M87-09 – CHRONICLES OF ARKANSAS COLLECTION

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Summary Information

Repository:  University of Central Arkansas, Torreyson Library, Archives and Special Collections

Creator:  The Arkansas Gazette

Title:  The Arkansas Gazette “Chronicles of Arkansas Series” collection

ID:  M87-09

Dates Bulk:  1959-1968

Dates Inclusive:  1958-1968

Physical Extent:  3 boxes (0.627 Linear feet:  3 Half Hollinger)

Language of the Material:  English

Preferred Citation:  (Bibliographic) The Arkansas Gazette “Chronicles of Arkansas Series” collection, M87-09, University of Central Arkansas Archives and Special Collections, Conway, Arkansas. 

(Footnote/Endnote info) Description of item, File or Item number, Box number, Series number, Subseries number, The Arkansas Gazette “Chronicles of Arkansas Series” collection, M87-09.

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Biographical Note:  Margaret Smith Ross was born on August 24, 1922 to Cecil B. and Myrtle Gibson Smith in North Little Rock, Arkansas.  Ross attended the North Little Rock school district, and she majored in journalism at Arkansas Polytechnic College (Arkansas Tech University) and the University of Arkansas.   Ross left the university to marry Captain Edwin L. Ross in September of 1942.  Edwin Ross died on July 4, 1944, in Normandy.  

Ross lived in Little Rock, with her son Edwin Ross, Jr., where she worked as a freelance writer for the Arkansas Democrat and as an associate editor of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly from 1953-1993.  She was a founding member of the Pulaski County Historical Society from 1953-1957 where she served as the first editor of their journal.  Ross worked as a research assistant at the Arkansas History Commission (Arkansas State Archives) from 1954-1957.  She became the historian of the Arkansas Gazette and curator of the J.N. Heiskell collection of Arkansiana in 1957.  Ross stayed with the Gazette for 27 years.

Ross wrote the “Chronicles of Arkansas” from 1958 to 1968, which was published in the Arkansas Gazette.  The column was a weekly publication, a daily print in 1961, and reverted to a weekly print in 1965.  In 1969 Ross published Arkansas Gazette: The Early Years, 1819-1866: A History.  In 2000, Ross was presented with the lifetime achievement award from the Arkansas Historical Association.  Margaret Smith Ross died on December 3, 2002.

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Scope and Contents Note:  This collection comprises a series of articles for the column, “Chronicles of Arkansas,” written by Margaret Smith Ross for the Arkansas Gazette.  The articles were published in September 1958 through June 1968.  The articles provide insight into the early days of Arkansas pre and post statehood (1836), and they cover a range of topics including localities; events and time periods such as the United States Civil War (1861-1865), Reconstruction (1865-1877), and the Gilded Age (late 1870s- approximately 1900); and key figures in the history of Arkansas.

Dates of the articles are in the format of:  Month, Day, Year within the finding aid.

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Arrangement:  This collection has no series or subseries.  It is arranged chronologically by publication date.

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Administrative Information

Publication Statement:  University of Central Arkansas Archives and Special Collections

UCA Archives
Torreyson Library
201 Donaghey Avenue
Conway, AR 72035
Phone: (501) 450-3418

Access Information:   Please call (501) 450-3418 or email archives@uca.edu prior to your visit to ensure availability of records.

Conditions Governing Use:  This collection is open for researchers.

Physical Access:  This collection has no physical access restrictions.

Processing Information:  This collection was donated to the University of Central Arkansas Archives and Special Collections, December 2, 1987 by Bobby Roberts and Linda Pine from the University of Arkansas—Little Rock (UALR) Archives from their duplicate holdings.  Processing was completed under the direction of archivist Tom W. Dillard.  Though originally sent with proposed series, the collection was processed without being arranged into series.  The finding aid for the collection was edited in 2025 by Shelbea Gentry.

Immediate Source of Acquisition:  Roberts, Bobby (Donor, Person); Pine, Linda (Donor, Person)

Related Archival Materials:  Ted R. Worley collection (M86-08) 

Arkansas Tourism Materials collection (M90-05) 

Richard Allin collection (M03-16) 

Charles Allbright Newspaper collection (M03-17) 

Arkansas State Capitol Photograph collection (P31)

Margaret Smith Ross Papers, University of Arkansas

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Controlled Access Headings: 

American newspapers—Sections, columns, etc.—Women 

Arkansas—Capital and capitol

Arkansas—Description and travel

Arkansas—History—Civil War, 1861-1865

Arkansas—History—1865-

Arkansas—Politics and government 

Arkansas—Sunnyside Plantation

Arkansas Gazette

Arkansas Governor’s Mansion (Little Rock, Ark.)

Arkansas State Capitol (Little Rock, Ark.)

Brooks-Baxter War, Ark., 1874

Gilded Age (U.S. history, 1870s-1900)—Arkansas 

Indians of North America—Arkansas 

Newspaper reading

Newspapers

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)—Arkansas 

Ross, Margaret Smith (Person)

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Collection Inventory 

Box 1

• File 1 – September 1958, Articles 1-13
  • 09-07-58 – Scenery Striking, But Road Dangerous; Fort Smith Whoops For Overland Mail
  • 09-08-58 – On the Overland Run From Fort Smith to Memphis
  • 09-10-58 – British Description of the Ancient ‘Post Of Arcansas’
  • 09-12-58 – Albert Pike Describes the Territorial Bench And Bar
  • 09-14-58 – Guard Duty on the Eve of Fall of Little Rock; And the Retreat, Which Followed Fight
  • 09-15-58 – A Couple of Descriptions of Little Rock in The 1800s
  • 09-17-58 – The ‘Old Settler’ Tells Of His Trip to 1819 Arkansas
  • 09-19-58 – What a Cleric Wrote About the Town Of Napoleon, Arkansas
  • 09-21-58 – Dispute Over Spanish Land Grant; Letter Traces the Villemont Claim
  • 09-22-58 – Dramatic Episode: The Day Little Rock ‘Moved’
  • 09-24-58 – Little Rock in the Mid-1800s as Revealed In Two Letters
  • 09-28-58 – Visitor Describes Little Rock Homes, Meets Poet-Soldier Albert Pike
  • 09-29-58 – The ‘Arkansas Traveler’ Visits City Of Fort Smith

 

• File 2 – October 1958, Articles 14-31
  • 10-01-58 – Historical Note on Two Governors – Pope, Izard
  • 10-03-58 – A Report in 1819 on the Famous Dwight Mission
  • 10-05-58 – From the Frontier, Clerk Describes Growth of the City Of Fort Smith
  • 10-06-58 – A Bishop’s Letters Tell Of Chaotic Chapter of History
  • 10-08-58 – 1850’s Traveler Tells of Helena and River
  • 10-10-58 – A Couple of Early Notes on Historic Batesville
  • 10-12-58 – Chance Discoveries Proved the Legends about Healing Waters at Eureka Springs
  • 10-13-58 – More Noland Notes On the Arkansas Territory
  • 10-15-58 – Tragic Duel Robs State Of Very Worthy Leader: Ambrose Sevier
  • 10-17-58 – Outstanding Residents of Arkansas Territory
  • 10-19-58 – ‘Old Settler’ Tells Of Arkansas Post, Gazette Editor Woodruff in 1819-20
  • 10-20-58 – More Noland Notes On Early Days in Arkansas
  • 10-22-58 – Batesville, Home of the ‘Constitution – Makers’
  • 10-24-58 – A Note On Arkansas ‘Of Giant Intellects’
  • 10-26-58 – Baptism of 1744 among Earliest Data; Some Notes about French Names
  • 10-27-58 – Some Further Notes on Arkansans of Distinction
  • 10-29-58 – Of a Steamboat Pioneer and Other Early Settlers
  • 10-31-58 – First State Constitution Is Framed and Delivered

 

• File 3 – November 1958, Articles 32-48
  • 11-02-58 – Visitor Finds State Growing In 1887, Remarks On Public Buildings, Institutions
  • 11-03-58 – Charles Dudley Warner Has a Watery Visit Here
  • 11-05-58 – Eastern Writer Takes a Look at Hot Springs
  • 11-07-58 – A Visitor to the State Is Agreeably Surprised
  • 11-09-58 – St. Louis Railroad Made Hot Springs Adjunct of Missouri City In 1870s
  • 11-10-58 – Geologist from Britain Studies Magnate Cove
  • 11-12-58 – A Look At Our State in ‘Reconstruction’ Days
  • 11-14-58 – 4th Arkansas’ History of Battle of Pea Ridge
  • 11-16-58 – Note on Territorial Legislature of 1825 and the Clearing of the Red River Raft
  • 11-17-58 – Divorce No Stranger – Even In Territorial Days
  • 11-19-58 – Tomorrow Is Birthday of Gazette – Its 139th
  • 11-21-58 – More Notes On the Oldest West of the Mississippi
  • 11-23-58 – Nuttall Found Little to Recommend In Site for Early Town Of Cadron
  • 11-24-58 – The Third Louisiana Winters In Arkansas
  • 11-26-58 – A Tennessee Regiment Comes To Washington
  • 11-28-58 – ‘Philom’ Makes a Report on the Town Of Cane Hill
  • 11-30-58 – Albert Pike Describes the Arkansas: ‘Singularly Winding’ Changing River

 

• File 4 – December 1958, Articles 49-66
  • 12-01-58 – The 33rd Iowa and the Battle of Prairie De Anne
  • 12-03-58 – A View Of Our State’s 1836 General Assembly, (Damaged)
  • 12-05-58 – Of Frontier Fort Coffee and a Choctaw Mission
  • 12-07-58 – On Prairie Grove Battlefield 96 Years Ago, Survivor Walked Ghostly Orchard at Night
  • 12-08-58 – Gen. Frederick Steele and the ‘Camden Expedition’
  • 12-10-58 – An Ancient Problem: The Territorial Roads
  • 12-12-58 – A Historical Record of La Salle’s Last Voyage
  • 12-14-58 – Company of Young Boys Organized, Later Known as Pike’s Artillery
  • 12-15-58 – 1866 – A Dread Cholera Epidemic at Fort Smith
  • 12-17-58 – This Is Arkansas’ Ads Used Even In The 1800s
  • 12-19-58 – Jenkins Ferry: A Major Battle of Camden Move
  • 12-21-58 – Visiting Press Finds Legislature of 1875 Comfortably Housed, With Men of Note
  • 12-22-58 – Printer, Boniface Gives Picture of State In 1830s
  • 12-24-58 – Christmas in Arkansas: First After War Began
  • 12-26-58 – William King Sebastian Opposed the Move Of ‘61
  • 12-28-58 – Town Built Around Judson University, Which in 1876 Listed Its Advantages
  • 12-29-58 – A Highly Critical Study of Our State in The 1870s
  • 12-31-58 – A British Traveler Visits Settlements at Maumelle

 

• File 5 – January 1959, Articles 67-83
  • 01-02-59 – Production of Salt Was an Early State Industry
  • 01-04-59 – Eyewitness Recalls Dodd Execution: Composed Youth ‘Truly Died Game’
  • 01-05-59 – ‘Stories of the Ozarks’ Had Interesting Episode
  • 01-07-59 – Horticulture Professor Tells Of Life in State
  • 01-09-59 – Pioneer Citizen Tells Of the Little Rock Of 1820
  • 01-11-59 – From First, the Little Rock Site Favored; Old Settler Speaks Of His Fellow Pioneers
  • 01-12-59 – A Journalistic History from Early Arkansas
  • 01-14-59 – A Few Pioneer Notes on Banking Operations
  • 01-16-59 – Donaghey’s Travails in Building the New Capitol
  • 01-18-59 – Problem of the Conway Administration: Operation of the State Penitentiary
  • 01-19-59 – Workmen Find Graves at Site of State House
  • 01-21-59 – Letters Tell Of Early History of Little Rock
  • 01-23-59 – Saline County Noted In Pamphlet Printed In ‘84
  • 01-25-59 – Trains Had Reason Enough To Be Slow, Recollections of Traveling Priest Show
  • 01-26-59 – British Traveler Writes Of Valley Country In ‘08
  • 01-28-59 – Harrison Times Article Tells Of Cadron Creek
  • 01-30-59 – Fort Wayne Journalist Writes Of Early Arkansas

