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Re: Confederate Casualty Arkansas 36th Infantry

G. W. Harrison, age 32, Private, Captain Norman’s Company, McRae’s Regiment, Arkansas Infantry,* enlisted June 16, 1862 at Clinton for 3 years, detailed as a Mechanic at Little Rock Arsenal August 29, 1862, recorded present and still detailed at Little Rock at the March/April, 1863 muster, killed at the battle of Helena July 4, 1863

* This company subsequently became Company D, 36th Regiment Arkansas Infantry.

This regiment was designated at various times as McRae’s Arkansas Infantry, Glenn’s Regiment Arkansas Infantry and Davie’s Regiment Arkansas Infantry; and at the same time it was also known as 2nd Regiment Trans-Mississippi Infantry, 28th Regiment Arkansas Infantry, and 36th Regiment Arkansas Infantry

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

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The 36th Arkansas lost 27 soldiers killed, 89 captured and 122 wounded during the Battle of Helena, of which the regiment was only able to evacuate 36. Six of those evacuated wounded later died of their wounds. Those that could not be evacuated had to be left, many of whom later died of their wounds after having been taken prisoner by the Federal defenders.[26]

26 - Price, Jeffery R. "A Courage And Desperation Rarely Equaled: The 36th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Confederate States Army), 26 June 1862--25 May 1865". MA thesis, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 2003, Page 25
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/36th_Arkansas_Infantry_Regiment

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