Birth: unknown Death: Jul. 12, 1861
Fredericksburg
Fredericksburg City
Virginia, USA

Company B "The Clark County Volunteers" of Clark County, 1st Arkansas Infantry, Walker's Brigade, Aquia District, Dept of Northern Virginia, C.S.A.

Residence was not listed; 21 year old schoolteacher.
Enlisted as a Private May 8, 1861 at Little Rock, Arkansas, he mustered into "B" Co. AR 1st Infantry.
He died of disease in Hospital.

The 1st Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Fagan's-Colquitt's), formed during the early spring of 1861, contained men from Union, Clark, Ouachita, Jefferson, Saline, Pulaski, Jackson, Arkansas, and Drew counties. Ordered to Virginia, the unit entered Confederate service at Lynchburg. At Brooks Station, along Aquia Creek near Fredericksburg, Va., the men established Camp Jackson. During this time the troops suffered heavily from measles and diarrhea. The 1st lost over 50 men at this time.
It fought at First Manassas and Aquia Creek, before being moved to Tennessee.

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Ruben Wilder