The Orphan Company

Company H fought as part of the Texas Brigade. The Encyclopedia of Arkansas says the 3rd Arkansas joined three Texas regiments in that brigade on November 26, 1862, and stayed with it for the rest of the war. At Devil's Den at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, the regiment lost 26 killed and 116 wounded. In the Wilderness, in May 1864, casualties reached nearly 65 percent; Col. Van Manning was severely wounded and captured, and fewer than 120 men were present for duty afterward. The regiment's battle flag is kept in the Old State House Museum in Little Rock.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Japanese American Internment Museum — 23 mi
  A museum in the McGehee train depot on the two Arkansas camps, Rohwer and Jerome, where about 16,000 Japanese Americans were held from 1942 to 1945.
• Arkansas Post National Memorial — 25 mi
  The site of Arkansas's first European trading post, opened in 1686 beside the Quapaw town of Osotouy, later a territorial capital and the scene of a January 1863 Union victory.
• Rohwer Relocation Center Memorial Cemetery — 26 mi
  A National Historic Landmark cemetery built by Japanese Americans incarcerated at Rohwer from 1942 to 1945, with monuments they made and audio panels narrated by George Takei.

More markers nearby

• Lincoln County Star City — 10 mi
• Drew County Seat — 15 mi
• Drew County Troops — 15 mi
• Battle of Arkansas Post — 24 mi