 

• File 6 – February 1959, Articles 84-99
  • 02-01-59 – Hot Springs Visitor Finds Friendly Aid, But Some Are Victims at Health Resort
  • 02-02-59 – ’77 Broadside Describes Conway and Faulkner
  • 02-04-59 – Bishop’s Travel Account Describes Batesville
  • 02-06-59 – Albert Pike’s Letters Tell Of School in Pope County
  • 02-08-59 – Geologist Hired By Eastern Investors, Came To Study Arkansas and Stayed
  • 02-09-59 – Hunter, Trapper Found Interesting Relics Here
  • 02-11-59 – British Sportsman Hunts Pulaski, Jefferson Game
  • 02-13-59 – Journey From Napoleon Up To Arkansas Post
  • 02-15-59 – Mulattoes, Free Negroes Ordered To Leave Arkansas on Eve of the War
  • 02-16-59 – Little Rock Experiences 1860’s Building Boom
  • 02-18-59 – On Commencement Day at Old Cane Hill College
  • 02-20-59 – The Steamboat ‘Eagle’ – First To Reach Little Rock
  • 02-22-59 – Fire on Steamer Martha Washington Touched Off Lawsuits and Mystery
  • 02-23-59 – Magazine Tells Of Trip into Northern Arkansas
  • 02-25-59 – On Land Booms and the Speculations of The 1800s
  • 02-27-59 – Report On New Madrid Claims at ‘Wheelerville’

 

• File 7 – March 1959, Articles 100-117
  • 03-01-59 – First Report on the State University Discusses the Effort to Locate a Site
  • 03-02-59 – More News of Little Rock in Chaotic Time in 1820
  • 03-04-59 – His Claimants Lose and Wheeler Ends a Chronicle
  • 03-06-59 – 1541– Hernando De Soto Crosses the Mississippi
  • 03-08-59 – Report by First Arkansas Governor Sustained Jefferson Against Critics
  • 03-09-59 – The Origin of the Name of Old L’Anguille River
  • 03-11-59 – The Bank of Maryland Sets Up an Agency Here
  • 03-13-59 – Masonic Historical Item from the Helena Of 1850
  • 03-15-59 – Getting Mission Supplies up Arkansas Difficult Task for Teachers In 1843
  • 03-16-59 – Thomas Nuttall Journeys Up the Arkansas River
  • 03-18-59 – The Strategic Position Of Fort Smith In 1820s
  • 03-20-59 – 19th Century Visitors Say State’s Institutions Good
  • 03-22-59 – Sensational Story of the Lost Child Rivals Any Account in Fiction
  • 03-23-59 – Report On Union County Activities in The 1830s
  • 03-25-59 – A Description of Life in Marion County In 1860s
  • 03-27-59 – A Note on the 1830s and Arkansas’ Silk Industry
  • 03-29-59 – Private Banks at Little Rock Began As Adjuncts to Mercantile Business
  • 03-30-59 – The Quapaw Line and Little Rock of The 1800s

 

• File 8 – April 1959, Articles 118-134
  • 04-01-59 – Pike Paints a Picture of an Arkansas Lawyer
  • 04-03-59 – Dwight Mission: A View During the Period Of 1862
  • 04-05-59 – Crittenden Home, Often In the News, Was Show Place of Territorial Days
  • 04-06-59 – A Visit To Hot Springs and Its Popular Midget
  • 04-08-59 – Tornado Advanced the Democratic Cause In ‘40
  • 04-10-59 – 1908 Observation on the Confederacy’s Currency
  • 04-12-59 – Aide to Miss Sophia Sawyer Recalls Fayetteville Female Seminary Work
  • 04-13-59 – Peace Comes To the State after Brooks – Baxter War
  • 04-15-59 – A Note on Taylor Baxter, The Governor’s Brother
  • 04-17-59 – A Report On Fort Smith’s Federal Prison In The ‘80s
  • 04-19-59 – Early Pages of Arkansas Intelligencer Provide Newsy Picture of Van Buren
  • 04-20-59 – The Agricultural Wheel: A Strong Political Power
  • 04-22-59 – 1804 and the Exploration of the Louisiana Territory
  • 04-24-59 – Opie Read Describes His First State Publication
  • 04-26-59 – Brochure Recalls Plan to Settle Colony of British in New Village in Prairie County
  • 04-27-59 – Organizing the Territory:  Task Falls to Crittenden
  • 04-29-59 – On the Origins of State’s Favorite Game – Football 

 

• File 9 – May 1959, Articles 135-152
  • 05-01-59 – The Arkansas Traveler’ Plays A Practical Joke
  • 05-03-59 – Repairs Lagged Behind Wear And Tear in Early Upkeep of the State Capitol
  • 05-04-59 – Arkansas Becomes State, Gets Its Supreme Court
  • 05-06-59 – State Loses Two of Its Important Collections
  • 05-08-59 – Jacob Frolich: Newsman and Secretary Of State
  • 05-10-59 – Quapaw Guard Won an Early Fame with Special Duty and Its Drills
  • 05-11-59 – Politics of 1827 – And the Sevier–Newton Duel
  • 05-13-59 – Accommodations of 1834 Recalled By Geologist
  • 05-15-59 – Bureau of Mines Praises State’s Building Stone
  • 05-17-59 – Clayton’s Plan to Find Military Supplies Thwarted by Band In the ‘Hesper Affair’
  • 05-18-59 – A Number of Territorial Buildings Still Stand
  • 05-20-59 – A Description of Nebo in A Pamphlet Of 1887
  • 05-22-59 – Clendenin Letters Make Reference To The State
  • 05-24-59 – Travel Difficult Up the Arkansas in 1850, As Officer Made His Way to Fort Smith
  • 05-25-59 – Massachusetts Is Well Represented In Our City
  • 05-27-59 – Episcopalians Withdraw From the General Church
  • 05-29-59 – Handbook Gives Details of Judge Parker’s Court

 

• File 10 – June 1959, Articles 153-169
  • 06-01-59 – Ouachita County’s First Courthouse Is Destroyed
  • 06-03-59 – Village Of Little Rock Had Its Culture In 1822
  • 06-05-59 – Yellow Fever Was Major Menace to State Pioneers
  • 06-07-59 – Gerstaecker, the German Writer, Arrives Penniless At Little Rock
  • 06-08-59 – U.M. Rose Tells How He Chose Arkansas as Home
  • 06-10-59 – Supreme Court Called To Define Status of Cadron
  • 06-12-59 – W. B. Worthen Prepares History of Early Banking
  • 06-14-59 – Union Sympathizers at Fayetteville Sought To Soothe a Troubled Course
  • 06-15-59 – A Woman’s Exchange Is Formed In Spring Of ‘87
  • 06-17-59 – Pope County’s Famous Dwight Mission Opens
  • 06-19-59 – Little Rock – And Its Fight Over Varied Title Claims
  • 06-21-59 – Early Geologist Tells Of Mammoth Spring, Sees Hope For Development of the Area
  • 06-22-59 – Mifflin Gibbs Serves As Little Rock Police Judge
  • 06-24-59 – Arkansas Post – Little Rock – The Hazards of Travel
  • 06-26-59 – Christopher C. Danley, Early Editor of Gazette
  • 06-28-59 – Sketches In Book about Many Members of the Arkansas Bar in Early Years
  • 06-29-59 – Account Of a 1797 Trip Down the Mississippi

 

• File 11 – July 1959, Articles 170-187
  • 07-01-59 – Sisters of Mercy Convent Established Here In 1851
  • 07-03-59 – Brooks – Baxter And ’74 – Rivers Were On Rampage
  • 07-05-59 – Visitor to Mission in Cherokee Nation Is Impressed By the Staff and Indians
  • 07-06-59 – Arkansas’s Rome: Few Roads Ever Led to It
  • 07-08-59 – An 1843 Account of A Trip To the Magnet Cove Area
  • 07-10-59 – Little Rock’s First Brick Business Is Established
  • 07-12-59 – William F. Pope Recalls the Scene of Little Rock as It Looked In 1832
  • 07-13-59 – Red Hot Trip’ Includes Visit to Big Rock Hotel
  • 07-15-59 – Little Rock Paper Gives History of Arkansas City
  • 07-17-59 – Augustus Hill Garland:  A Truly Able Arkansan
  • 07-19-59 – Visitor finds Peace but Much Poverty, Discusses Debt of 1879 With Governor
  • 07-20-59 – A Continuing Story Of Arkansas in Colorado
  • 07-22-59 – A Further Listing of Arkansans in Colorado
  • 07-24-59 – ‘Exiles’ In Colorado Show Evidence Of Age
  • 07-26-59 – Alfred W. Arrington, Colorful Figure, Was Minister, Lawyer, Judge, and Writer
  • 07-27-59 – When Arkansas Tried an Earlier ‘Quota’ System
  • 07-29-59 – Pike Reports On Early Election Day Oratory
  • 07-31-59 – A Plea for Justice in Territorial Arkansas

 

• File 12 – August 1959, Articles 188-205
  • 08-02-59 – George Maledon, Judge Isaac Parker’s Executioner, Was ‘The Prince of Hangmen’
  • 08-03-59 – Adlai Stevenson (1st): The ‘Idol of the South’
  • 08-05-59 – Border Days Provided Slim Fare for Clergy
  • 08-07-59 – Schooling Hard Going in Earlier Days, Too
  • 08-09-59 – Old Fort Smith Handbook Told Story of the City and Its Citizens, Founders
  • 08-10-59 – McCarthy Rifles Swept the Field in The ‘90s
  • 08-12-59 – Sport – And Tragedy in Old State House
  • 08-14-59 – Englishman’s View of Arkansas in the 1830s
  • 08-16-59 – Rev. Cephas Washburn Was an Expert on the Cherokee Indians of Arkansas
  • 08-17-59 – Grant County Created By the Carpetbaggers
  • 08-19-59 – Map of Arkansas Was Changed By Railroads
  • 08-21-59 – An Insider’s View Of the 1874 Constitution
  • 08-23-59 – Cassius M. Clay Tells Of the Capture at Encarnacion during Mexican War
  • 08-24-59 – Nicholas Trammell: An Enterprising Operator
  • 08-26-59 – Louis Bringier: With Lafitte Up the River
  • 08-28-59 – Matthew Lyon Victim of Alien, Sedition Acts
  • 08-30-59 – Alex A. Lesueur Visits Little Rock and Describes City’s Remarkable Growth
  • 08-31-59 – How Pine Bluff Came Back From Disasters

 

