On the morning of May 4, 1861, a company of Arkansas State Troops known as the Hempstead Rifles prepared to leave for the Civil War. Standing in front of the Jones Hotel in Washington, Arkansas, the men of Company B were given a flag in a presentation ceremony. That afternoon, accompanied by the ...
David Alexander, age twenty-two, enlisted on June 15, 1861, in Company G, 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles, at Fort Smith, Arkansas. The next day he was elected a second lieutenant. Shortly afterward, Alexander fatally stabbed one of his enlisted men in an altercation and was cashiered from the army. Tintype by Unknown Photographer Image Courtesy Wilson’s ...
Thomas Bolding enlisted in Company G, 24th Arkansas Infantry, on June 19, 1862, at Camden, Union County, Arkansas. He was listed as absent without leave on December 31, 1862. Interestingly, James A. Bolding and George W. Bolding, both from Union County, Arkansas, enlisted in Company G, 24th Arkansas Infantry on June 18 and July 4, ...
Archibald Dobbins was born in Maury County, Tennessee, in 1827; after marrying in 1850, he moved to Phillips County, Arkansas, where he became a successful planter. In 1862, when Helena, Arkansas, was occupied by Union forces, Dobbins sent his wife and children back to Tennessee and joined the staff of fellow Phillips County resident Major General ...
James Fagan was born on March 1, 1828, in Clark County, Kentucky; his family moved to Arkansas in 1838. With the start of the Civil War, Fagan raised 900 men for the 1st Arkansas Infantry. Fagan led his regiment at the Battle of Shiloh, but was transferred to the Trans-Mississippi Department in the fall ...
James Flynt enlisted on May 2, 1862, in Company D, 2nd Arkansas Infantry, at Trenton, Arkansas. Flynt was killed in action at the Battle of Stones River (Murfreesboro), Tennessee, on December 31, 1862. Carte-de-Visite by J. Gorff & Co., Columbus, Miss. Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 31556
Robert Hart was born in Ireland about 1838; a record of when he immigrated to the United States has not been found. On August 1, 1862, Hart was commissioned the lieutenant colonel of McNeill’s Regiment, Arkansas Infantry (30th Arkansas Infantry); on November 12, 1862, he was promoted to colonel and assumed command of the ...
Thomas Carmichael Hindman was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, in January 1828. He moved to Mississippi in 1841 and served with the 2nd Mississippi Infantry during the Mexican-American War. Hindman was admitted to the bar following the war and was elected to the Mississippi legislature; he then moved to Helena, Phillips County, Arkansas and ...
John Josey was elected major of the 15th Arkansas Infantry (Cleburne’s-Polk’s-Josey’s) in April 1862, promoted to lieutenant colonel in November 1862, and to colonel the following April; the majority of the regiment’s service was in the Western Theater, including the battles of Stones River and Chickamauga. In the fall of 1863, Josey was detached ...
John Lockman joined Company A, 6th Arkansas Infantry in June 1861, and was promoted to third lieutenant on July 26, 1861, at Pocahontas, Arkansas, and detailed as ordnance officer. Some sources state that he resigned in April 1862 when he was not reelected. In May 1862, Lockman was ordered to join Major General Thomas Hindman, ...
This tintype photograph depicts an unknown private in the Pulaski Light Artillery Battery. Organized in December 1860 in Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, the Pulaski Light Artillery Battery was originally known as the Totten Light Artillery Battery. It was named after William Totten, a prominent physician in Little Rock, and his son, Captain James Totten, the ...
Born in Kentucky in 1837, Omer Rose Weaver and his parents came to Little Rock the following year. The Weavers were one of the most socially prominent families in the city. His father, Samuel Weaver, built one of the largest homes in Little Rock and served as Arkansas Secretary of State. Omer ...
