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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...
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113th United States Colored Infantry (US)
aka: Sixth Arkansas Volunteer Infantry (African Descent)
The 113th United States Colored Infantry, part of the United States...
"Warning Against Shooting Pigeons" newspaper clipping
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...
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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 ...
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Arkansas Mounted Rifles [Civil War]
After Arkansas seceded from the Union on May 6, 1861, state troops were mustered into the Confederate army in ...
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Arkansas Mounted Rifles [Mexican War]
The Arkansas Mounted Rifles was a regiment of volunteers from the state who participated in the Mexican War as...
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Arkansas National Guard
aka: Arkansas Department of the Military
The Arkansas National Guard consists of the Arkansas Army National ...
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Arkansas State Guard
The Arkansas State Guard was a military force that performed homeland defense, disaster relief, and search-and...
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Arkansas State Troops (CS)
aka: Army of Arkansas
On May 20, 1861, the Arkansas Secession Convention passed an ordina...
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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...
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 ...
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Bean's Rangers
Captain Jesse Bean’s Ranger Company was one of six companies of mounted militia authorized by Congress in 18...
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Black Union Troops
aka: African American Union Troops
aka: United States Colored Troops
Many former African American slaves and freedmen from Arkansas ans...
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Churchill’s Arkansas Division (CS)
The largest unit of Arkansas Confederate troops during the Civil War, this division saw action in both Arkansa...
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Dobbins's First Arkansas Cavalry (CS)
Dobbins’s (or Dobbin’s) First Arkansas Cavalry was a regiment in the Confederate army that saw action in A...
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Eighteenth Arkansas Infantry (CS)
The Eighteenth Arkansas Infantry was a regiment that served in the Confederate army in both the Western Theate...
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Eighth Arkansas Infantry (CS)
The Eighth Arkansas Infantry was a regiment that served in the Confederate army during the Civil War. Spending...
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Eleventh Arkansas Infantry (CS)
The Eleventh Arkansas Infantry Regiment was a Confederate unit that served in the Western Theater during the A...
Eleventh Regiment, United States Colored Troops (US)
The Eleventh Regiment, United States Colored Troops was organized in Fort Smith (Sebastian County) on Decembe...
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Fifteenth (Johnson's) Arkansas Infantry (CS)
The Fifteenth (Johnson’s) Arkansas Infantry Regiment was a Confederate unit that served in the Western and T...
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Fifteenth (Josey's) Arkansas Infantry (CS)
The Fifteenth Arkansas Infantry Regiment was a Confederate unit that served in the Western Theater during the ...
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Fifteenth (Northwest) Arkansas Regiment (CS)
The Fifteenth (Northwest) Arkansas Infantry Regiment (CS) was established in Bentonville (Benton County) on De...
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Fifth Arkansas Infantry (CS)
The Fifth Arkansas Infantry was a regiment that served in the Confederate army during the Civil War. Spending ...
Fifty-first United States Colored Troops
aka: First Mississippi Infantry Regiment (African Descent)
The Fifty-first United States Colored Troops was a Civil War regime...
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Fifty-seventh Regiment, United States Colored Troops (US)
aka: Fourth Arkansas Infantry (African Descent)
The Fifty-seventh regiment of United States Colored Infantry began ...
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Fifty-third United States Colored Troops
aka: Third Mississippi Infantry Regiment (African Descent)
The Fifty-third United States Colored Troops (USCT) was a Civil War...
First (Crawford’s) Arkansas Cavalry (CS)
aka: Tenth Trans-Mississippi Cavalry
The First (Crawford’s) Arkansas Cavalry Regiment was a Confederat...
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First and Second Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry Regiments
aka: Seventy-Ninth and Eighty-Third United States Colored Troops
The First and Second Kansas Colored Infantry Regiments were African...
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First Arkansas Infantry (US)
The First Arkansas Infantry Volunteers (US) was recruited and organized in Fayetteville (Washington County) by...
First Arkansas Light Artillery (CS)
The First Arkansas Light Artillery was a militia battery mustered on September 27, 1860, at Fort Smith (Sebast...
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First Arkansas Light Artillery Battery (US)
The First Arkansas Light Artillery Battery was a military unit organized from Arkansas Unionists during the Ci...
First Arkansas Light Artillery Battery (African Descent) (US)
aka: Battery H, Second U.S. Colored Artillery (Light)
The First Arkansas Light Artillery Battery (African Descent) was on...