• File 13 – September 1959, Articles 206-222
  • 09-02-59 – Yankee Paymasters in Role of Duncan Hines
  • 09-04-59 – Powell Clayton Looks At Own Administration
  • 09-06-59 – The Bowie Knife Controversy Was One of The Longest in Arkansas’s History
  • 09-07-59 – German Travel Writer Had Rude Introduction
  • 09-09-59 – A Louisianan Reports On Arkansas Of 1840s
  • 09-11-59 – Henry C. Byrd Was a Pioneer Portraitist
  • 09-13-59 – Arkansas’s Famed Mineral Resources Brought On Mining Boom in Late 1800s
  • 09-14-59 – A Report On Benton’s Prosperous Beginning
  • 09-16-59 – Batesville Center For Early Private Schools
  • 09-18-59 – Eureka Springs Was a Resort Center In ‘80s
  • 09-20-59 – Governor Drew’s Resignation Led To Wide Speculation in State Legislature
  • 09-21-59 – The Good Old Days of Our Self-Sufficiency
  • 09-23-59 – The Great Textbook Racket Of The 1880s
  • 09-25-59 – No Room for ‘Jeeves’ In Arkansas of 1830s
  • 09-27-59 – Shooting Of John Garrett in 1828 Led To Jury Investigation but Was Never Solved
  • 09-28-59 – Germans ‘Invade’ a Fayetteville School
  • 09-30-59 – Missionary to Texas Kept Arkansas Diary

 

• File 14 – October 1959, Articles 223-239
  • 10-02-59 – ‘End of World’ Came Frequently In 1800s
  • 10-04-59 – State Blind School Had Early Economic Troubles but Became a Model Institution
  • 10-05-59 – Britisher Appalled By Gazette Readers
  • 10-07-59 – Early Arkansans – A Society of Hunters
  • 10-09-59 – Fort Smith Led Way for District Fairs
  • 10-11-59 – Harper’s Monthly Paints an Interesting Picture Of ‘The Hot Springs’ in The 1870s 
  • 10-??-59 – An Earlier Visitation from Outside Press
  • 10-14-59 – Inflation Followed Upon Brooks-Baxter
  • 10-16-59 – The Good and Bad in 1874 Arkansas
  • 10-18-59 – Methodist Bishop Writes of His Journey to State’s Conference in Summer Of ‘56
  • 10-19-59 – Yellow Fever Still a Scourge In 1870s
  • 10-21-59 – Lumbering Industry Had Slow Beginning
  • 10-23-59 – Boilers Were Hazard to Steamboat Travel
  • 10-25-59 – Editor Writes Of ‘Oldest Man in Arkansas’, an Interesting Claim – But a Disputed One
  • 10-26-59 – New Madrid Quake Felt Far And Near
  • 10-28-59 – 1860 Visitor Foresaw Hot Springs’ Future
  • 10-30-59 – A Souvenir of Davy Crocket’s Passage

 

• File 15 – November 1959, Articles 240-257
  • 11-01-59 – Railroad Company ‘Hand-book’ Provides Description of Conway in Late 1880s
  • 11-02-59 – The Racing Season in Old Fort Smith
  • 11-04-59 – An Earlier Effort to ‘Advertise’ Arkansas
  • 11-06-59 – Partisan Politics in Ante-Bellum Arkansas
  • 11-08-59 – Kansas Veteran Visits Prairie Grove in 1888 – Writes Interesting Description 
  • 11-09-59 – The Day a Meteorite Fell At Cabin Creek
  • 11-11-59 – Arkansas Hard Ground for Early Methodists
  • 11-13-59 – Opie Read:  A Vendor of ‘Arkansaw’ Humor
  • 11-15-59 – Confederate Veteran Describes Guerrilla Warfare in Northwest Arkansas In 1860s
  • 11-16-59 – An 1859 ‘Solution’ Of Slavery Problem
  • 11-18-59 – State Did Its Part in the Mexican War
  • 11-20-59 – Founding Day for an Arkansas Institution
  • 11-22-59 – Thanksgiving Is Said To Have Begun In 1855 – But Arkansas Had It In 1847
  • 11-23-59 – A Missouri Editor’s Report on Arkansas
  • 11-25-59 – William Cummings: A Whig with Conviction
  • 11-27-59 – The Fourth’ Shadowed By Discontent In 1860
  • 11-29-59 – Political Strife Surrounded the Proposal for Construction of the Old Statehouse
  • 11-30-59 – A ‘Silent’ Traveler in Arkansas In 1860

 

• File 16 – December 1959, Articles 258-274
  • 12-02-59 – Woodruff’s Account Of the ‘Occupation’
  • 12-04-59 – Aaron W. Lyon – And the Dwight Mission
  • 12-06-59 – Hendrix College Had Hard Struggle but One of Its Benefactors Saw It Through
  • 12-07-59 – Notes On The Origin Of Symbol, ‘G.T.T.’
  • 12-09-59 – The Quapaws and the White Man’s Justice
  • 12-11-59 – A Blow For Culture in Early Little Rock
  • 12-13-59 – Methodist Minister Tells Interesting Details of Trip to Fort Coffee In 1840s
  • 12-14-59 – Graveyard Was Legal Battleground In ‘75
  • 12-16-59 – A Wheelchair Drummer Travels Up the River
  • 12-18-59 – Old Post Office Caused a Rousing Controversy
  • 12-21-59 – An 1841 Account of Hot Springs’ Magic
  • 12-23-59 – Arkansas Museum Was Gold Rush ‘Casualty’
  • 12-25-59 – Exiled Yankee Found a Haven in Arkansas
  • 12-27-59 – Van Buren Stops in Arkansas in 1842 and Columbia Resident Describes Him
  • 12-28-59 – A Century-old Gazette Stand For Our Schools
  • 12-30-59 – City Man Chose Free Air of Izard County

 

• File 17 – January 1960, Articles 275-292
  • 01-01-60 – Indians Knew Jesuit as the ‘Black Chief’
  • 01-03-60 – An 1880 Description of Eureka Springs – Arkansas’s Famed ‘City Of The Hills’ 
  • 01-04-60 – An 1804 Odyssey Up the ‘Washita’ River
  • 01-06-60 – Co-education the End for ‘Stern’ St. Johns?
  • 01-08-60 – Featherstonhaugh: A Less-Jaundiced View
  • 01-10-60 – James S. Conway Gives Background in Campaign Circular of July 4, 1836 
  • 01-11-60 – An Oxonian in the Ouachitas Of 1830s
  • 01-13-60 – An 1843 Trip to the Saline River Country
  • 01-15-60 – Saline County’s ‘Gold Rush’ Didn’t Pan Out
  • 01-17-60 – Harper’s Artists Sketch Scenes of Arkansas and Other Southern States
  • 01-18-60 – A New Yorker’s View of Arkansas in 1870s
  • 01-20-60 – The Sporting Life of Early Day Arkansas
  • 01-22-60 – Old Statehouse Cause of Lingering Dispute
  • 01-24-60 – Kansan Writes a Description of State’s Famed Battlefield at Pea Ridge In 1888 
  • 01-25-60 – The Gazette and Its Move to Little Rock
  • 01-27-60 – A Memoir of the Road to Old Dwight Mission
  • 01-29-60 – The Cherokee’s lived Almost As ‘Americans’
  • 01-31-60 – Albert Pike’s Book Received With Mixed Feelings in New England

 

• File 18 – February 1960, Articles 293-309
  • 02-01-60 – Cleburn: From County Cork to Helena, Ark.
  • 02-03-60 – ‘Profile in Courage’ From Secession Days
  • 02-05-60 – Early Lead and Zinc Mining Near Harrison
  • 02-07-60 – A Kentucky Regiment Comes Through Arkansas in Route to Mexican War
  • 02-08-60 – High (And Premature) Hopes on White River
  • 02-10-60 – A ‘Lend-Lease’ Request From Spanish Arkansas
  • 02-12-60 – The ‘Life of Ease’ In East Arkansas Of 1857
  • 02-14-60 – Officer Explores Mississippi Valley in 1790s — and Writes of Arkansas
  • 02-15-60 – A Housewife’s Report of Arkansas of 1840s
  • 02-17-60 – W. Irving’s Visit to the Indian Territory
  • 02-19-60 – An Episcopal Bishop of the 1859 Frontier
  • 02-21-60 – Pamphlet Tells Of Sugar Loaf Springs – Now Heber – In Post-Bellum Era
  • 02-22-60 – A Connecticut Yankee in Old Izard County
  • 02-24-60 – The End of the Earth in Old Sevier County
  • 02-26-60 – A Gentler View of Arkansas Of 1840s
  • 02-28-60 – Blind Author Visits Arkansas in 1870s and Writes of Her Adventures in State
  • 02-29-60 – When Federal Troops Moved Into Arkansas

 

• File 19 – March 1960, Articles 310-326
  • 03-02-60 – Voyageur Culture In the Arkansas Valley
  • 03-04-60 – A Gascon Transplant In Jefferson County
  • 03-06-60 – Historic Dardanelle Is Described In an 1887 Brochure on the Arkansas Valley
  • 03-07-60 – Mortar–And–Pestle in Arkansas of The 1880s
  • 03-09-60 – A Paean to Augusta and the White River
  • 03-11-60 – A Hoosier’s Report on Arkansas of Mid-1870s
  • 03-13-60 – Gold Fever Hits In ’48 and ‘Arkansas Route’ Becomes Best Way to the West
  • 03-14-60 – A Frigid, Down-River Trip to Old Napoleon
  • 03-16-60 – The ‘Akanza’ Indians Adopt a New Chieftain
  • 03-18-60 – Arkansas on 100F’s Itinerary In 1896
  • 03-20-60 – Era of Luxury Hotels at Hot Springs Featured the Large, Plush Arlington
  • 03-21-60 – The Abortive Boone County ‘Gold Rush’
  • 03-23-60 – Notes On the Arkansas Delegation of 1887-’89
  • 03-25-60 – Little Rock’s Public Parks Had Late Start
  • 03-27-60 – Reports List Progress of University’s Early Efforts to Form Medical School 
  • 03-28-60 – General Steele – And Camden’s Occupation
  • 03-30-60 – ‘Sea Monsters’ Along the Lower Mississippi

 

• File 20 – April 1960, Articles 327-343
  • 04-01-60 – Miscegenation as an Early Southern Goal
  • 04-03-60 – Zachary Taylor Describes His Father’s and Uncle’s Journey Up the Arkansas
  • 04-04-60 – Arkansas Mosquitoes Find Tasty Prussian
  • 04-06-60 – Little Rock – And The ’73 Cholera Epidemic
  • 04-08-60 – A Latter-day Job Runs the Mosquito Gantlet
  • 04-10-60 – Mississippi Doctor Gives a Description of Hot Springs’ Famous Waters In 1804  
  • 04-11-60 – A Missionary’s Trip into Choctaw Nation
  • 04-13-60 – Arkansas Was Staging Area for Mexican War
  • 04-15-60 – An English Geologist at the ‘Hot Springs’
  • 04-17-60 – Pamphlet in 1837 Tells Story of How Famous Cherokee Alphabet Was Born
  • 04-18-60 – Overland Travel Slow In Arkansas Of 1840s
  • 04-20-60 – 1840 Arkansas: Nobody Here But Us ‘Planters’
  • 04-22-60 – Hypnotism A Passing Fancy in Marion County
  • 04-24-60 – 1898 Description of the Buildings Used By the Old Federal Court at Fort Smith
  • 04-25-60 – An 1876 Prospectus for Prairie County
  • 04-27-60 – Bed? And Board for 1820 Mapping Party
  • 04-29-60 – A Visit To Strawberry and Old Davidsonville

 

