page_title: 2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles
section_title: Battles
hierarchical_section_title: 2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles / Battles
caption_attribution_description: English: Hezekiah L Cash, served as a Private in Company E, 2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles. Enlisted 10/15/61 at Camp Holloway, MO Residence: Clark County, AR, Age 19, Height: 5'8", Gray eyes, Light hair, Fair complexion
context_page_description: The 2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles was a Confederate Army infantry regiment that served during the American Civil War. Raised in 1861, the regiment consisted of nine companies, which were drawn from various counties in Arkansas. Throughout the course of the war, the 2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles fought in a number of battles, including those at Wilson's Creek and Pea Ridge, and participated in a number of campaigns such as Tullahoma, Atlanta and the Carolinas. The regiment's final battle came at Bentonville in March 1865 after which its remaining personnel were consolidated into the 1st Arkansas Consolidated Mounted Rifles.
context_section_description: Colonel McIntosh was educated at the United States Military Academy. He was impetuous to a degree that scorned all caution Being ordered by General McCulloch into the Indian Territory against the Creek chief, Hopoeithleyohola, he dispersed the Indian Federal organization. It is said his regiment was deployed in groups of two for five miles, when he at its head began the attack upon the Indian camp. He was speedily promoted to brigadier-general, and Embry became colonel. The regiment took part in the battles of Oak Hills and Elkhorn, and in the Kentucky campaign under E. Kirby Smith. Among its battles were Richmond, Ky., Murfreesboro, Jackson, Miss., Chickamauga, Resaca, Atlanta, Ezra Church, Lovejoy's Station, Jonesboro, Moore's Station, Franklin, Tenn., Nashville, Sugar Creek, and Bentonville, N.C. In accordance with Confederate Adjutant and Inspector General's Office Order Number 131, ten soldiers of the regiment were recognized for courage and good conduct on the field for the Battle of Murfreesboro The unit is entitled to the following Campaign Participation Credits:
  Battle of Wilson's Creek, Missouri, August 10, 1861
  Battle of Chustenahlah, Oklahoma, December 26, 1861
  Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, March 6–8, 1862
  Siege of Corinth, Mississippi, April to June 1862
  Kentucky Campaign, Kentucky, August–October 1862
  Battle of Richmond, Kentucky, August 29–30, 1862
  Battle of Perryville, Kentucky, October 8, 1862
  Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, December 31, 1862, to January 3, 1863
  Vicksburg Campaign
  Battle of Jackson, Mississippi, May 14, 1863
  Siege of Jackson, Mississippi, July 5–25, 1863
  Chickamauga Campaign,
  Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, September 19–20, 1863
  Meridian Campaign,
  Battle of Meridian, Mississippi, February 14–20, 1864
  Atlanta Campaign, May to September 1864
  Battle of Dug Gap, Georgia, September 10–11, 1863
  Battle of Resaca, Georgia, May 14–15, 1864
  Battle of New Hope Church, Georgia, May 25 – June 4, 1864
  Battle of Pickett's Mill, Georgina, May 27, 1864
  Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia, June 27, 1864.
  Battle of Moore's Hill, Georgia, July 28, 1862
  Battle of Peachtree Creek, Georgia, July 20, 1864.
  Siege of Atlanta, Georgia, July 22, 1864.
  Battle of Lovejoy's Station, Georgia, August 20, 1864
  Franklin–Nashville Campaign September 18 to December 27, 1864
  Battle of Moon's Station, Georgia, October 3, 1864
  Battle of Spring Hill, Tennessee, November 29, 1864.
  Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, November 30, 1864.
  Battle of Nashville, Tennessee, December 15–16, 1864.
  Battle of Sugar Creek, Tennessee, December 26, 1864.
  Carolinas Campaign, February to April 1865.
  Battle of Bentonville, North Carolina, March 19–21, 1865.
  After the Battle of Nashville, Tennessee, the Arkansas regiments of Reynolds' Brigade marched via Bainbridge, Alabama, Tuscumbia, Iuka and Corinth to Tupelo, Mississippi, where they went into camp on January 10, 1865. They departed Tupelo on January 30 and marched to West Point, Mississippi. From West Point they traveled by rail to Selma, Alabama. From Selma they traveled by steamboat to Montgomery, then by rail to Columbus, Georgia. From Columbus they marched via Macon and Milledgeville to Mayfield, Georgia. From Mayfield they traveled by rail to Augusta, Georgia. From there they marched to Newberry, South Carolina. On March 19, 1865, they fought their last major engagement at the Battle of Bentonville, North Carolina. They then marched to Smithfield, North Carolina, where the entire brigade was consolidated into a single understrength regiment, the 1st Consolidated Mounted Rifles on April 9, 1865.
caption: Hezekiah L. Cash, Company E
  photographed in the early 1860s
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