Hart's Battery, Arkansas Light Artillery (1861
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Hart's Battery was organized in Dallas County, Arkansas, during the late summer of 1861 with 4 officers and 70 men. The unit fought at Elkhorn Tavern, then a section was transferred east of the Mississippi River. This section was eventually consolidated into Cobb's Kentucky Battery. The rest of the company was engaged at Arkansas Post and captured in January, 1863. When exchanged and reorganized, it was attached to the Trans-Mississippi Department and often called 2nd Field Battery or 2nd Battery Mounted. At the end of the war it was with the Reserve Battalion at Marshall, Texas. Captain William Hart was in command.
Harts first battery was ordered disbanded by General Earl Van Dorn after the Battle of Pea Ridge for misconduct in face of the enemy. but the members of the unit crossed the Mississipp river with the Army of the West and were still with that organization in the July 1862 when a court of Inquiry cleared several members of misconduct. By the time the findings were announced, Hart had returned to Arkansas and organized a second battery, which was susquently captured at the Battle of Arkansas Post in January 1863, The Arkansas Post Prisioners were exchanged in April 1863 and eventually transported ot the Army of Tennesse at Tullahoma where they were consolidated. Harts men don't appear to have been consolidated iwth the other Arkansas units.
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The roster of this regiment contains the names of 62) men.
Harts first battery was ordered disbanded by General Earl Van Dorn after the Battle of Pea Ridge for misconduct in face of the enemy. but the members of the unit crossed the Mississipp river with the Army of the West and were still with that organization in the July 1862 when a court of Inquiry cleared several members of misconduct. By the time the findings were announced, Hart had returned to Arkansas and organized a second battery, which was susquently captured at the Battle of Arkansas Post in January 1863, The Arkansas Post Prisioners were exchanged in April 1863 and eventually transported ot the Army of Tennesse at Tullahoma where they were consolidated. Harts men don't appear to have been consolidated iwth the other Arkansas units.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:REFERENCES: Sifakis - Compendium of the Confederate Armies