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Company I, Monticello Guards, were enrolled for active service May 8, 1861 at Monticello, Arkansas and were subsequently mustered into service at Lynchburg, Va. May 18. Their record of events begins:

“At the time of last mustering, this company, known as he Monticello Guards, or as Company I, First Regiment of Arkansas Volunteers, has traveled by rail from Lynchburg [Va.] to Richmond via Southside and Danville Railroad from Richmond to Brooke’s Station via Richmond and Fredericksburg Railroad . . . After a stay of three days in Richmond, the company has suffered much from measles and pneumonia and several deaths have occurred from these diseases. The encampment has lately been removed about a mile from the station and the health of the company is improving.
“The company is supplied with a new uniform, coarse but serviceable. This company is well drilled both in company and battalion, is under excellent discipline. The arms are in fine condition, except that the musket locks require greasing with good oil, which has never been furnished on requisition. The company like the rest of the regiment, is provided with the usual outfit of blankets, etc. Like the rest of the regiment, it owes much of the improvement of its drill to the disinterested services of that capital drillmaster, Mr. Charles Bragonier of Maryland. There are also excellent drill among its officers. The company marched at its own expense from Monticello, Arkansas to Pine Bluff, Arkansas, a distance of fifty miles.”

M317: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Arkansas

Note, a number of the other companies of the regiment reported being outfitted with Springfield muskets. These would be of 58 Caliber, which indicates that Company I was outfitted with both Springfields and Enfields of Cal. 577

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