page_title: 15th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Johnson's)
section_title: Reorganization
hierarchical_section_title: 15th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Johnson's) / Battles / Reorganization
caption_attribution_description: English: Colonel Benjamin Whitfield Johnson commanded the 15th (Gee-Johnson's) Arkansas Infantr Regiment at the Battle of Port Hudson, La.
context_page_description: The 15th Arkansas Infantry was a Confederate Army infantry regiment during the American Civil War. The regiment was raised in January 1862 under Colonel James M. Gee. It served in Kentucky and was surrendered at Fort Donelson in February 1862. Reorganized following its parole and exchange under Colonel Benjamin W. Johnson, the regiment served in Louisiana and was again surrendered at Port Hudson in July 1863. Reorganized again following its second parole and exchange, the regiment was finally merged in September 1864 with several other Arkansas regiments into the 3rd Arkansas Consolidated Infantry Regiment.
context_section_description: The soldiers of the regiment were declared exchanged in September 1862, and the regiment was reorganized at Jackson, Mississippi, on October 16, 1862 and assigned to Beall's Brigade, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana.
  At the reorganization in 1862, four Arkansas companies which had originally been assigned to the 40th Tennessee Infantry Regiment were added to the unit to give the legally required ten companies for a regiment. The companies were reorganized as follows:
  Company A – originally organized as Company I, 40th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, commanded by John H. D. Stevenson.
  Company B – originally organized as Company D, 40th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, commanded by Joseph A. Daniel.
  Company C – originally organized as Company A, 15th (Gee's) Arkansas Infantry Regiment, commanded by James H. Franklin.
  Company D – originally organized as Company G, 40th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, commanded by John C. Hubbard.
  Company E – originally organized as Company F, 40th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, commanded by William Walker.
  Company F – originally organized as Company B, 15th (Gee's) Arkansas Infantry Regiment, commanded by Edward C. Wilson.
  Company G – originally organized as Company C, 15th (Gee's) Arkansas Infantry Regiment, commanded by Albert M. Reed.
  Company H – originally organized as Company D, 15th (Gee's) Arkansas Infantry Regiment, commanded by Theophilus Wilkerson.
  Company I – originally organized as Company E, 15th (Gee's) Arkansas Infantry Regiment, commanded by L. W. Matthews.
  Company K – originally organized as Company F, 15th (Gee's) Arkansas Infantry Regiment, commanded by L.C. McClung.
  The following regimental officers were elected:
  Colonel Benjamin Whitfield Johnson.
  Lieutenant Colonel Paul Lynch Lee.
  Major William E. Stewart.
  Adjutant J. E. Baker.
caption: Colonel Benjamin W. Johnson
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