1st Arkansas Colored Light Artillery Battery
MILITARY UNIT
1st Battery, Arkansas Light Artillery (African Descent); 1st Arkansas Light Artillery Battery (Colored)
The 1st Arkansas Colored Light Artillery Battery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The regiment was composed of African American enlisted men commanded by white officers and was authorized by the Bureau of Colored Troops which was created by the United States War Department on May 22, 1863.