WCharles William Adams was a Confederate States Army colonel during the American Civil War. In 1864, he was commander of the Confederate Northern Sub-District of Arkansas, within the Union Army lines. He had the title, although not the formal rank, of "acting brigadier general." He was not officially appointed by Confederate President Jefferson Davis and confirmed by the Confederate States Senate to brigadier general grade, even though some sources identify him as a brigadier general.
WFrancis "Frank" Crawford Armstrong was a United States Army cavalry officer and later a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He is also known for being the only Confederate general to fight on both sides during the Civil War.
WElisha Baxter was an American businessman and politician who served as the 10th governor of Arkansas from 1873 to 1874.
WWilliam Nelson Rector Beall was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He is most noted for his supply efforts on behalf of Confederate prisoners of war.
WThomas Boles was an American politician, a judge, and a U.S. Representative from Arkansas.
WSolon Borland was an American physician who served as a United States Senator from Arkansas from 1848 to 1853. In later life, he served as an officer of the Confederate States Army who commanded a cavalry regiment in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War.
WElias C. Boudinot was an American politician, lawyer, newspaper editor, and co-founder of the Arkansan who served as the delegate to the Confederate States House of Representatives representing the Cherokee Nation. Prior to this he served as an officer of the Confederate States Army in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War. He was the first Native American lawyer permitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.
WWilliam Lewis Cabell was an American engineer, lawyer, businessman, and politician who served as the 14th, 16th and 20th mayor of Dallas. Prior to that, he was a senior officer of the Confederate States Army who commanded infantry in the Western and Trans-Mississippi theaters of the American Civil War.
WThomas James Churchill was an American politician who served as the 13th governor of Arkansas from 1881 to 1883. Prior to that, he was a senior officer of the Confederate States Army who commanded infantry in the Western and Trans-Mississippi theaters of the American Civil War.
WMajor-General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne was a senior officer of the Confederate States Army who commanded infantry in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
WArchibald S. Dobbins was a Confederate cavalry commander in the American Civil War.
WBrigadier-General Thomas Pleasant Dockery was a senior officer of the Confederate States Army who served in both the Western and Trans-Mississippi theaters of the American Civil War.
WDavid Owen Dodd, also known as David O. Dodd, was an Arkansas youth executed for spying in the American Civil War.
WJames Philip Eagle was an American politician who served as the 16th Governor of Arkansas and president of the Southern Baptist Convention.
WJames Fleming Fagan was an American politician and senior officer of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. His brigade distinguished itself in the Camden Expedition of 1864, helping to drive the United States Army's Seventh Corps from southwest Arkansas.
WWilliam Meade Fishback was the 17th Governor of Arkansas and U.S. Senator-elect for Arkansas.
WHarris Flanagin was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 7th governor of Arkansas from 1862 to 1864, and in exile from 1864 to 1865. Prior to this he was a Confederate States Army officer who commanded infantry in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
WRead Fletcher was an American politician, lawyer, co-founder and editor of the Pine Bluff Graphic. Besides service on state court benches, he represented Jefferson County in the Arkansas House of Representatives. He previously served with the Confederate army during the Civil War.
WAugustus Hill Garland was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Arkansas, who initially opposed Arkansas' secession from the United States, but later served in both houses of the Congress of the Confederate States and the United States Senate, as well as became the 11th Governor of Arkansas (1874-1877) and the 38th Attorney General of the United States (1885-1889).
WLucien Coatsworth Gause was an American nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from Arkansas.
WDaniel Chevilette Govan was an American miner, planter, and soldier. He served as a Confederate general during the American Civil War, prominent in campaigns and battles in the Western Theater.
WJohn Mortimer Harrell was an American lawyer and writer. He composed the very first telegram sent from Little Rock to Memphis. During the American Civil War, he distinguished himself as a cavalry officer in the operations of the West. Afterwards, he served as commander of the Southern Division, Arkansas United Confederate Veterans.
WBrigadier-General Alexander Travis Hawthorn was a senior officer of the Confederate States Army who commanded infantry in the Western and Trans-Mississippi theaters of the American Civil War.
WThomas Carmichael Hindman Jr. was a lawyer, politician, and a senior officer of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was responsible for planning and supervising the unsuccessful defense of northwestern Arkansas during the fall and winter of 1862.
WSimon Pollard Hughes, Jr. was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who served as the 15th governor of Arkansas from 1885 to 1889. He previously served as an officer of the Confederate States Army in the Western and Trans-Mississippi theaters of the American Civil War.
WRobert Ward Johnson was an American planter and lawyer who served as the senior Confederate States senator for Arkansas, a seat that he was elected to in 1861. He previously served as a delegate from Arkansas to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1862.
