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Missouri 10th Infantry (Confederate)

10/11/62

Organized - Missouri 10th Infantry - Missouri

7/12/62

Leadership Change - Regiment - Colonel Alexander E. Steen

7/12/62

Battle - Prairie Grove - Washington County, Arkansas

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Prairie Grove

Nine months after their victory at Pea Ridge, the Union Army of the Frontier in the area was geographically divided. One division under Brig. Gen. James Blunt remained in the northwestern part of Arkansas, and the second under Brig. Gen. Francis Herron was stationed around the Missouri capital of Springfield. The Confederates, hoping to use Arkansas as a base for operations into the border state of Missouri, looked to defeat the Union armies in the area. Maj. Gen. Thomas C. Hindman gathered a Confederate f…READ MORE

4/07/63

Leadership Change - Regiment - Colonel Alexander C. Pickett

4/07/63

Leadership Change - Division - Major General Sterling Price

Major GeneralSterling Price

4/07/63

Battle - Helena - Helena-West Helena, Arkansas

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Helena

Lt. Gen. Theophilus Holmes, Confederate commander in Arkansas, sought to relieve Union pressure on Vicksburg, Mississippi as the army of Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant besieged that strategic city. Holmes won approval for a plan to assault the Union-held river town of Helena, Arkansas, 170 miles north of Vicksburg, with a combined force of about 7,600 men. About 4,000 Union soldiers were in Helena under the command of Maj. Gen. Benjamin Prentiss. Four artillery batteries defended the town, surrounded on the la…READ MORE

10/09/63

Battle - Bayou Fourche - Little Rock, Arkansas

9/04/64

Battle - Pleasant Hill - Desoto Parish, Louisiana; Sabine Parish, Louisiana

29/04/64

Battle - Jenkins' Ferry - Jenkins' Ferry, Arkansas

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Jenkins' Ferry

At Jenkins Ferry on April 29 and 30, 1864, Union troops fought off an attack by the Confederates and, using an inflatable pontoon bridge, crossed the flooded Saline River and retreated to Little Rock. The land where this Civil War battle took place was settled by Thomas Jenkins, who started the ferry in 1815. It was run by his sons, William and John DeKalb, until the Civil War circa 1861.READ MORE

9/04/65

Mustered Out - Missouri 10th Infantry - Missouri

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