39th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
The 39th Arkansas Infantry Regiment or the 6th Trans-Mississippi Rifle Regiment was an infantry formation of the Confederate States Army in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War. The regiment was successively commanded by Colonels Albert W. Johnson, Alexander T. Hawthorn, John B. Cocke, and Lieutenant-Colonel Cadwallader Polk.
Hawthorn, a veteran of Shiloh, commanded the regiment at Prairie Grove, Helena, and Little Rock.
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. After the war, in company with a party of friends, he traveled extensively in Brazil as the guest of the imperial government, the policy of the government being to encourage immigration from the Southern States. In 1880, he was ordained a minister of the Baptist Church.
Hawthorn, before 1861