Southern Cross of Honor Recipient
David O. Dodd Chapter No. 212
United Daughters of the Confederacy
A. G. Bush - Private Co. A 1st Regiment Arkansas Mounted Rifles
Abner G. Bush
Regiment Name: 1 Mounted Rifles, Arkansas
Side Confederate
Company A
Soldier's Rank_In: Private
Soldier's Rank_Out: Private
Film Number M376 roll 4
1st Regiment, Arkansas Mounted Rifles/organized at Fort Smith, Arkansas/May, 1861, with 768 officers and men. Its companies were recruited in Little Rock and Fort Smith and the counties of Chicot, Arkansas, Johnson, Woodruff, White, Lawrence, Pulaski, Yell, and Independence. The unit fought at Wilson's Creek and Elkhorn Tavern, then was dismounted. It participated in Bragg's Kentucky Campaign under General Churchill and later was placed in General McNair's and D.H. Reynold's Brigade. The regiment was engaged at Murfreesboro and Jackson and in many battles of the Army of Tennessee from Chickamauga to Bentonville.