• File 21 – May 1960, Articles 344-361
  • 05-01-60 – Diamonds Are Discovered In 1906 and a Special Geological Report Is Made
  • 05-02-60 – Cherokees Saw Need for Dwight Mission
  • 05-04-60 – Sun-Worshipping On the Lower Arkansas
  • 05-06-60 – A Survey of Western Border as War’s End
  • 05-08-60 – The Zinc Boom Comes To Arkansas in the 1890s and Mining Activity Begins
  • 05-09-60 – An Insalubrious Sojourn at the Arkansas Post
  • 05-11-60 – The Hazards of Travel in Arkansas Of 1820s
  • 05-13-60 – French Took Arkansas Post Census In 1749
  • 05-15-60 – A Glimpse Of Old Napoleon—From the Advertisements of the Weekly Planter
  • 05-16-60 – The Hard (And Fevered) Road to Dwight Mission
  • 05-18-60 – An Illiniosan’s View of Arkansas In 1918
  • 05-20-60 – Little Rock’s Harsh Winter of 1863-’64
  • 05-22-60 – Little Rock’s Capital Guards Had Fine Record of Battle Service in Civil War
  • 05-23-60 – A Firsthand Report from Elkhorn Tavern
  • 05-25-60 – The Day Grant Ordered Dessert for Underling
  • 05-27-60 – The ’49ers’ In Fort Smith and Van Buren
  • 05-29-60 – New York Correspondent Tells Of a ‘Slow Train’ Trip through Arkansas
  • 05-30-60 – An earlier Argument over Census Figures

 

• File 22 – June 1960, Articles 362-378
  • 06-01-60 – The Brownfield Family: A Genealogical Rundown
  • 06-03-60 – Quoting Coleridge in Little Rock Of 1840s
  • 06-05-60 – Augustus H. Garland Comments On His Memories of Judge Samuel Miller  
  • 06-06-60 – Arkansas: ‘Natural Nursery of Bacchus’
  • 06-08-60 – A Frenchman’s Dream of ‘Miniature Paris’
  • 06-10-60 – More Details From a Bubbling Prospectus
  • 06-12-60 – The Original Arkansas Traveler ‘Joins’ the Northwestern Editorial Excursion
  • 06-13-60 – A Perceptive Printer’s View of ‘The Territory’
  • 06-15-60 – The End of Outdoor Kissing In Capital
  • 06-17-60 – A Missouri Traveler along the ‘Washitta’
  • 06-19-60 – Conway County Develops Educational Institutions Following the Civil War
  • 06-20-60 – Hard Times Catch an Early Ozark Railroad
  • 06-22-60 – A Summer Voyage Up the Mississippi – 1855
  • 06-24-60 – Heat Bad, Pay Good in Old Fort Smith
  • 06-26-60 – Some Memories of the Old Robbins Theater: A True Little Rock Landmark  
  • 06-27-60 – When Unions Convened At ‘Early Candlelight’
  • 06-29-60 – A Street Car Ride to Old West End Par

 

• File 23 – July 1960, Articles 379-394
  • 07-01-60 – When Death Came To Arkansas House
  • 07-03-60 – The Homespun Eloquence of Jeff Davis Was Aimed At State’s Common Man 
  • 07-04-60 – Maryhattiana Observes the ‘Glorious Fourth’
  • 07-06-60 – Martin Van Buren: Hero Turned ‘Goat’
  • 07-08-60 – An Epistle from Capt. Braxton Bragg (U.S.A.)
  • 07-10-60 – Some Memories of St. John’s College, A Foremost Educational Institution 
  • 07-11-60 – New Christ Church Was Finished In Year 1887
  • 07-17-60 – Thomas Stevenson Drew Became Governor of Arkansas by a Political ‘Accident’ 
  • 07-18-60 – An English Account Of State’s Early Society
  • 07-20-60 – An Army Medic’s View of Arkansas In 1850s
  • 07-23-60 – Agues and Fever on the Road to Dwight Mission
  • 07-24-60 – Occupation of Helena Gave Federals Control of Part of Mississippi River
  • 07-25-60 – Buffalo ‘Galls’ Won’t You Come Out Tonight?
  • 07-27-60 – From Philadelphia to ‘Ozark’ the Hard Way
  • 07-29-60 – Piety In Short Supply In Fort Smith Of 1843
  • 07-31-60 – Big Rock’s Mountain Park Hotel Was a Favorite Little Rock Resort In 1880s

 

• File 24 – August 1960, Articles 395-412
  • 08-01-60 – Van Buren as Jump-off Point To the Old West
  • 08-03-60 – Of Oxford Professors and Drunken ‘Texians’
  • 08-05-60 – Choctaws Were Fearful Of Arkansas Statehood
  • 08-07-60 – An Account of A ‘Gypsy’ Camping Tour Through Sections of Northern Arkansas 
  • 08-08-60 – Frozen Sacramental Wine in Deep South
  • 08-10-60 – John Law’s Legacy at the Post of Arkansas
  • 08-12-60 – Sex and Reminiscence at Hyde’s Opera House
  • 08-14-60 – ‘Arkansas Magazine’ Was the First Literary Periodical Published In State
  • 08-15-60 – An 1826 Report On the Arkansas Hot Springs
  • 08-17-60 – Pike Had Sharp Ear for Frontier Speech
  • 08-19-60 – Alligators and Ague along the Red River
  • 08-21-60 – Souvenir Issue Of Old Jonesboro Times Tells Of Community’s Era of Prosperity
  • 08-22-60 – The Do’s and Don’ts of University Life In ’73
  • 08-24-60 – Cruelty to Slaves Was Really Yankees’ Fault
  • 08-26-60 – A Naturalist’s Report from Western Arkansas 
  • 08-28-60 – Methodist Bishop Writes an Interesting Account Of His Journey through State
  • 08-29-60 – Shifting Channels on ‘the Father of Floods’ 
  • 08-30-60 – Osage Resentment for the Spanish Presence

 

• File 25 – September 1960, Articles 413-429
  • 09-02-60 – Vital Statistics in Ante-bellum Arkansas
  • 09-04-60 – Old Book Tells Of the Organization of Arkansas’s ‘Jackson Guards’ Company
  • 09-05-60 – Fun and Games In Hot Springs of The 1840s
  • 09-07-60 – An Early Example of the Quickie Divorce
  • 09-09-60 – From ‘Old Vienna’ To the Cherokee Nation
  • 09-11-60 – Arkansan Writes Interesting Description of the New Madrid Earthquake Of 1811 
  • 09-12-60 – ‘New Madrid’ Brought Terror to the River
  • 09-14-60 – Adding Up the Score on New Madrid Quake
  • 09-16-60 – ‘New Madrid’ Effects Felt Over Large Area
  • 09-18-60 – Political Controversy and Litigation Delayed Construction of State Capitol
  • 09-19-60 – Factories Of ’80s Too Prone To Toot Whistle
  • 09-21-60 – The Early Rush For Bids to Annapolis
  • 09-23-60 – An Early History of Banking in Arkansas
  • 09-25-60 – Old Little Rock University Drew an Impressive Enrollment in First Year
  • 09-26-60 – The Bank of Maryland Expands Into Arkansas
  • 09-28-60 – Federal Aid Proposed For the Creek Nation
  • 09-30-60 – ‘Pardon Me, But Are You Harry S. Truman?’

 

• File 26 – October 1960, Articles 430-447
  • 10-02-60 – New York Correspondent Writes Of the First Part of Battle of Pea Ridge
  • 10-03-60 – Minister’s Report from the Arkansas Territory
  • 10-05-60 – A Sentimental Journey Back To Prairie Grove
  • 10-07-60 – A Frenchman’s Contacts With ‘Akanzas’ Indians
  • 10-09-60 – Letter Tells Of Work on ‘Great Raft’ and Describes Journey to Hot Springs
  • 10-10-60 – A Glowing Look At the Spadra Mining Country
  • 10-12-60 – A Sociological Study of Frontier Arkansas
  • 10-14-60 – The Schoolcraft Party Visits North Arkansas
  • 10-16-60 – 1862 Letter from David O. Dodd Tells Of His Work as a Telegrapher in Monroe
  • 10-17-60 – Archibald Yell as A ‘Man Of the People’
  • 10-19-60 – An 1822 Penetration of Red River Country
  • 10-21-60 – A Missionary Bishop’s First Arkansas Visit
  • 10-23-60 – City’s Business Leaders United In ’80s to Form New Commercial Exchange
  • 10-24-60 – Early Pilgrimages to the ‘Arsenic Spring’
  • 10-26-60 – Arkansas Dogs Unkind To Strangers In 1838
  • 10-28-60 – An 1820 Survey along the Western Frontier
  • 10-30-60 – Conflicting Ownership Claims Impeded the Progress of Hot Springs In 1800s 
  • 10-31-60 – Genteel Learning in Fayetteville Of 1847

 

• File 27 – November 1960, Articles 448-464
  • 11-02-60 – Dwight Mission Had To Break Some Hard Turf
  • 11-04-60 – Wallflowers Few In Little Rock Of 1843
  • 11-06-60 – Book ‘Outposts of Zion’ Tells Of River Trip from Napoleon to Jefferson County
  • 11-07-60 – Spaniard vs. Indian in Arkansas Of 1790s
  • 11-09-60 – War Changed System of Supplying Plantations
  • 11-11-60 – Gerstaecker In Search Of Men Nine Feet Tall
  • 11-13-60 – Thomas Hart Benton Writes Of 1828 Cession of State Lands to Cherokees
  • 11-14-60 – Hard Lines on Road to Camp Walker (II)
  • 11-16-60 – An Examination of the Unionist View In 1860
  • 11-18-60 – North Arkansas Still No Man’s Land In ’65
  • 11-20-60 – The Gazette, Founded At Arkansas Post, Will Observe 141st Anniversary Today
  • 11-21-60 – A Fun-loving Drummer on the Texarkana Run
  • 11-23-60 – An Irish Catholic’s Mission to Arkansas
  • 11-25-60 – A 19th Century Look At Arkansas’s Press
  • 11-27-60 – Clergyman-Author Describes Band of Religious Fanatics near Arkansas Post
  • 11-28-60 – ‘Bill Cush’ Among the California ‘Goldbugs’
  • 11-30-60 – The Graceful Life In Ante-bellum Arkansas

 

• File 28 – December 1960, Articles 465-481
  • 12-02-60 – A Night at Altus’ ‘Old Licker House’
  • 12-04-60 – Document by Judge U.M. Rose Gives Views on the Pronunciation of ‘Arkansas’  
  • 12-05-60 – Harrison’s Go-getters at Turn of the Century
  • 12-07-60 – Free Translation in the Cherokee Nation
  • 12-09-60 – Game Bags and Carpet Bags in Booming ’70s
  • 12-11-60 – Engineer Officer Visits Hot Springs In ’18 – And Describes Its Topography, Geology
  • 12-12-60 – A Close-up Look At John Law’s Failure
  • 12-14-60 – When ‘Circuit-riding’ was A Spiritual Test
  • 12-16-60 – The Chickasaws Could Drive a Hard Bargain
  • 12-18-60 – Father Marquette Visits ‘Arkansas and Writes of Voyage Down the Mississippi
  • 12-19-60 – Some Medical History Reflections (Pre-AMA)
  • 12-21-60 – The Martial Spirit in White County – Pre-war
  • 12-23-60 – Schoolcraft and the Poke Bayou ‘Colons’
  • 12-25-60 – Businessman Visits Little Rock In ’45 and Compliments Its Friendly People
  • 12-26-60 – No Tea and Toast on Our Indian Frontier
  • 12-28-60 – Oxford Don Meets His First ‘Circuit-rider’
  • 12-30-60 – New Civil War Series Will Begin Next Week
  • 12-30-60 – Beginning Sunday – Chronicles of Arkansas Presents, “The Civil War in Arkansas”

 

