18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment ( Carroll ' s ) The 18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment ( Carroll ' s ) ( 1862 – 1865 ) was a Confederate Army infantry regiment during the American Civil War . The regiment was raised in April 1862 under the command of Col . D Carroll . It served east of the Mississippi in several actions before being surrendered at Port Hudson in July 1863 . Re - organized , the regiment was finally merged with several other Arkansas units to form the 2nd Arkansas Consolidated Infantry Regiment . Designation . This unit was known as 18th ( Carroll ' s ) Arkansas Infantry . There was another regiment designated as the 18th Arkansas . When Lieutenant - Colonel John Sappington Marmaduke ’ s 1st Arkansas Infantry Battalion was increased to a regiment , it was briefly designated as the 18th ( Marmaduke ’ s ) Arkansas Infantry Regiment . It was subsequently redesignated as the 3rd Confederate Infantry Regiment . Organization . The 18th Arkansas Infantry was organized at DeValls Bluff , Arkansas , on April 2 , 1862 , composed of ten volunteer companies from central Arkansas : David W . Carroll , captain of Company A , was appointed colonel ; John N . Daly , a private in Company I , was appointed lieutenant - colonel ; and Robert Hamilton Crockett , a private in Company E , was appointed major . Battles . Soon after being organized , the regiment was ordered to Mississippi , along with the rest of General Earl Van Dorn ' s Army of the West . The unit boarded a steamer at Des Arc and moved down White River , out at its mouth , then up the Mississippi River and landed at Memphis , Tennessee . The Confederate commander at Memphis reported on April 7 that Colonel Carroll ' s command with a 817 soldiers was present and armed with endfield rifles . The unit was assigned to the Brigade of Brigadier General Albert Rust . The regiment was immediately ordered with the remainder of Rust ' s Brigade to Fort Pillow , approximately north of Memphis . The unit moved via steamer to Fort Pillow . At Fort Pillow the regiment saw their first enemy fire , during the bombardment of Fort Pillow by Union gunboats . The new regiment got off to an inauspicious , indeed , a tragic start . Measles broke out among the men almost immediately , and by the time the regiment arrived at its assigned station at Fort Pillow , near Fulton , Tennessee , it had become a full - fledged epidemic . It is possible to track the movements of the regiment in April 1862 by following the bodies . The unfortunate soldiers of the 18th Arkansas were dropping like flies , and every camp between DeValls Bluff and Fort Pillow contained the graves of those who had died during the night . At Fort Pillow , the regiment was literally decimated by the epidemic . The extremely muddy conditions and very poor quality of the water supply at Fort Pillow undoubtedly contributed to these losses . By the time the epidemic had run its course , over a fourth of the men were dead , discharged or simply stricken from the rolls . The unit remained at Fort Pillow for about two weeks . The unit left Fort Pillow on April 26 , moved back to Memphis and then on to Corinth , Mississippi . In early May 1862 the Confederate Army underwent an army - wide reorganization due to the passage of the Conscription Act by the Confederate Congress in April 1862 . All twelve - month regiments had to re - muster and enlist for two additional years or the duration of the war ; a new election of officers was ordered ; and men who were exempted from service by age or other reasons under the Conscription Act were allowed to take a discharge and go home . Officers who did not choose to stand for re - election were also offered a discharge . The reorganization was accomplished among all the Arkansas regiments in and around Corinth , Mississippi , following the Battle of Shiloh . Colonel Carroll was forced to resign due to illness , and was succeeded by Lieutenant - Colonel Daly . During the Iuka - Corinth Campaign , the 18th Arkansas was assigned along with the 19th , 20th and 21st Arkansas Infantry Regiment ( Craven ' s ) , and the 8th Arkansas Infantry Battalion to Brigadier General William L . Cabell ' s brigade of Brigadier General Dabney H . Maury ' s Division of Major General Sterling Price ' s Corps the Confederate ( Army of the West ) . The 18th Arkansas fought at the Battle of Iuka , Mississippi , September 16 , 1862 , and then ensured its place in history at the Second Battle of Corinth , Mississippi , October 4 , 1862 . From all contemporary accounts , the 18th Arkansas performed with magnificent courage at Corinth . Mustering a little over 300 men on the morning of the battle , only 43 answered the roll at the end of the day . Forming in a line of battle , the 18th Arkansas made a breath - taking charge under an enfilading fire from the entrenched Federal troops . Climbing through and over fallen timber , the 18th Arkansas relentlessly advanced right up to the enemy ’ s breastworks , where the withering fire melted the regiment away . Colonel Daly , leading the charge , sword in hand , was mortally wounded . Captain Parish , of Company H , immediately assumed command and rallied the regiment to continue the charge . Although he , too , was shot down , he survived the battle and received a meritorious promotion to lieutenant - colonel for his gallant conduct . Colonel Daly died of his wounds on October 5 , 1862 , and was succeeded by Col . Robert Hamilton Crockett , of Arkansas County . Following the battle of Corinth , the 18th Arkansas and its sister regiments of the 2nd Brigade were ordered to Port Hudson , Louisiana . Sorely depleted after the events of April to October 1862 , the 18th Arkansas underwent several field consolidations with other units while assigned to the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana . Field consolidations were considered to be temporary , and the component regiments continued to maintain separate muster rolls . On January 7 , 1863 Major General Franklin Gardner issued General Order No . 5 which consolidated several under strength Arkansas units : The order was modified in February 1863 and the 18th Arkansas was placed in a consolidated regiment with the 14th and 23rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment s . Logan ' s consolidated regiment consisted of the 11th and the Griffith ' s 17th Arkansas . The Johnson ' s 15th Arkansas was assigned to Crockett ' s consolidated regiment instead of the 17th . The regiment endured forty - eight day siege , and was surrendered to General Nathaniel P . Banks on July 9 , 1863 . Following the surrender the officers were sent as prisoners to Johnson ' s Island Military Prison . Two audacious lieutenants of Company K , however , James W . Hellums and George P . Atkins , escaped from their captors by jumping from the Union transport into the muddy water of the Mississippi River between Napoleon and Helena , swam ashore , and eventually reached the Confederate lines . After the fall of Port Hudson , the enlisted personnel of the 18th Arkansas returned to Arkansas and served as mounted infantry as a part of Colonel Thomas Pleasant Dockery Brigade during the Camden Expedition in the Spring of 1864 . The 18th Arkansas was involved in the following engagements : Final Consolidation and Surrender . There are few records of the 18th Arkansas after the fall of Port Hudson . They spent the remainder of the war in the Trans - Mississippi Army . The remnants of the regiment reorganized in southwest Arkansas , but were eventually consolidated with the remnants of the 23rd Arkansas and other Port Hudson units to form the 2nd Arkansas Consolidated Infantry Regiment . The 2nd Arkansas Consolidated Infantry was surrendered with the Department of the Trans - Mississippi , General Kirby Smith commanding , May 26 , 1865 . When the Trans - Mississippi Department surrendered , all of the Arkansas infantry regiments were encamped in and around Marshall , Texas ( war - ravaged Arkansas no longer able to subsist the army ) . The regiments were ordered to report to Shreveport , Louisiana , to be paroled . Virtually none of them did so . Some soldiers went to Shreveport on their own to be paroled , but the regiments simply disbanded without formally surrendering . For the most part , the men simply went home .