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Companies recruited from
Company
"A" Jefferson
"B" Union
"C" Jefferson
"D" Drew
"E" Bradley
"F" Drew
"G" Bradley
"H" Jefferson
"I" Jefferson
"K" Ashley
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9th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
Confederate States Army
The 9th Arkansas Infantry was organized in Pine Bluff from recruits of several
southern & eastern Arkansas counties. It was mustered into military service on
July 20, 1861, at Pine Bluff.
Sometimes called the "Fighting Parsons Regiment" because a reported 42 ordained
Protestant Ministers were enlisted within its ranks from regimental command to
privates. The 9th Arkansas was the first military unit to use Camp Lee in the
Sulphur Springs area as a training camp.
The 9th Arkansas served with distinction & valor for the duration of the war &
was engaged in most of the major battles with the Army of Tennessee &
Mississippi.
It suffered heavy casualties durings its' attack of the "Hornet's Nest," at the
Battle of Shiloh, where General Albert johnson was killed directing the 9th
Arkansas' assault of the Union's position. It suffered similar casualties at the
Battle of Franklin & Nashville, Tennesseee.
The survivors of the 9th Arkansas laid down their arms with General Joseph
Johnson at Bennett's House, Durham Station, North Carolina, April 26, 1865.
To those men of the 9th Arkansas Infantry Regiment, courage was a common trait.
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Major Engagements
Belmont, Mo. - November 7, 1862
Shiloh, Tenn. - April 6 & 7, 1862
Corinth, Miss. - October 3 & 4, 1862
Champion Hill, Miss. - May 16, 1863
Jackson, Miss. - July 12, 1863
Chattachoochee River, G. - July 8, 1864
Atlanta, Ga. - July 22, 1864
Ezra Chaple, Ga. - July 28, 1864
Franklin, Tenn. - November 30, 1864
Nashville, Tenn. - December 15 & 16, 1864
Averysbourough, N.C. - March 16, 1865
Bentonville, North Carolina - March 19 - 21, 1865
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These headstones are placed here as a memorial to
that Confederate Soldier whose service record reflect he died at the Suphur
Springs Hospital. E. Colvin, D. Taylor, September 2001.
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April 12, 1997
Cable fence, arches, & flag poles erected by Pine Bluff Sons & Daughters of
Confederate Veterans.
Materials donated by International Paper Co.
Ralph Baggett
Earl & Leonna Beadle
Edgar & Sue Colvin
Arline Dickey
Marjo Dill
Jerry Lawrence
Susie Marie Milton
Bettye Whitten
Jim Wilson
Edie Railsback
Glenn Railsback
Andy Taylor
David Taylor
Doyle Taylor
Guy Taylor
Marker by Edgar Colvin - 1997
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This cemetery is dedicated to those persons who
served the southern cause and died while stationed, or in hospital at Camp
White, Sulphur Springs, Camp Shavers, Camp Lee, or Camp Holmes' Sulphur Springs
/ Pine Bluff, Ar. May 1861 until July 1863.
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A southern mother's son
That is known but to God
The empty chair now lies
Beneath this southern sod
The day has ended his duty done
He now rest there unknown
Gone but never forgotten.
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Reb' solider Gets Heroe's Burial
Confederate Re-enactors Pay Respects
By Cynthia Barefield Williams of the Commercial Staff
October 6, 1997
The remains of a Confederate soldier were given a hero's farewell Sunday at
Sulphur Springs, after spending more than a century in an unmarked grave near
Pine Bluff.
Civil War re-enactors from Texas, Arkansas and Mississippi, and descendants of
Confederateand Union veterans gatered at the Camp White Sulphur Springs
Confederate Cemetery southwest of Pine Bluff for the formal service of
reinterment.
The soldier, thought to have been a member of a Texas unit that trained in the
area, did sometime around 1862 at a site about two miles east of the cemetery.
He was buried and apparently forgotten until his body was discovered during a
murder investigation in 1977.
On Sunday afternoon, a drum cadence signaled the start of the procession from
the Sulphur Springs Lodge Hall to the nearby cemetery on Luckwood Road, with the
wooden casket borne on a black gun carriage pulled by four horses. A single
yellow rose was placed atop the casket as a remembrance of the soldier's home
state.
Covered by the first National Flag of the United States of America, the casket
was carried by an honor guard of six men into the cemetery, followed by a
riderless horse and a column of reenactors enduring the near-90-degree heat in
wool uniforms of butternut and gray.
Not only were there soldiers in uniform, but a few Southern belles, two "widows
in mourning" who came from Grenada, Miss., to pay their respects, and two
preachers - one in a kilt and one in military parson's attire.
A spectator, Richard Knox III of Pine Bluff, wore a soldier's cap and a reunion
medal that belonged to his grandfather, R.M. Knox, who served in the 1st
Mississippi Cavalry Corps under the command of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest.
During the memorial service, state Sen. Jay Bradford of Pine Bluff recalled his
own Confederate heritage and said that regardless of whether the soldiers had
Confederate or Union loyalties, all were Americans, "worthy of our love and
respect."
We do not meet here today to glorify war only to remember and pay tributes to
our forebears, to those who fought and died to build the United States we enjoy
today," Bradford told the crowd of around 200.
Jerry Lawrence of Pine Bluff commander of the Patrick R. Cleburne Camp, Sons of
Confederate Veterans, gave a brief history of the cemetery.
In the early 1860's, Lawrence said Sulphur Springs was just one of several
out-of-the-way places in Arkansas where camps were set up to train Confederate
soldiers.
Although the history of the area has been commingled with both myth and legend,
it was disease - including measles and smallpox - that swept through the ranks
and killed the soldiers camped at Sulphur Springs, Lawrence said.
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