• File 29 – January-February 1961, Articles 482-515, Second Series
  • 01-01-61 – New Year’s Day of 1861 Dawned On a Tense and Uneasy State and Nation
  • 01-02-61 – Civil War Separated Talkers from Do-ers
  • 01-04-61 – Time Grows Short For Backers of the Union
  • 01-06-61 – Gazette Views the New Year with Foreboding
  • 01-08-61 – 1860 Governor’s Nomination Brings a Three Way Split in Democratic Party 
  • 01-09-61 – An Uneasy ‘Normality’ On the Eve of Battle
  • 01-11-61 – Drum-maker Suggests a ‘Buy Arkansas’ Policy
  • 01-13-61 – State Moves Toward Point Of No Return
  • 01-15-61 – Gazette’s Policy in 1860: Constitution Can Resolve North-South Differences
  • 01-16-61 – Gazette Changes Line On the Biggest Issue
  • 01-18-61 – Buchanan’s Policy:  Too Much – Too Late
  • 01-20-61 – Georgia Elects Route of the Secessionists
  • 01-22-61 – Family Letters Show Differences over the Burning Issue Of Secession In ’61 
  • 01-23-61 – Danley Dons Second Hat as Arms Buyer
  • 01-25-61 – Secessionist Party Draws New Recruits
  • 01-27-61 – ‘Moderates’ Face the Old Familiar Squeeze
  • 01-29-61 – Newly Opened Telegraph Office Plays Significant Part in Secession Move
  • 01-30-61 – Little Rock Arsenal A Small-bore Sumter
  • 02-01-61 – Rector Sends Smoke Signal To the West
  • 02-03-61 – Arkansas Begins To Batten Down Hatches
  • 02-05-61 – False Rumor Tells Of Reinforcements for Arsenal; Rector Organizes Defense
  • 02-06-61 – Governor ‘Interposes’ Between Mob, Troops
  • 02-08-61 – ‘Preservator’ Rector Takes Key to Arsenal
  • 02-10-61 – ‘Minority’ Cause of Little Rock Trouble
  • 02-12-61 – Unionists and Secessionists Alike Were Opposed To Seizure of Federal Arsenal
  • 02-13-61 – Irregulars Move In On Army’s Supplies
  • 02-15-61 – Hope of Peace Was Long Time A-dying
  • 02-17-61 – Voters Asked To Look Again Before Leaping
  • 02-19-61 – As Arkansas Held Convention Election, the South Inaugurated Its President
  • 02-20-61 – Delegates Disclose Their Allegiances
  • 02-22-61 – More Delegates Show Their Affiliations
  • 02-24-61 – Still More on the Convention Line-up
  • 02-26-61 – Secession Feeling In State Ran High but Fort Smith Area Stood For Union
  • 02-27-61 – Children’s Crusade in Arkansas County

 

• File 30 – March-April 1961, Articles 516-550
  • 03-01-61 – Albert Pike Switches To Secessionist Line
  • 03-03-61 – Convention Settles Upon Its Officers
  • 03-05-61 – March 4, 1861—State Awaited Word of President Lincoln’s Inaugural Address
  • 03-06-61 – The Sparring Begins In State Convention
  • 03-08-61 – Initial Secession Motion Is Entered
  • 03-10-61 – More Minds Changed By Lincoln’s Speech
  • 03-12-61 – Convention Resolution Proposed Eight Amendments to Resolve the Controversy
  • 03-13-61 – Rector Sends Formal Word To Convention
  • 03-15-61 – Unionists’ Good Faith Impeached
  • 03-17-61 – Outsiders Push the Secession Campaign
  • 03-19-61 – Convention Continued While Arkansas’s Leaders Debated Secession Ordinance
  • 03-20-61 – Extremists Suffer Temporary Setback
  • 03-22-61 – The First Convention Session Is Adjourned
  • 03-24-61 – Two Sides Prepare For Showdown Vote
  • 03-26-61 – Resolutions, Circulars Urge Secession as Feeling on Issue Mounts Throughout State
  • 03-27-61 – Gazette Comes To Aid of Union’s Defenders
  • 03-29-61 – Gazette Carries the Fight to ‘Cossacks’
  • 03-31-61 – Gazette Firm For Moderates’ Cause
  • 04-02-61 – First Cavalry, Stationed At Fort Smith, Provided Top Generals for Both Armies
  • 04-03-61 – Troops Begin Some Preliminary Moves
  • 04-05-61 – The Letter-writers Chafe For Showdown
  • 04-07-61 – Army Shapes Up Its Defenses on Border
  • 04-09-61 – Sumter Falls—Lincoln’s Proclamation Is Final Blow to Unionism in Arkansas
  • 04-10-61 – Dancing On the Brink with a Ballet Master
  • 04-12-61 – The Military Drilling Now Begins In Earnest
  • 04-14-61 – Lincoln Issues His Call to the Troops
  • 04-16-61 – Northern, Western Sections of State Receive News of Proclamation, Sumter
  • 04-17-61 – Report from Sumter Changes Everything
  • 04-19-61 – Arkansans Rally To Different Standard
  • 04-21-61 – Second Convention Call Made Official
  • 04-23-61 – Five Military Units from Little Rock, Pulaski County Embark For Fort Smith
  • 04-24-61 – Confederates Make Counter Troop Call
  • 04-26-61 – Arkansas Sends Its Initial Volunteers
  • 04-28-61 – Editor of Gazette Outlines Strategy
  • 04-30-61 – Cincinnati Group Seizes Arms Shipment Bound For Arkansas – State Retaliates

 

• File 31 – May-June 1961, Articles 551-585
  • 05-01-61 – May Day Revelries Take On New Sound
  • 05-03-61 – ‘Defiant’ Loner Is Brought Into Line
  • 05-05-61 – Time for Choosing Up On the Campuses
  • 05-07-61 – Convention Meets and Takes Historic Step – State Secedes From the Union
  • 05-08-61 – One More Vote For Secession Majority
  • 05-10-61 – ‘Regulators’ Ride In Prairie County
  • 05-12-61 – Convention Speeds Order Of Business
  • 05-14-61 – 1st Arkansas Infantry Assembles After Secession Ordinance, Moves To Virginia
  • 05-15-61 – Second Thoughts on Seizure of ‘Arago’
  • 05-17-61 – Privateering Gets Convention’s Okay
  • 05-19-61 – Pike On Mission to the Indian Country
  • 05-21-61 – Convention Asks Confederacy’s Plans for Defense of East, West Frontiers
  • 05-22-61 – Convention Acts To Bridge a New Chasm
  • 05-24-61 – State Troops Move To Western Border
  • 05-26-61 – The War-like Spirit and the Word of God
  • 05-28-61 – Confederacy Seeks Arkansas Regiments for Assignment to the Indian Frontier
  • 05-29-61 – Vigilantes Rally In Fulton County
  • 05-31-61 – Unrest, Confusion Beset State Banks
  • 06-02-61 – Arkansas Force On Scene in Virginia
  • 06-04-61 – Convention Completes Its Business – Session Finally Adjourns On June 1, 1861
  • 06-05-61 – Union Forces Fear Move Toward Cairo
  • 06-07-61 – Hindman Ready To Leave for Virginia
  • 06-09-61 – Encampments Set Up Along Mississippi
  • 06-11-61 – The South Adopts ‘Dixie’ As Its Song – – Albert Pike Composes Popular Variation
  • 06-12-61 – Invincible Guards Move Into Capital
  • 06-14-61 – Davis Sets Day for Fasting and Prayer
  • 06-16-61 – A Firm ‘No’ From Cherokee Nation
  • 06-18-61 – Events in Missouri Provide Background for the Civil War Situation in Arkansas
  • 06-19-61 – Change Of Name for Totten’s Artillery
  • 06-21-61 – Arkansas Divided On Use of Troops
  • 06-23-61 – State Troubled By Indian Neutralists
  • 06-25-61 – McCulloch Rallies People Of State to Repel Possible Invasion from Missouri
  • 06-26-61 – ‘First’ Fourth Is Observed As Usual
  • 06-28-61 – News Blackout Is Observed In State
  • 06-30-61 – Sale of War Bonds Picks Up In State

 

• File 32 – July-August 1961, Articles 586-620
  • 07-02-61 – State Troops March Toward Missouri, Meet Enemy, Win Bloodless Victory
  • 07-03-61 – Pike’s Mission to Creeks Successful
  • 07-05-61 – Union Rebuffed In Southern Missouri
  • 07-07-61 – McCulloch Pulls Back To Regroup
  • 07-09-61 – War Preparations Continue As Forces Under McCulloch Advance in Missouri
  • 07-10-61 – McCulloch Shifts Encampment Place
  • 07-12-61 – Spa Eyes War Nix On Tourist Trade
  • 07-14-61 – South Sees Signs of Divine Intervention
  • 07-16-61 – General Hardee, Over Opposition, Makes Transfer of State Troops to Confederacy
  • 07-17-61 – State Continues To Mobilize and Deploy
  • 07-19-61 – Self-censorship In the Arkansas Press
  • 07-21-61 – Red Tape Delays Troop Transfers
  • 07-23-61 – Bull Run—First Great Battle of War – – Ends In Decisive Confederate Victory
  • 07-24-61 – State Claims Own ‘Volunteer’ Motto
  • 07-26-61 – State Inventories Its War Materials
  • 07-28-61 – Adopting That Old ‘Intercourse Law’
  • 07-30-61 – McCulloch, Pearce and Price Agree To Join Forces for March on Springfield
  • 07-31-61 – Scorecards Differ On Missouri Ambush
  • 08-02-61 – The Stage Is Set At Wilson’s Creek
  • 08-04-61 – Feds Steal A March In Early Morning Raid
  • 08-06-61 – North, South Both Claim Victory at Wilson’s Creek— but South Won It
  • 08-07-61 – Second-guessing After Oak Hills
  • 08-09-61 – Price, McCulloch, Split On Strategy
  • 08-11-61 – Second-guessing On Battle of Oak Hills
  • 08-13-61 – Union Forces, Reinforcements Missing, Retreat From Springfield To Rolla, Mo.
  • 08-14-61 – Newspapers Laud Woodruff’s Unit
  • 08-16-61 – More Dissension on Transfer of Troops
  • 08-18-61 – In Camp with the ‘Fourth Arkansas’
  • 08-20-61 – With Unity of Command, Supplies, Arms – Confederacy Might Have Taken Missouri
  • 08-21-61 – Waiting For the Word from Old New Madrid
  • 08-23-61 – State Prepares For a New Kind of Vote
  • 08-25-61 – Recruiters Moving In On Little Rock
  • 08-27-61 – McCulloch Decides To Fall Back To Arkansas to Strengthen His Brigade
  • 08-28-61 – ‘Rhyme and Reason’ South Of That Line
  • 08-30-61 – War Effort Hurt By Newsprint Shortage

 

• File 33 – September-October 1961, Articles 621-681 
  • 09-01-61 – Preparations for School Affected By War Fears
  • 09-02-61 – How Arkansas Schools Planned For 1861 Terms
  • 09-03-61 – Conflicting Reports, Criticism – – Charges Of Cowardice Mark Battle of Oak Hills
  • 09-04-61 – Arguments Over Arms and Areas of Command
  • 09-05-61 – Deployment, Transfers, Supply Cause Headaches
  • 09-06-61 – Need For Guns Published As Armory Established
  • 09-07-61 – Problem of Protection for Western Arkansas
  • 09-08-61 – Jealousy, Resentment Crop Up In Command
  • 09-09-61 – Military Board Comes In For Additional Criticism
  • 09-10-61 – Confederate Election Of ’61 Unusual – Davis and Stephens Had No Opposition
  • 09-11-61 – Recruiting Campaign Is Pushed In Arkansas
  • 09-12-61 – Yankee P.O.W.S Create Mild Sensation in State
  • 09-13-61 – Soldiers Elect Officers and Get Some Clothes
  • 09-14-61 – Volunteers Homesick, They Decide To Disband
  • 09-15-61 – Pike Calls On Choctaws to Join Confederacy
  • 09-16-61 – Hardee Gets Orders to Move His Command
  • 09-17-61 – Arkansas Names Four Members to the Confederate House Of Representatives

