The 19th Arkansas Infantry Regiment or Dockery's Arkansas Infantry Regiment was an infantry formation of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. There were two other regiments which were designated as the 19th Arkansas. Dawson's 19th Arkansas Infantry was organized at Nashville, Arkansas, on November 21, 1861. Hardy's Arkansas Infantry, which is also occasionally referred to as the 19th Arkansas was organized in 1863 from those parts of Dawson's 19th Infantry Regiment, the 24th Arkansas Infantry Regiment and Crawford's Arkansas Infantry Battalion, which escaped capture at the Battle of Arkansas Post. Organization The 19th Arkansas Infantry Regiment was organized on April 2, 1862, at DeValls Bluff, with Col. Hamilton P. Smead in command. The regimental quartermaster was Capt. Thomas P. Dockery, future brigadier-general. The regiment comprised ten companies from Columbia, Hot Spring, Lafayette, Ouachita and Union counties. The unit was composed of volunteer companies from the following counties: Company A – commanded by Captain James G. Johnson, and organized in Lewisville, Lafayette County, Arkansas on February 25, 1862; Company B – commanded by Captain Dave Dixon and organized in Columbia County, Arkansas on February 26, 1862; Company C – commanded by Captain Wiley H. Buffington and organized in Columbia County, Arkansas on February 27, 1862; Company D/E – the "Mountain Minute Men" – commanded by Captain R. S. Clayton and organized as a volunteer company in the 47th Regiment, Arkansas State Militia, Hot Springs County, Arkansas on December 25, 1861. The unit was sworn in to Confederate service on March 1, 1862; Company F – commanded by Captain W. C. Langford, and organized at El Dorado, Arkansas on March 1, 1862; Company G – commanded by Captain John A. Meek, and organized in Union County, Arkansas on March 1, 1862; Company H – commanded by Captain John Cook, and organized at Caney, Arkansas on March 3, 1862; Company I – commanded by Captain B. R. Mathews, and organized in Union County, Arkansas on March 3, 1862; and Company K – commanded by Captain H. K. Perry, and organized in Columbia County, Arkansas on March 8, 1862. The original Regimental officers were: SMEAD, H.P. - Colonel DISMUKES, WILLIAM H. - Lieutenant Colonel WILLIAMS, H.G.P. - Major DOCKERY, THOMAS P. Captain - Commissary . FELTON, ROBERT A. - Surgeon PEARCE, GEORGE W. - Assistant Surgeon DURHAM, F.M. - Surgeon Major MOHR, DAVID - Quartermaster Sargent EDENBO, WILLIAM H. - Musician