page_title: 2nd Arkansas Infantry Regiment
section_title: Organization
hierarchical_section_title: 2nd Arkansas Infantry Regiment / Organization
caption_attribution_description: English: Daniel Chevilette Govan (1829–1911)
context_page_description: The 2nd Arkansas Infantry was an army regiment of the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. The regiment was raised in May 1861 under Colonel Thomas C. Hindman. It served throughout the war in the western theater, in the Confederate Army of Tennessee, seeing action in the Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia campaigns. Following its depletion in numbers, the regiment was consolidated several times with other Arkansas regiments, finally merging in 1865 into the 1st Arkansas Consolidated Infantry Regiment. The regiment has no connection with the 2nd Regiment, Arkansas State Troops, which participated in the Battle of Wilson's Creek, and is also separate from the 2nd Arkansas Consolidated Infantry Regiment, which was formed in 1864 from remnants of regiments surrendered at Vicksburg and Port Hudson.
context_section_description: The regiment was organized at Helena, Arkansas, in the spring of 1861 at the expense of Thomas Carmichael Hindman, who had only recently resigned from the United States Congress with Arkansas's secession and the formation of the Confederate States of America. By June 1, 1861, Hindman had raised ten companies from eastern and central Arkansas which would eventually become known as the 2nd Arkansas Infantry. The regiment was composed primarily of men from the following counties:
  Company A – of Phillips County commanded by Captain T.C. Anderson:,
  Company B – of Phillips County, commanded by Captain John Kane.
  Company C (old) – of Phillips County.
  Company C – of Phillips County commanded by Captain John J. Foreman.
  Company C (new) – of Phillips County.
  Company D – of Phillips County, commanded by James E. Richards.
  Company E – of Phillips County.
  Company E (old) – of Phillips County, commanded by Barton Y. Truner.
  Company E (new) – of Transfers from 11th Arkansas Infantry.
  Company F – of Phillips County, originally commanded by Daniel C. Govan, later commanded by Captain Richard S. Boyd.
  Company G – of Bradley County, commanded by Captain William D. Mackey.
  Company H – the "Southern Guards", of Jefferson County, commanded by Captain Joseph W. Bocage. This company was originally organized on December 18, 1860, as a volunteer company in the 24th Regiment, Arkansas State Militia.
  Company I – of Bradley County, commanded by W.J. McKinney.
  Company K – of Saline County, commanded by Captain M.D Brown.
  Colonel Hindman asked the state to provide muskets, clothing and ten days rations so his men could "fight for our country." Hindman also asked to be ordered to march to Virginia. His requests were not complied with, so he stopped steamers loaded with sugar for Cincinnati and Pittsburgh, and sold their cargo. He then purchased all the arms available and took his command to Memphis. Other organizations joined him: Lieutenant Colonel John S. Marmaduke's battalion of eight companies, which would eventually become 3rd Confederate Infantry; 6th (Phifer’s) Arkansas Cavalry Battalion, under Major Charles W. Phifer, and Captain Swett's Mississippi battery of four guns. This combined force, known temporarily as "Hindman's Legion", was ultimately ordered to assemble with the other Arkansas troops assembling at Pocahontas, where they were mustered into Confederate service by companies between May 26 and June 26, 1861, and assigned to Hardee's Division.
  
  The regiment was commanded by Colonels Thomas C. Hindman, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph W. Bocage, Colonel Daniel C. Govan, Lieutenant Colonel J. W. Scaife, and E. Warfield; Lieutenant Colonels Jos. W. Bocage, E. G. Brasher, R. F. Harvey, and Charles Patterson; and Major A. T. Meek.
   Two of the regiment's officers, Thomas C. Hindman and Daniel C. Govan, were promoted to general. Hindman would later be wounded in action and receive a promotion to major general, ending the war as Arkansas' highest-ranking officer.
caption: Daniel Chevilette Govan, began his service by raising a Volunteer Company in Phillips County, Arkansas, he would eventually command a brigade under General Patrick Cleburne, Army of Tennessee
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