WDaniel Webster Jones was the 19th Governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas.
WHenry Champlin Lay was a bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
WVannoy Hartrog Manning served as the U.S. Representative from Mississippi's 2nd Congressional District (1877–1883). Prior to this he was Colonel of the 3rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment, serving from 1862 until wounded and captured by Union forces in 1864.
WThomas Hamilton McCray was an American inventor, a businessman and a Confederate States Army officer during the American Civil War.
WJames McQueen McIntosh was a career American soldier who served as a brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Noted as an aggressive and popular leader of cavalry, he was killed in action at the Battle of Pea Ridge.
WEvander McNair was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
WDandridge McRae was an American lawyer, court official, and Inspector General of Arkansas State Troops, as well as a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He served in several key battles that helped secure Arkansas for the Confederacy, prolonging the war in the Western Theater.
WCharles Burton Mitchel was an American politician who served as a Confederate States Senator from Arkansas from February 18, 1862 until his death in 1864. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Arkansas as a U.S. Senator in 1861.
WHorace Ladd Moore was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.
WNicholas Bartlett Pearce was a brigadier general in the Arkansas State Troops during the American Civil War. He led a brigade of infantry in one of the war's earliest battles in the Trans-Mississippi Theater before serving as a commissary officer in the Confederate States Army for the rest of the war.
WAlbert Pike was an American author, poet, orator, editor, lawyer, jurist, and prominent member of the Freemasons. Pike was a senior officer of the Confederate States Army who commanded the District of Indian Territory in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War. He then served as an associate justice of the confederate Arkansas Supreme Court from 1864 until the surrender of the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederacy in May 1865.
WLucius Eugene Polk was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was a nephew of Leonidas Polk.
WHenry Massie Rector was an American politician and lawyer who served as the sixth governor of Arkansas from 1860 to 1862.
WDaniel Harris Reynolds was a Confederate States Army brigadier general during the American Civil War. He was born at Centerburg, Ohio but moved to Iowa, Tennessee and finally to Arkansas before the Civil War. He was a lawyer in Arkansas before the war. After the war, Reynolds resumed his practice of law and was a member of the Arkansas Senate for one term.
WJohn Selden Roane was an American politician and lawyer who served as the fourth Governor of Arkansas from 1849 to 1852. Prior to this he commanded the Mounted Arkansas Infantry following the death of Colonel Archibald Yell at the Battle of Buena Vista. Roane also served as a senior officer of the Confederate States Army who commanded infantry in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War.
WUriah Milton Rose was an American lawyer. He "disliked his first name intensely and never used his first name when he could avoid it".
WAlbert Rust was an American politician who served as a delegate from Arkansas to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1862. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the U.S. Representative from Arkansas's 2nd congressional district (1859–1861). He also served as a senior officer of the Confederate States Army who commanded infantry in the Eastern, Western, and Trans-Mississippi theaters of the Civil War.
WWilliam King Sebastian was an American politician and lawyer from Helena, Arkansas. He represented Arkansas as a U.S. Senator, Democrat, from 1848 to 1861. Sebastian withdrew from the Senate at the start of the Civil War and was later formally expelled by the Senate. He took no active part in the Confederate government, and was reinstated by a posthumous resolution in 1877.
WRobert Glenn Shaver was an American lawyer, militia leader, and colonel in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War serving in several key battles in the Western Theater. After the war, he became an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan in Arkansas. Later, he served as commander of the State Guard and the Reserve Militia of Arkansas, as well the commander of the Arkansas Division of the United Confederate Veterans.
WWilliam Ferguson Slemons was a U.S. Representative from Arkansas.
WJames Camp Tappan was an American lawyer from Helena who served as the 31st speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1897 to 1899. A member of the Democratic Party, Tappan previously served as an Arkansas state representative from Phillips County. He also served as a senior officer of the Confederate States Army in the Western and Trans-Mississippi theaters of the American Civil War.
WDavis Kasey Tutt was an American Old West gambler and former soldier, best remembered for being killed during the Wild Bill Hickok – Davis Tutt shootout of 1865, which launched Wild Bill Hickok to fame as a gunfighter.
WJames David Walker was an attorney and Democratic Party politician from Arkansas who represented the state in the U.S. Senate from 1879 to 1885. Two of his uncles likewise served in congress, as Finis McLean served Kentucky in the House of Representatives and John McLean represented Illinois in both the House and Senate.
WEdward Allen Warren was a U.S. Representative from Arkansas.
WWilliam Edward Woodruff was an American politician and publisher who served as the first state treasurer of Arkansas from 1836 to 1838. He also served as the 10th postmaster of Little Rock from 1845 to 1846. Woodruff was the first publisher of a major Arkansas newspaper.