3rd Regiment, Arkansas State Troops

Third Regiment, Arkansas State Troops
National Color of the "Pike Guards" at the Kansas Historical Society in Topeka, Kansas
Active	July–September 1861
Disbanded	September 19, 1861
Country	Confederate States
Allegiance	Arkansas
Branch	Provisional Army of Arkansas
Type	Infantry
Size	Regiment
Battles	American Civil War Battle of Wilson's Creek

The Third Regiment, Arkansas State Troops, was an infantry formation of the Provisional Army of Arkansas in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War. The regiment was designated as the Second Regiment by the Arkansas Military Board, but was renamed the Third Regiment by Brigadier-General Nicholas B. Pearce, commander, First Division, Provisional Army of Arkansas.^[1] It is generally referred to as the "Third Regiment, Arkansas State Troops", or "Gratiot's Regiment" in contemporary accounts.^[2] The regiment is distinguished from the 3rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment which served in the Eastern Theater of War in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. It is also distinguished from a later state organization known as Adams' Regiment, Arkansas State Troops, which was organized in 1862 and participated in the Battle of Prairie Grove before being disbanded.