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Front Both Union and Confederate cavalry moved north of Jenkins' Ferry on April 29, 1864. Lt. Col. Benjamin Elliott's 1st Missouri Cavalry Battalion had been sent to Princeton on the 28th to seek Gen. Frederick Steele's army as it retreated from Camden. …
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Three African American men represented Lafayette County in the state legislature after the Civil War. Monroe Hawkins, born a slave in North Carolina around 1832, was a minister and laborer. He was a delegate in the 1868 Constitutional Convention and served …
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Arkansas Military Institute The state legislature chartered the Arkansas Military Institute in 1850, and the school was built on Chapel Ridge in Tulip. Cadets had to be over 14 and at least 4 feet 9 inches tall. Classes included Latin, Greek, surveying, …
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Confederate Headquarters Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith led troops from Louisiana on a forced march to attack Gen. Frederick Steele's Union army as it crossed the Saline River to retreat to Little Rock. He arrived here on April 29, 1864, and establi…
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Skirmish at Haguewood Prairie. . . In late September 1863, Confederate Col. J.O. Shelbys cavalry headed north to raid into Missouri. On Sept. 27, 1863, Shelbys scouts found Co. H, 1st Arkansas Infantry (U.S.) camped at Haguewood Prairie near present-day Pa…
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Isaac Murphy, also, Governor Isaac Murphy. . . Front . Isaac Murphy was born Oct. 16, 1799, in Pennsylvania. A teacher and lawyer, he moved to Fayetteville in 1834 and became involved in politics. Murphy took part in the 1849 Gold Rush, but lost his farm …
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Huntsville Massacre. . . Front . On January 10, 1863, nine men, including two Confederate officers and prominent local citizens and Masonic lodge members, were taken from a guardhouse near here, led to Samuel Vaughn's farm one mile northeast of Huntsville…
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The Civil War in Cleburne County, also, Troops Raised in Cleburne County. . The Civil War in Cleburne County. Cleburne County was infested with bands of bushwhackers who would prey on both military and civilian targets. Union troops operating in the are…
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The War in Van Buren County, also, Troops Raised in Van Buren County. . The War in Van Buren County. Most of the violence that took place in Van Buren Co. during the Civil War was caused by irregular troops. Southern units were called bushwhackers; north…
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Skirmish at Tomahawk. . On January 22, 1864, 527 Union soldiers of the First and Second Arkansas Cavalry and Eighth Missouri State Militia Cavalry (U.S.), with one mountain howitzer, fought Col. A.R. Witt's Confederates in St. Joe. The Confederates fell bac…
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