During the Iuka-Corinth Campaign, September - October 1862, the 8th Arkansas Infantry Battalion was assigned to Brigadier General William L. Cabell's brigade of Brigadier General Dabney H. Maury's Division of Major General Sterling Price's 1st Corps the Confederate (Army of the West). The unit participated in the Battle of Corinth. The battalion suffered significant losses in the rear-guard action at Hatchie's Bridge late on October 5, 1862, and from all accounts fought with great courage.