 

• File 34 – November-December 1961, Articles 682-742
  • 11-01-61 – News Reaches Arkansas of Federal Shipbuilding
  • 11-02-61 – Soldiers Keep Friends and Families Informed
  • 11-03-61 – War News Crowds Out Reporting On Little Rock
  • 11-04-61 – Two Views Put Forth on Defense of Arkansas
  • 11-05-61 – Special Legislative Session Convenes – Rector Calls for Irish, German Regiments
  • 11-06-61 – War Bond Depreciation Causes Much Concern
  • 11-07-61 – Charges of Inefficiency Plague Military Board
  • 11-08-61 – Home Guard Abolished In Favor Of the Militia
  • 11-09-61 – Railroad Faces Threat Of Losing Land in State
  • 11-10-61 – Memphis Home Provides Care for Ill Soldiers
  • 11-11-61 – Information on Industry Sought By Confederacy
  • 11-12-61 – Grant Attacks at Belmont, Mo. – Secures Position and Retires; Both Claim Victory
  • 11-13-61 – Shadow Of Suspicion Falls on Germans, Irish
  • 11-14-61 – Negroes Do Their Part in Fund-raising Drives
  • 11-15-61 – Much Progress Made In Telegraph Service
  • 11-16-61 – Women’s New Fashions Irritate Journal Editor
  • 11-17-61 – Uncertainty of River Still a Big Problem
  • 11-18-61 – New Little Rock Daily Boasts Big Circulation
  • 11-19-61 – Federal Force, Including Grant, Takes the Field Against General M. Jeff Thompson
  • 11-20-61 – Volunteers Sign Up For the Fourth Arkansas
  • 11-21-61 – Colonel Cleburne Wins Promotion to General
  • 11-22-61 – Confederates Construct Fortifications on River
  • 11-23-61 – Pike Gets Command of Indian Territory
  • 11-24-61 – General Hindman Routs the Yankees in Kentucky
  • 11-25-61 – Masons and Odd Fellows Convene At Little Rock
  • 11-26-61 – Union Forces Withdraw From Springfield – Halleck Takes Over Western Command
  • 11-27-61 – Arkansas Press Slow To Criticize McCulloch
  • 11-28-61 – Another Battalion Joins Service of Confederacy
  • 11-29-61 – Unionists from Hills Face Treason Charges
  • 11-30-61 – Military Takes Steps to Curb Speculators
  • 12-01-61 – Ex-Arkansan Invents New Battering Ram
  • 12-02-61 – Press, Military Board Keep Old Feud Going
  • 12-03-61 – Gazette’s Criticism of Military Board Results In Challenge to Editor Danley
  • 12-04-61 – Commanders of Militia Inspect Their Units
  • 12-05-61 – Journal’s Weekly Paper Fails To Get Off Ground
  • 12-06-61 – Price’s Aide Visits State To Enlist Some Troops
  • 12-07-61 – 4 Entertainments Held For Benefit of Soldiers
  • 12-08-61 – 4th Arkansas Leaves Little Rock for Kentucky
  • 12-09-61 – McCulloch’s Troops Go Into Winter Quarters
  • 12-10-61 – Conflict Between McCulloch and Price Rises; Former Pleads Case in Richmond
  • 12-11-61 – Garland Wins Election; Unionist Charge Fails
  • 12-12-61 – Mechanics Unite To Fight Pay System’s Hazards
  • 12-13-61 – Funds Are Apportioned For Railroad Completion
  • 12-14-61 – Two Colonels’ Dispute Comes Before Public
  • 12-15-61 – Artillery Group Forms, Moves to Little Rock
  • 12-16-61 – Secession Almost Halts Arkansas’s Commerce
  • 12-17-61 – Davis Strongly Resists Proposal to Give Western Command to Gen. Sterling Price
  • 12-18-61 – Confederate Congress Enacts Bonus Legislation
  • 12-19-61 – 12th Arkansas Regiment Is Sent To Missouri Fort
  • 12-20-61 – Loss of Postal System Brings South Problems
  • 12-21-61 – Borland Stays In News with Order on Finance
  • 12-22-61 – Little Rock Firm Tries To Keep Prices Down
  • 12-23-61 – Hindman’s Men Asked To a Ball in Kentucky
  • 12-24-61 – Colonel Cooper Conducts Campaign In the Indian Territory West Of Arkansas
  • 12-25-61 – Sixth Arkansas Treated To Feast for Federals
  • 12-26-61 – Pike Goes To Richmond with His Indian Treaties
  • 12-27-61 – Journal Gives Report of a Kansas Refugee
  • 12-28-61 – Newspapers Take Up Discussion of New Flag
  • 12-29-61 – Southerners Examine Symbols of Old Nation
  • 12-30-61 – The 12-months Soldiers Receive Poor Treatment
  • 12-31-61 – Secret Society of Union Sympathizers Is discovered In Northern Arkansas

  End of Box 1

 

Box 2

• File 1 – January-February 1962, Articles 743-801
  • 01-01-62 – Gee’s Fifteenth Infantry Enters Army of South
  • 01-02-62 – Two Missourians Sent To Get Arkansas Legion
  • 01-03-62 – Missouri General Fails to Receive Appointment
  • 01-04-62 – Gantt Requests Troops from State; Plea Denied
  • 01-05-62 – Officers Hope To Put Arkansans in 1 Brigade
  • 01-06-62 – Few Arkansans Made Generals; Papers Gripe
  • 01-07-62 – Capable and Well-qualified West Pointer Takes Over Trans-Mississippi District
  • 01-08-62 – Several In State Offer Designs for South’s Flag
  • 01-09-62 – 1861 Cotton Is Unsold, Presents Farm Problem
  • 01-10-62 – South Realizes Need to Be Self-Sustaining
  • 01-11-62 – Mayor of Little Rock Re-Elected Unopposed
  • 01-12-62 – Special Session Passes Plan On Tax Relief
  • 01-12-62 – Facing Money Crisis, South Turns To Bonds
  • 01-14-62 – January 26 Is Historic Day for State – – Memphis and Little Rock Railroad Opens
  • 01-15-62 – Little Rock Unprepared for Maxey’s ill Soldiers
  • 01-16-62 – State Sadly Lacking In Hospital Facilities
  • 01-17-62 – Newspapers Modify Attacks on Military Board
  • 01-18-62 – Journal Tries To ‘Divide’ Press Foes of Rector
  • 01-19-62 – War Begins To Take Toll Among Newspapers
  • 01-20-62 – Produce Sales Controls Bring Attacks on Borland
  • 01-21-62 – Federal Army Uses the Winter Months to Train Troops – – CSA Misses Opportunity
  • 01-22-62 – Pike Returns To State After Report on Indians
  • 01-23-62 – Many Arkansans Cured At Hospital in Memphis
  • 01-24-62 – Little Rock Business Thrives Despite War
  • 01-25-62 – General, Paper Offer Wool-Weaving Prizes
  • 01-26-62 – Sectional Bias Distorts News from the North
  • 01-27-62 – Pillow’s Claim to Fame Based on Martial Career
  • 01-28-62 – Confederate, Union Armies Plan Major Reorganizations In two Vital Theaters
  • 01-29-62 – Pennsylvania Captain Sank Boat Deliberately
  • 01-30-62 – Rise In Cost Of Living Greater At Little Rock
  • 01-31-62 – Little Rock Man Finds a New Tanning Process
  • 02-01-62 – Rail Firm Asks Funds to Complete Its Line
  • 02-02-62 – Need For Small Change Continues To Be Problem
  • 02-03-62 – Confederate Congress Holds Its First Session
  • 02-04-62 – Fall Of an Important Fort in Tennessee Shocks Confederacy from Complacency
  • 02-05-62 – Little Rock Realizes Need for a Hospital
  • 02-06-62 – News of February ’62 Tells Of Army Changes
  • 02-07-62 – Arrival of Van Dorn Curtails Recruiting Plan
  • 02-08-62 – Rector Issues Request For 8,500 Volunteers
  • 02-09-62 – Gazette Attacks Gantt as Incompetent, Climber
  • 02-10-62 – Two Generals’ Arrival Brings Troops to Posts
  • 02-11-62 – Grant Takes Fort Donelson, Tennessee, In First Major Victory for Union Army
  • 02-12-62 – Forts Henry, Donelson Fall; South Is Alarmed
  • 02-13-62 – Van Dorn Gives Orders to Concentrate Troops
  • 02-14-62 – Price Tarries Too Long At Offices in Springfield
  • 02-15-62 – Reports of Price Retreat Reach Colonel Herbert
  • 02-16-62 – South Reportedly Wins Skirmish at Potts’ Hill
  • 02-17-62 – North’s General Asboth Sent to Take Bentonville
  • 02-18-62 – McCulloch’s ‘Scorched Earth’ Policy Draws Strong Protests Over the State
  • 02-19-62 – Curtis Orders Asboth to Enter Fayetteville
  • 02-20-62 – Confederates Restless At Camp in Mountains
  • 02-21-62 – Federal Numbers, Actions Are Difficult To Estimate
  • 02-22-62 – New Threat of Invasion Presented In Northeast
  • 02-23-62 – Price Wants Position; Two Others Fall Back
  • 02-24-62 – Crump’s Cavalry Unit Honored At Washington
  • 02-25-62 – Prelude to Pea Ridge-Two Great Armies Assemble In Hills of Northwest Arkansas
  • 02-26-62 – 17th Arkansas Regiment Plagued By Disasters
  • 02-27-62 – Request Of Van Dorn Boosts State Recruiting
  • 02-28-62 – General Van Dorn Visits Camp To Settle Dispute

 

