48th Arkansas Infantry ( Mounted ) The 48th Arkansas Infantry ( Mounted ) ( 1864 – 1865 ) was a Confederate Army Mounted Infantry regiment during the American Civil War . While authorized by the State Military Board as an infantry regiment , the unit was mounted for Price ' s Missouri Expedition and was officially designated as mounted infantry . Due to its mounted status , the unit is sometimes referred to as the 48th Arkansas Cavalry when a numerical designation is used . Organization . The 48th Arkansas Mounted Infantry is the least well documented of the Arkansas Confederate regiments raised in 1864 . In May 1864 , General J . O . Shelby occupied Northeast Arkansas , well behind Union Army lines . In early June 1864 , General Shelby commissioned Colonel Thomas Hamilton McCray , among others to begin raising regiments in Northeast Arkansas . By June 13 , Shelby reported to General Sterling Price that McCray ' s efforts were bearing fruit . It is unclear who was the commander of the 48th Arkansas or which counties the regiment was recruited from . There are no surviving muster rolls for the regiment ; in fact the only documentation that exists for the unit is a list of prisoners captured on October 24 , 1864 at Mound City , Kansas during Price ' s Raid . Since General Sterling Price generally referred to his units by the name of the unit commander , the reports from Price ' s raid rarely contain the numerical designation of the unit . Because the names of the other 40 series regimental commanders are known , some historians have speculated that the 48th may have been the numerical designation of Colonel Charles H . Carlton ' s regiment . Like the other 40 series regiments , Carlton ' s regiment was raised in the summer of 1864 . The only numerical designation known to be associated with the Carlton ' s regiment is the 28th Arkansas Cavalry . Another 40 series regiment , Colonel James H . McGhee ' s 44th Arkansas Infantry ( Mounted ) was also previously known as the 29th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment . Another possibility for the identity of the 48th is a former infantry unit which was mounted for Price ' s Raid , Colonel James W . Rogan ' s 30th Arkansas Infantry Regiment . The decreasing availability of fodder for horses in 1864 led the Confederate Trans - Mississippi Department to issue an order proscribing the raising of additional mounted regiments in Arkansas . However , when General Sterling Price received authorization to conduct a campaign in Missouri that fall , several of the new regiments were mounted in order to accompany him . As a result , the 44th , 45th , 46th , 47th , and 48th were officially mounted infantry regiments instead of cavalry regiments . They were rarely referred to in contemporary reports and orders by numerical designation . Price referred to them as McGehee ' s Cavalry , Crabtree ' s Cavalry , etc . , which eventually resulted in their later being referred to as 44th Cavalry , 46th Cavalry , etc . The 40 - series regiments consisted mostly of conscripts , and absentees from existing units , organized around a small cadre of veterans detailed from infantry regiments , which were expected to be idle during the fall and winter of 1864 . Officer Appointments in the 40 - series regiments date from the June to August 1864 time frame , so it is assumed that the regiments were mustered into service about the same time at various points in northeast Arkansas . Battles . With the exception of Colonel William O . Coleman ' s 46th Arkansas Infantry ( Mounted ) all other Arkansas units were assigned to James F . Fagan ' s Division of Arkansas troops in Sterling Price ' s Army of Missouri for Price ' s 1864 Missouri Expedition , so it is assumed that the 48th is the designation of one of the Arkansas units assigned to Fagan ' s Division . Fagan ' s Division was involved in the following engagements during the raid : After the completion of Price ' s Raid , much of Fagan ' s Division was furloughed to return to the area from which it was recruited in order to forage and recover absentees and to return to the army at a prescribed date . A scouting report made by Major Harris S . Greeno , of the 4th Arkansas Cavalry ( U . S . Army ) , dated November 15 , 1864 , made from Devalls Bluff relayed information on the post raid condition of the Arkansas cavalry regiments . Major Greeno had just learned from deserters and captured Confederate soldiers who had served in Price ' s Army that survivors were in route by way of White River to northeast Arkansas . His description of the morale of the men in this regiment , as well as the others , was probably very accurate : Surrender . It is unclear where the 48th Arkansas Mounted Infantry surrendered at the close of the war . Brigadier General M . Jeff Thompson , Commander of the Military Sub - District of Northeast Arkansas and Southeast Missouri , surrendered his command at Chalk Bluff , Arkansas on May 11 , 1865 , and agreed to have his men assemble at Wittsburg and Jacksonport , Arkansas to lay down their arms and receive their paroles . Thompson ' s command was widely dispersed throughout northeast Arkansas , more for reasons of available forage than anything else . About a third of his men refused to surrender . Shelby ' s Missouri Brigade , along with elements of Green ' s and Jackman ' s Missouri Brigades , left for Mexico . Some Missouri units disbanded rather than surrender their colors . Many men simply went home . The 44th , 45th , 46th and 47th Arkansas Cavalry regiments surrendered with their command structure intact and were paroled at Jacksonport on June 5 , 1865 .