The official website for the 1st Arkansas Infantry Company D Reenactors/Living Historians
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Recommended Reading from June 2007 edition: Company D, 1st Arkansas Volunteer Infantry(Clan McGregor) The 1st Arkansas
Infantry Regiment, Company D (Clan McGregor) is a living history organization
based in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Our membership is composed of a wide variety
of people who promote the local history of Jefferson County and that of
Arkansas, in general. We principally portray a unit of Confederate infantry
serving in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. For historical
continuity, we have chosen as our namesake a unit of the Confederate Army
of Tennessee known as Company D, 1st Arkansas Volunteer Infantry, and the
Clan McGregor of Pine Bluff. In addition to our Confederate impression,
we also portray, from time to time, a unit of Federal infantry serving
west of the Mississippi River.
Mission Statement The mission statement of Company D, 1st Arkansas Volunteer Infantry (Clan McGregor) is to keep alive the memory of those Arkansans who sacrificed life and property for the cause of Sourthern Independence. To accomplish this goal, we strive to recreate, as nearly as possible, the life and experiences of the Arkansans serving in the Confederate Army.
Creed of the Living Historian We are people
to whom the past is forever speaking. We listen to it because we cannot
help ourselves, for the past speaks to us with many voices. Far out of
that dark nowhere which is the time before we were born, men who were flesh
of our flesh and bone of our bone went through fire and storm to break
a path to the future. We are part of the future they died for; they are
part of the past that brought the future. What they did, the lives they
lived, the sacrifices they made, the stories they told and the songs they
sang and, finally, the deaths they died, make up a part of our own experience.
We cannot cut ourselves off from it. It is as real to us as something that
happened last week. It is a basic part of our heritage as Americans.
(The above
information was taken from the Clan McGregor, Company D, 1st Arkansas Infantry
Re-enactors Member's Guide. 
Download the Company Handbook If Civil War Historical Reenacting sounds like something you might like to do, register your name and other requested information with us. You will be contacted by one of our NCO's or by the Recruiting Officer of a reenacting unit in your area. For information regarding our Unit or just to correspond with a member, please email Captian Mark Kalkbrenner at captk1ark@hotmail.com or First Sgt. Robert Hutcheson at lawdog@seark.net Either one of us will be glad to answer any questions you might have. "So, as you
go into battle, remember your ancesters and remember your descendants"
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