• File 2 – March-April 1962, Articles 802-862
  • 03-01-62 – Van Dorn Begins Drive Toward Federal Camps
  • 03-02-62 – Union Private Gathers Facts on Price’s Camp
  • 03-03-62 – Carr’s Division Arrives Before Van Dorn Acts
  • 03-04-62 – Bloody Battle of Pea Ridge Begins
  • 03-05-62 – Van Dorn, Curtis Review Events, Await the Dawn
  • 03-06-62 – Curtis Moves Troops, Orders Them to Hold
  • 03-07-62 – Illinois Company Fires, Ends McCulloch’s Career
  • 03-08-62 – Curtis’ Title for Battle Remains: It’s Pea Ridge
  • 03-09-62 – Reports Of Battle Events Given; Many Fantastic
  • 03-10-62 – Soldiers Attribute Defeat to Death of 2 Leaders
  • 03-11-62 – Second Day of Pea Ridge Dawns
  • 03-12-62 – Reports On Armies’ Size at Pea Ridge Conflict
  • 03-13-62 – Van Dorn Sends Party to Negotiate Exchange
  • 03-14-62 – Two Doctors Provide Pea Ridge Information
  • 03-15-62 – Curtis Protests Tactics of Albert Pike’s Indians
  • 03-17-62 – News from Pea Ridge Distributed Quite Slowly
  • 03-18-62 – The Retreat from Pea Ridge- It Was More Disastrous Than A Dozen Battles
  • 03-19-62 – Telegraph Lines Used To Advantage of Curtis
  • 03-20-62 – Several Divisions Late For Battle of Pea Ridge
  • 03-21-62 – Fire Prompts Report That Dead Were Burned
  • 03-22-62 – Curtis Moves Quarters To Appraise Situation
  • 03-23-62 – Expedition Sent To Find Confederate Guerrillas
  • 03-24-62 – South Suffers Heaviest In River Swamp Fighting
  • 03-25-62 – Governor Rector Calls Special Session of Assembly Despite Strong Opposition
  • 03-26-62 – Nine Union Soldiers Win Medals in Arkansas Duty
  • 03-27-62 – Land Sales Suspended, Land Officers’ Pay Cut
  • 03-28-62 – 2 Arkansas Acts Reject Grain Shortage of War
  • 03-29-62 – Fayetteville Judge Holds Staunch Union Sentiment
  • 03-30-62 – Curtis Orders Troops to Behave Cautiously
  • 03-31-62 – Troops Continue Moving Although Van Dorn Gone
  • 04-01-62 – Confederate Forces Make Their Stand at Island 10, Below Columbus, Kentucky
  • 04-02-62 – Brent Finds Evacuation Early At New Madrid
  • 04-03-62 – Stewart and Walker Direct 2 Evacuations
  • 04-04-62 – 1862 Congress Ponders How to Abolish Slavery
  • 04-05-62 – Senator Johnson Had Great Political Influence
  • 04-06-62 – Johnson, Rector Agree Fighting Needs Limiting
  • 04-07-62 – Many Non-Arkansans Raise Troops in State
  • 04-08-62 – Federal General John Pope Establishes Base of Operations Against Island 10
  • 04-09-62 – Cook Commands Troops in Evacuation of Island
  • 04-10-62 – Reports Unsatisfactory On Action on Island 10
  • 04-11-62 – Pope Goes Down River After Taking Island 10
  • 04-12-62 – Federal Visit at Osceola Used To Survey Region
  • 04-13-62 – Planters Are Requested To Give Plantation Bells
  • 04-14-62 – Men Are Off To War, Women Begin Working
  • 04-15-62 – Shiloh- One of the Bloodiest Battles of Civil War – Is Fought In Tennessee
  • 04-16-62 – 13th Arkansas Regiment Fought In Shiloh Battle
  • 04-17-62 – Two Helena Generals Direct Brigades at Shiloh
  • 04-18-62 – Patterson’s 8th Arkansas Was In Wood’s Brigade
  • 04-19-62 – Capital Guards Captain Describes Shiloh Vividly
  • 04-20-62 – Federal Army Begins Drive from Pea Ridge
  • 04-21-62 – Confederate Congress Passes Conscription Act
  • 04-22-62 – Van Dorn Plans To Move His Forces to Co-operate With Johnston, Beauregard
  • 04-23-62 – Van Dorn Issues Call For Texas Regiments
  • 04-24-62 – Little Rock Gets Report That Federals on Way
  • 04-25-62 – Pike’s Supplies, Men Shift to Van Dorn’s Use
  • 04-26-62 – 4 Or 5 Buildings Used As Emergency Hospitals
  • 04-27-62 – North Takes Telegraph; News Reports Hampered
  • 04-28-62 – Federal Spring Drive Brings Newspaper Crisis
  • 04-29-62 – General Curtis Leaves Pea Ridge Area But Still Plans Major Attack on Little Rock
  • 04-30-62 – Curtis’ Soldiers Find Batesville Is Delightful

 

• File 3 – May-June 1962, Articles 863-923
  • 05-01-62 – Halleck Takes To Field After Battle of Shiloh
  • 05-02-62 – Rumors Are Circulated That Phelps Is Governor
  • 05-03-62 – Union Army’s Presence Tests Citizens’ Loyalty
  • 05-04-62 – Curtis Readies March by Planning Supply Line
  • 05-05-62 – Closeness of Federals Brings Fears for Cotton
  • 05-06-62 – Curtis’ Plan to Capture Little Rock Forces Flight To Southwest Arkansas
  • 05-07-62 – Arkansas Papers Lead Protest Of Proclamation
  • 05-08-62 – Rector Remains Silent Until Farewell Speech
  • 05-09-62 – Roane Is Left In Charge to Forward the Troops
  • 05-10-62 – Texas Troops, Needing Rest, Halt at Washington
  • 05-11-62 – Local Women Organize To Care for Ill Soldiers
  • 05-12-62 – 2 Congressmen Return Holding Hope for South
  • 05-13-62 – Floods, Supply Difficulties Doom Curtis’ Plan for a Major Attack On Little Rock
  • 05-14-62 – State Changes Opinion on Guerrilla Warfare
  • 05-15-62 – General Roane Declares Martial Law in Little Rock
  • 05-16-62 – Few Complaints Heard About Law Proclamation
  • 05-17-62 – Rector And Editor Plan Duel, But It’s Called Off
  • 05-18-62 – Editor Publishes Letters About Duel That Failed
  • 05-19-62 – Charles Ellet Ordered To Set Up Steam Fleet
  • 05-20-62 – Curtis Leaves Camp Near Searcy Landing and Returns to Batesville Headquarters
  • 05-21-62 – Curtis Sends Out Scouts to Disperse Proponents
  • 05-22-62 – Yankees, Confederates Complain Of Brutality
  • 05-23-62 – Batesville, Jacksonport Publish Union Journals
  • 05-24-62 – Reorganization Begins Under Conscript Act
  • 05-25-62 – Act Stirs Displeasure, But There’s Brightness
  • 05-26-62 – General Hindman Gives Orders For Encounter
  • 05-27-62 – Beauregard’s Shattered Forces Retreat from Shiloh – – To Corinth, Mississippi
  • 05-28-62 – Beauregard Dispatches Force To Meet Advance
  • 05-29-62 – Curtis Fears a Fleet, but it’s Only One Boat
  • 05-30-62 – Curtis Hopes To Capture the Gunboat Maurepas
  • 05-31-62 – Cavalry Unit Departs To Raid Federal Camp
  • 06-01-62 – March Is Uneventful, So Soldiers Act Foolish
  • 06-02-62 – Curtis Asks Permission to Raise 10 Regiments
  • 06-03-62 – Conflicting Orders Create New Defense Commands in Trans-Mississippi Area
  • 06-04-62 – Needing Men, Hindman Threatens, Gets His Way
  • 06-05-62 – Hindman’s Men Gather Arms and Ammunition
  • 06-06-62 – Memphis Surrendered After Short Naval Fight
  • 06-07-62 – Federals Break, Retreat After Reed River Incident
  • 06-08-62 – Cotton Burning Started; Hindman Eases Policy
  • 06-09-62 – Curtis Says Guerrillas Must Face Death Penalty
  • 06-10-62 – Pike Reluctant To Strip His Depleted Command to Meet March on Little Rock
  • 06-11-62 – Hindman Sends Troops but Federals Retreating
  • 06-12-62 – Colonel Sends for Food; Southerners Raid Party
  • 06-13-62 – Steamer Clara Dolson Outruns Federal Boats
  • 06-14-62 – Gunboat Arkansas Stirs Fear In Federal Hearts
  • 06-15-62 – Hindman Issues Order, Requests Citizen Units
  • 06-16-62 – Seley Sends Men to Get Food; They Meet Trouble
  • 06-17-62 – Federal White River Expedition Opens With Major Engagement at St. Charles
  • 06-18-62 – Danley Takes Over Under Martial Law
  • 06-19-62 – Fate Settles Question of Western Command
  • 06-20-62 – Hindman Reorganizes Hospitals at Little Rock
  • 06-21-62 – Missouri Unit Burdened With Excess Generals
  • 06-22-62 – Troops Don’t Show Up; Curtis Grows Nervous
  • 06-23-62 – Yarn Factory Owner Irritates His Customers
  • 06-24-62 – Curtis Makes A ‘Sherman’s March’ In Attempt to Join White River Expedition
  • 06-25-62 – Rust Lacks Time, Alters Plan to Block Federals
  • 06-26-62 – Fitch Sends Transports with Supplies for Curtis
  • 06-27-62 – Jacksonport Residents Are Hostile To Federals
  • 06-28-62 – Curtis’ Troops Begin the March to Augusta
  • 06-29-62 – Public Lacks Reports On Curtis’ Movements
  • 06-30-62 – Curtis’ Army Leaves Augusta for Clarendon

 

• File 4 – July-August 1962, Articles 924-985
  • 07-01-62 – Cache River Battle See-saw Affair but Union Forces Finally Win Day
  • 07-02-62 – Curtis Pushes Forward, Has Supply Problems
  • 07-03-62 – Curtis Denies Rumors’ Letter Disputes Denials
  • 07-04-62 – Curtis’ Actions Assailed By Both South, North
  • 07-05-62 – Washburn Moves Out; March Proves Difficult
  • 07-06-62 – Troops Behind Army; Forced March Made
  • 07-07-62 – Hindman Makes Effort to Halt Curtis’ March
  • 07-08-62 – General Curtis Occupies Helena – – And A Side Observation on the ‘Camel Corps’
  • 07-09-62 – Fifteenth Texas Cavalry Camps Near Batesville
  • 07-10-62 – Hindman Issues Order Setting Up Martial Law
  • 07-11-62 – Colonel Danley Issues Regulations for District
  • 07-12-62 – Hindman’s Act Forces Unionists to Flee State
  • 07-13-62 – Federal Army Arrests Many Civilians in State
  • 07-14-62 – Hindman Agents Scour Countryside for Guns
  • 07-15-62 – The Ironclad Ram ‘Arkansas’ Strikes Terror as it Moves On the Union Fleet
  • 07-16-62 – Defense of Missouri is Left to New Militia
  • 07-17-62 – Curtis Continues To Give Free Papers to Slaves
  • 07-18-62 – Curtis Seeks Troops; Authorization Is Delayed
  • 07-19-62 – Colonel Is Authorized To Raise State Cavalry
  • 07-20-62 – Confederates Receive Arms Despite Blockade
  • 07-21-62 – Shaler Takes Regiment, Is Received Unpopularly
  • 07-22-62 – Federal Troops from Kansas Move South To Reclaim Indian Territory for Union
  • 07-23-62 – Halleck Sends Curtis Governorship Orders
  • 07-24-62 – Sentiment Runs High Against Hindman Rule
  • 07-25-62 – Federal Action Learned, Hindman Acts Similarly
  • 07-26-62 – Small Southern Force Keeps Federals on Edge
  • 07-27-62 – Federal Colonel Craves Activity, Earns Rebuke
  • 07-28-62 – Many Local Negroes Join Federal March
  • 07-29-62 – Pike Is Unable To Keep His Department Independent – – He Resigns His Command
  • 07-30-62 – 4 Southern Governors Meet Secretly In Texas
  • 07-31-62 – Some Questions Arise On Moving Of Archives
  • 08-01-62 – Many Desert Hindman; Executions End Flights
  • 08-02-62 – 3-man Panel Is Named To Judge the Disloyal
  • 08-03-62 – Colonel Fagan Reports Resignation at Little Rock
  • 08-04-62 – Curtis Goes To Helena, Puts Off Capital March
  • 08-05-62 – Ram Arkansas’s Career Is Ended As Her Crew Destroys Her Near Baton Rouge
  • 08-06-62 – Hovey’s Division Leaves, But Returns to Helena
  • 08-07-62 – Federal Force Is Sent To Check White River
  • 08-08-62 – A Former Confederate Gives Hovey Information
  • 08-09-62 – Summer Of ’62 Brings 2 Big Postal Changes
  • 08-10-62 – Business Restrictions Draw Strong Protests
  • 08-11-62 – Issuing Of Free Papers Brings Wrath on Curtis
  • 08-12-62 – Holmes Takes Command at Little Rock – Adopts Hindman’s Harsh Policies
  • 08-13-62 – Price’s Men Believe They’ll Be in Campaign
  • 08-14-62 – Holmes Finds Hindman Putting Army Together
  • 08-15-62 – Conscription Increased; Many Forced To Flee
  • 08-16-62 – Two Find Arkadelphia Filled With Sick Soldiers
  • 08-17-62 – Federal Army Begins Raiding To Take Cotton
  • 08-18-62 – Action in Mississippi Hurts Arkansas Army
  • 08-19-62 – Rector’s Gubernatorial Term Cut In Half by State Supreme Court Ruling Of 1862
  • 08-20-62 – Curtis Gets Permission to Build Fort at Helena
  • 08-21-62 – Illinois Infantryman Tells Of Activities Along River
  • 08-22-62 – Sutlers Reap Profits; Whiskey Trade Halted
  • 08-23-62 – Hindman Orders Boards to Consider Violations
  • 08-24-62 – Regulation on Passports Proves Very Unpopular
  • 08-25-62 – Pike Returns To Home Amid Hindman Dispute
  • 08-26-62 – ‘King’ Cotton Gains More Significance as an Economic Factor in the Civil War
  • 08-27-62 – Gubernatorial Campaign Begins Late In August
  • 08-28-62 – Editors Offer Advice on Legislative Session
  • 08-29-62 – Many Seek To Evade Draft; Rules Tightened
  • 08-30-62 – Curtis Sends Expedition to Take Southern Boat
  • 08-31-62 – Schools Closed By War; Many Tell Of Reopening

