I have searched for a list of the arms that were captured at the arsenal in Little Rock in 1861 but so far have not come across an inventory for it. I would guess at 1842s and 1816s but that is only supposition on my part. Would really like to find a government inventory list.
Here you go.
The Little Rock Arsenal was classified in 1860 as an "arsenal of deposit," meaning that it was simply a warehouse for the storage of weapons intended for the use of the state militia in times of crisis. Thus there were no substantial operations for ordnance fabrication or repairs, nor for the manufacture of cartridges at the time the Arsenal fell into State hands. Most of these operations were started from scratch through the efforts of the Arkansas Military Board.
Inside the Little Rock Arsenal after its seizure in February, 1861, the Confederates inventoried some 10,247 weapons, 250,000 musket cartridges, and 520,000 percussion caps, as well as the four bronze cannon of
Totten's battery. Long arms in the Arsenal's inventory consisted of:
M1822 .69 cal (flintlock) 5,625 M1822 .69 cal (percussion-converted) 53 M1842 .69 cal smoothbore (percussion) 357 M1855 .58 cal rifle-muskets 900 M1817 common rifles 125 M1841 rifle ("Mississippi Rifle") 54 M1847 musketoon 2 Hall's carbines 267 Hall's rifles (flintlock) 2,864 Total 10,247
Of this number, approximately 9600 weapons were serviceable, or ready-for-issue. Note there were only 1,364 percussion weapons available. Disposition of the weapons found in the Arsenal is somewhat sketchy, but from various records it can be surmised that the
5th,
6th,
7th, and
8th Arkansas Infantry Regiments, mustered in June, 1861, were issued M1816/M1822 .69 caliber flintlocks. The
9th and
10th Arkansas, four companies of Kelly's
9th Arkansas Battalion, and the
3rd Arkansas Cavalry Regiment were issued flintlock Hall's Rifles. The units comprising the infantry force of Van Dorn's Army of the West were the
1st and
2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles were also armed with M1822 flintlocks from the Little Rock Arsenal. By the time the
11th and
12th Arkansas Infantry Regiments mustered in at Little Rock, the supply of arms had been almost completely exhausted, and only old "junker" weapons were left.
Most of the equipment, arms, and machinery at the Little Rock Arsenal was removed to east of the Mississippi River by order of Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn in April and May 1862, and accountability for it is lost at that point. By all appearances, the equipment was sent down the river to
Napoleon, Arkansas, and from there to Jackson Mississippi, where it was probably destroyed during the Vicksburg campaign in the early summer of 1863.