calsfoundation@cals.org
November 15, 2009
In 1861, Confederate general William J. Hardee was dispatched to the northeast border of Arkansas to organize the state troops for Confederate service. Within a few months of his arrival, Hardee moved back east of the Mississippi River, taking with him many of the Arkansas troops he had been in charge of organizing. Many of those same Arkansas men served under Hardee for the duration of the war.