33rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment The 33rd Arkansas Infantry ( 1861 – 1865 ) was a Confederate Army infantry regiment during the American Civil War . The unit served in the Department of the Trans - Mississippi from its formation in the summer of 1862 until the surrender in May 1865 . Organization . The 33rd Arkansas was created from existing companies by Special Order Number 28 , issued by Major General Thomas C . Hindman on July 11 , 1862 : These companies were ordered to Camp White Sulphur Springs in mid July 1862 in two battalions which were organized there as the 33rd Arkansas . These two battalions arrived a week or so apart at Sulphur Springs , one in early July and the other after July 15 . At one point the regiment included 11 companies . Once the 33rd Arkansas was assembled as a regiment at White Sulphur Springs , it was entered into a camp of instruction under Colonel Robert G . Shaver . The regiment remained at Camp White Sulphur Springs until October 4 , 1862 when it was ordered north as part of a brigade commanded by Colonel Shavers . When finally mustered into confederate service the regiment was composed of volunteer companies from the following counties : The regimental officers at the formation of the regiment were : African Americans in Confederate Ranks . The 33rd Arkansas is one of the few regiments that included the names of African American servants and slaves on its muster rolls . While it was not uncommon for slaves and servants to accompany their masters to war , some even serving on the battlefield , it was uncommon for them to actually be carried on the unit ' s muster rolls . The following African Americans are included on the 33rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment ' s Muster rolls : Battles . The 33rd Arkansas was assigned to Colonel Robert G . Shaver ' s 2nd Brigade of Daniel M . Frost ' s 3rd Division of Major General Thomas C . Hindman ' s 1st Corps of the Army of the Trans - Mississippi for the Battle of Prairie Grove on December 7 , 1862 . The other regiments in the brigade were the 27th , 38th , and Adams ' Arkansas Infantry Regiment s . According to Colonel Robert G . Shaver ' s report on the Battle of Prairie Grove , the 38th was ordered to support Colonel Dandridge McRae ' s Brigade during the fight at Prairie Grove . After Prairie Grove the unit retreated to Van Buren , with the rest of Hindman ' s Army . On February 28 , 1862 , Brigadier General J . C . Tappan , formerly commander of the 13th Arkansas Infantry Regiment , was ordered to assume command of Shaver ' s brigade , consisting of the 38th Arkansas Infantry Regiment , commanded by Colonel Robert G . Shaver , the 27th Arkansas Infantry Regiment commanded by Colonel James R . Shaler , and the 33rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment commanded by Colonel Hiram L . Grinstead . They remained with Tappan ' s Brigade through the remainder of the war . General Tappan was ordered to move his brigade to Louisiana to support General Taylor ' s operations against General ' s Grant ' s forces laying siege to Vicksburg Mississippi . The 33rd spent the month of July 1863 in the vicinity of Delhi , Louisiana where they conducted raids on Federal interests between Delhi and the Mississippi River . Tappan ' s brigade was ordered to return to Arkansas , via Pine Bluff , in August 1863 . The Tappan ' s Brigade and the 33rd Arkansas missed the Battle of Helena on July 4 , 1863 , because of its operations in Louisiana . Tappan ' s Brigade and the 33rd returned to Arkansas in August 1863 , and were involved in the defense of Little Rock . When Little Rock fell on September 10 , 1863 , the regiment withdrew to southern Arkansas and went into winter quarters in Hempstead County . In the Spring of 1864 , the Churchill ' s Division , with Tappan ' s Brigade moved south to oppose Union General Nathaniel Banks ' Red River Campaign in north - central Louisiana in March and early April 1864 . The division arrived during the Battle of Mansfield on April 8 , 1864 , but was not committed to the battle and occupied a position on the flank of General Taylor ' s division . Brigadier General Churchill was placed in command of both his own division and Brigadier General Parson ' s Division during the pursuit of the enemy from Mansfield to Pleasant Hill , Louisiana so Brigadier General Tappan assumed command of Churchill ' s Division . While Tappan commanded the Division , Colonel Grinstead assumed command of Tappan ' s Brigade and led it through the fight at Pleasant Hill , on April 9 , 1864 . General Tappan described the action at Pleasant Hill as follows : < ref name = " Arkansas , Confederate Military History pp . 244 / 5 " > Louisiana and Arkansas , Confederate Military History , Gen . Clement A . Evans , ed . , The Blue and Grey Press , Vol . X , n . d . , pp . 244 / 5 < / ref > Churchill ' s Division marched back north into Arkansas to deal with the other part of the Federal advance , General Frederick Steele ' s Camden Expedition . The division arrived after a long forced march at Woodlawn , Arkansas on April 26 , where they rested overnight , then joined the pursuit of Steele ' s retreating army , catching it trying to cross the Saline River near Jenkins ' Ferry . The regimental commander , Colonel Hiram Lane Grinstead , was killed in action at Jenkins ' Ferry . The regiment sustained 92 men killed and wounded in the fight at Jenkins ' Ferry . The regiment was engaged in the following battles : Surrender . This regiment surrendered with the Department of the Trans - Mississippi , General E . Kirby Smith commanding , May 26 , 1865 . With few exceptions , the Arkansas Infantry regiments in the Trans - Mississippi simply disbanded without formally surrendering . 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 but none of them did so . Some individual soldiers went to Shreveport on their own to be paroled , others reported to Union garrisons at Fort Smith , Pine Bluff or Little Rock to receive their paroles , but for the most part , the men simply went home .