He m...
Bean's Rangers
Captain Jesse Bean’s Ranger Company was one of six companies of mounted militia authorized by Congress in 18...
Harold George Bennett (1940–1965)
Perry County native Harold George Bennett was a Green Beret serving in Vietnam in 1964 when he was captured in...
Edward Baxter Billingsley (1910–1997)
Rear Admiral Edward Baxter Billingsley was a decorated naval officer and veteran of World War II who went on t...
Black Union Troops
aka: African American Union Troops
aka: United States Colored Troops
Many former African American slaves and freedmen from Arkansas ans...
John Charles Black (1839–1915)
A Medal of Honor recipient for valor during the Battle of Prairie Grove and brevet brigadier general of volunt...
William Perkins Black (1842–1916)
A Medal of Honor recipient for valor during the Battle of Pea Ridge, William Perkins Black later served as an ...
Thomas Elwood Blagg (1934–2023)
Tom Blagg was a career soldier and intellectual with diverse talents. In two stints in the Vietnam War, he dis...