47th Arkansas Infantry ( Mounted ) The 47th 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 47th Arkansas Cavalry when a numerical designation is used . The unit is most often referred to as Crandell ' s Arkansas Cavalry Regiment , after its commander Colonel Lee Crandell . Organization . 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 . Colonel McCray ' s efforts led to the recruitment of at least three regiments , the 45th , 46th and 47th Arkansas Infantry Regiments . These 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 . 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 . There are no known muster rolls of the 47th Arkansas Mounted Infantry and no record of enlistments . Apart from a few prisoner of war records , the records of this regiment consist of paroles of soldiers who surrendered at Jacksonport , Arkansas on June 5 , 1865 . 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 . The list of regimental officers follows : Colonel Crandall was originally from South Berlin , New York , but he entered the Confederate army as captain of Company I of the 8th Louisiana Infantry . He took part in the first battle of Bull Run . He was with General Stonewall Jackson through the Valley Campaign in Virginia , and at the Battle of Cross Keys was wounded in the wrist . He was promoted to Major by General Jackson and later the Confederate Secretary of War ordered him to report to Major General Sterling Price at Little Rock , Arkansas . Battles . The 47th Arkansas Mounted Infantry was assigned to Colonel Thomas H . McCray ' s brigade and operated as part of General Shelby ' s division in northeast Arkansas in the summer of 1864 . The regiments organized by Colonel McCray were apparently ready for operations by July 25 , 1864 when Brigadier General Shelby ordered McCray ' s Brigade to move south and attack the railroad near Brownsville , in current day Lonoke County , Arkansas . The purpose of these attacks were to cut off supplies to the Union army under General Steele in Little Rock , which was dependant on supplies flowing up the Arkansas River and down the rail road from Duvall ' s Bluff , Arkansas . In response to Colonel McCray ' s movements , Union Brigadier General Joseph R . West conducted an expedition from Little Rock to the Little Red River , August 7 – 14 , 1864 in antempt to destroy McCray ' s forces . Wests forces encounterd some of McCray ' s forces at Hickory Plains , Arkansas on August 7 , 1864 and captured seven prisoners . Shelby reported that McCray succeeded in tearing up track and buring several tresels . In late August 1864 , Colonel McCray and his brigade accompanied General Shelby in a raid against Union hay cutting operations in west of DeValls Bluff in Prairie County , Arkansas . The purpose of this operation was draw union forces east of Little Rock , in order to provide a diversion for General Sterling Price ' s crossing of the Arkansas River west of Little Rock . McCray ' s brigade functioned as the reserve for Shelby ' s attack on Ashley ' s Station and four other hay cutting stations west of DeValls Bluff , in which Shelby succeeded in capturing Colonel Greenville M . Mitchell , and over 500 troops of the 54th Illinois Infantry Regiment . General Price crossed the Arkansas River near Dardanelle on September 7 , 1864on his way to link up with General Shelby at Batesville in order to preapare for his raid on Missouri . The 47th and Colonel McCray ' s brigade , was assigned to Maj . Gen . James F . Fagan ' s division , of Sterling Price ' s Army of Missouri , for Price ' s Missouri Expedition ( commonly referred to a Price ' s Raid ) . The 47th was assigned to Colonel Thomas H . McCray ' s brigade , of Maj . Gen . James F . Fagan ' s division , of Sterling Price ' s Army of Missouri , for Price ' s Missouri Expedition , September – October , 1864 ( commonly referred to a Price ' s Raid ) . At the Battle of Mine Creek , Colonel Crandall , with five other field officers , was captured by the Union forces and sent to Johnson ’ s Island , Ohio , where he remained a prisoner until the close of the war . After the completion of Price ' s raid , the 47th 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 ) , November 15 , 1864 , made from Devalls Bluff relayed information on the post raid condition of the 45th Arkansas Cavalry . Maj . Greeno had just learned from deserters and captured Confederate soldiers who had served in Price ' s Army that Colonel T . H . McCray was en route by way of White River to Jacksonport with the 45th , 46th , and 47th Arkansas Regiments . He gave the strength of the 45th Arkansas as about 250 men , his description of the morale of the men in this regiment , as well as the others , was probably very accurate : Surrender . Brigadier General M . Jeff Thompson , Commander of the Military Sub - District of Northeast Arkansas and Southeast Missouri , to which the 47th Arkansas was assigned at the close of the war , 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 . Many men simply went home . The 45th Arkansas Cavalry surrendered and was paroled at Jacksonport on June 5 , 1865 . At the time of the surrender , the regiment was assigned to the following command : Military Sub - District of Northeast Arkansas and Southeast Missouri , commanded by Brigadier General M . Jeff . Thompson ( Surrendered at Jacksonport ) , McCray ’ s Brigade , commanded by Colonel Thomas H . McCray ( Surrendered at Jacksonport ) , 47th Arkansas Mounted Infantry , commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Richard M . Davis ( Surrendered at Jacksonport ) .