 

• File 5 – September-October 1962, Articles 986-1046
  • 09-01-62 – Slow, Uncertain Mails Create Anxiety in State
  • 09-02-62 – Curtis Takes Leave Of Absence; Steele Assumes Federal Southwest Command
  • 09-03-62 – Holmes Mild-Mannered; Order Gives Example
  • 09-04-62 – Debts of Confederacy Continue To Rise in State
  • 09-05-62 – Capture Of the Fair Play Adds to Arms Shortage
  • 09-06-62 – Blankets, Clothes Sought Anew As Summer Ends
  • 09-07-62 – Holmes Finds Command Is Deficient In Officers
  • 09-08-62 – McBride Made General; Action Is Unconfirmed
  • 09-09-62 – 1862 Campaign Unique—the Winning Candidate Didn’t Know He Was Running
  • 09-10-62 – Governors’ Conclave Drafted Letter to Davis
  • 09-11-62 – Federal Cavalry Raids Boat During Unloading
  • 09-12-62 – First Battle of Campaign Ends In Southern Victory
  • 09-13-62 – Eager For Big March, Federals Grow Restless
  • 09-14-62 – Austrian’s Book Gives Account of Arkansas
  • 09-15-62 – A Hopeful Season Destined To Be Short
  • 09-16-62 – Arkansas Troops in Battle of Luka – Prelude To the Great Conflict at Corinth
  • 09-17-62 – Shelby Gets Brigade Under Federals’ Noses
  • 09-18-62 – Hindman Sends Brigade to Drive Out Federals
  • 09-19-62 – Price Awaits Return After Mississippi Battles
  • 09-20-62 – Most Southerners End Action in Arkansas
  • 09-21-62 – Isaac Murphy, Unionist, Departs With Federals
  • 09-22-62 – Private in Texas Unit Recalls Arkansas March
  • 09-23-62 – South’s Guerrilla Tactics Gain Increasing Prominence During Summer and Fall Of ‘62
  • 09-24-62 – Curtis’ Leave Revoked, He Assumes Command
  • 09-25-62 – Carr Put In Command; Steele Demanding March
  • 09-26-62 – Federal Parties Meet, In Error, Shoot It Out
  • 09-27-62 – Confused Texas Unionist Finally Reaches Safety
  • 09-28-62 – Prisoner Return Begins; Arkansan Included
  • 09-29-62 – Supplies Running Short; Substitutes Improvised
  • 09-30-62 – Battle of Corinth Is Federal Victory—But Rosecrans Praises Confederate Heroism
  • 10-01-62 – Van Dorn Retreats, With Slight Opposition
  • 10-02-62 – Holmes Assigns Stations to Men Under Him
  • 10-03-62 – Brigade Under Shaver Marches to Yellville
  • 10-04-62 – Salt Shortage Acute, Holmes Takes Action
  • 10-05-62 – Carr Takes Command; Force Sharply Reduced
  • 10-06-62 – Rain Prevents Holmes from Completing Order
  • 10-07-62 – Royston Moves to Block Martial Law As ’62 Confederate Congress Convenes
  • 10-08-62 – New Weekly Newspaper Assailed As Rector Sheet
  • 10-09-62 – Efforts Are Increased To Aid Soldiers’ Families
  • 10-10-62 – Reports of Life in North Influence Slaves to Stay
  • 10-11-62 – Attacked Federals Panic, Then Southerners Flee
  • 10-12-62 – Fat Federal’s Hiding Leads To a Thumping
  • 10-13-62 – Major Begins March, But Returns to Missouri
  • 10-14-62 – Schofield’s Army of the Frontier Moves into Arkansas—Prepares for Campaign
  • 10-15-62 – Southerners Fall Back In Northwest Arkansas
  • 10-16-62 – Union General Decides Not To Pursue Shelby
  • 10-17-62 – Texas Units Ordered To Move to Virginia
  • 10-18-62 – Army’s Size Increases But Readiness Doubtful
  • 10-19-62 – Davis Told Of Weapons; They Were Big Problems
  • 10-20-62 – Federal General Grows Uneasy, Fearing Attack
  • 10-21-62 – Schofield Strikes Last Blow In Arkansas –Army of Frontier Returns to Missouri
  • 10-22-62 – Federal Troops Meet Fayetteville’s ‘Wild Bill’
  • 10-23-62 – A Hungry Union Army Finds Its Own Supplies
  • 10-24-62 – Union Men Hate To See Army Leave Fayetteville
  • 10-25-62 – Union Foraging Party Is Taken By Surprise
  • 10-26-62 – Victorious Band Flees To Safety Across White
  • 10-27-62 – Federal Troops Take Current River Ferry
  • 10-28-62 – Pike-Hindman Controversy Continues While Richmond Studies Their Charges
  • 10-29-62 – Gazette Editor Suffers Injury That Proves Fatal
  • 10-30-62 – Doctor, Believed Dead, Manages To Get Home
  • 10-31-62 – Federal Troops Revisit Pea Ridge Battlefield

 

• File 6 – November-December 1962, Articles 1047-1107
  • 11-01-62 – Martial Law Is Lifted; Civil Courts Reopened
  • 11-02-62 – 2 Newspapers Forced To Raise Their Rates
  • 11-03-62 – Legislature Convenes Minus Complete Roster
  • 11-04-62 – Rector Delivers His Farewell Address; Flanagin Is Inaugurated on November 15
  • 11-05-62 – Legislature Passes Act To Aid Indigent Families
  • 11-06-62 – 14th Assembly Passes Slave Conscription Act
  • 11-07-62 – Legislature Amplifies Government Safety Plan
  • 11-08-62 – Act Of 1862 Suspends State’s Collecting Taxes
  • 11-09-62 – True Democrat Assails Rector’s Administration
  • 11-10-62 – Assembly Tries To Make the State Self-Sustaining
  • 11-11-62 – General Assembly Meets in November, Elects Senator and Four State Officials
  • 11-12-62 – State Institute for Blind Starts Out On Donations
  • 11-13-62 – Governor Vetoes Bill To Help Camden Bank
  • 11-14-62 – 2 New Counties Created By Legislature In 1862
  • 11-15-62 – Curtis Finds Relations Growing Uncomfortable
  • 11-16-62 – Vandever Leads Force On Scouting Expedition
  • 11-17-62 – Holmes Tries to Bolster Force, Meets Trouble
  • 11-18-62 – Low Water Forces Federals to Abandon ’62 Expedition Against Arkansas Post
  • 11-19-62 – Federal Soldiers Raise Doubts About Expedition
  • 11-20-62 – Hindman Units Retreat; Reorganization Started
  • 11-21-62 – Blunt Left to Hold Area as Schofield Pulls Out
  • 11-22-62 – Burbridge Told To Stop Supplies for Schofield
  • 11-23-62 – Blunt Sends Out Scouts; Southern Guard Retreats
  • 11-24-62 – Cavalry Rests, Begins Raid on Federal Supplies
  • 11-25-62 – Federal General Blunt Moves South—Battles Rage At Cane Hill, Prairie Grove
  • 11-26-62 – Blunt Takes Over Camp, Awaits Southern March
  • 11-27-62 – Yellville Plant ‘Ruined,’ Resumes Operation Soon
  • 11-28-62 – Federals Again Attack ‘Ruined’ Saltpeter Works
  • 11-29-62 – Blunt’s Army Publishes One Paper at Cane Hill
  • 11-30-62 – Battle Of Prairie Grove Stops Work on Journal
  • 12-01-62 – Hindman Issues Orders For Discipline in Battle
  • 12-02-62 – Marmaduke Is Thrown Back at Cane Hill – – And Retreats South to Lee’s Creek 
  • 12-03-62 – Prairie Grove Reports Clouded On Organization
  • 12-04-62 – Frost Led One Division at Prairie Grove Battle
  • 12-05-62 – Blunt Headed U.S. Force at Prairie Grove Battle
  • 12-06-62 – Hindman Hopes to Fool Federal Forces by Ruse
  • 12-07-62 – Blunt Decides Harrison Not Reliable In Battle
  • 12-08-62 – Skirmishes Are Resumed; Troops Leave Cane Hill
  • 12-09-62 – Hindman’s Army Evades Blunt’s Force, Famous Battle of Prairie Grove Begins
  • 12-10-62 – Pittman Finds His Home Converted Into Hospital
  • 12-11-62 – Casualties Total 2,574 in Prairie Grove Battle
  • 12-12-62 – Hindman Strategy Wins Praise from the Enemy
  • 12-13-62 – Orders to Kill Officers Enrages Hindman Foe
  • 12-14-62 – Fayetteville Was Uneasy As Battle Force Passed
  • 12-15-62 – Church, Homes Became Hospitals After Battle
  • 12-16-62 – Hindman Foresees Defeat, Starts Retreat from Prairie Grove Toward Van Buren
  • 12-17-62 – Hindman Censures Unit Under Adams’ Command
  • 12-18-62 – Criticism of Fighting By Confederates Refuted
  • 12-19-62 – Hindman Makes Protest on Use of Indian Troops
  • 12-20-62 – Isaac Murphy Family Target Of Guerrillas
  • 12-21-62 – Wounded Left Behind As Confederates Retreat
  • 12-22-62 – Battle Of Prairie Grove: Both Sides Claimed Win
  • 12-23-62 – Hindman Flees As Blunt, Herron Attack Van Buren at Year’s End, Occupy City
  • 12-24-62 – West Shells Van Buren; One Killed, 5 Wounded
  • 12-25-62 – Van Buren Is Pillages As Union Troops Leave
  • 12-26-62 – Civilians Calm As Troops of U.S. Reach Van Buren
  • 12-27-62 – Hindman Army Destitute; Retreats from Van Buren
  • 12-28-62 – Several Factors Figure In High Desertion Rate
  • 12-29-62 – Hindman Has To Leave Wounded As He Retreats
  • 12-30-62 – Hindman’s Half-Starved Forces March Toward Little Rock as Year 1862 Ends
  • 12-31-62 – Little Rock Morale Low as Confederates Arrive

 

• File 7 – January-February 1963, Articles 1108-1166
  • 01-01-63 – Federals’ Eastern Base Is Established At Helena
  • 01-02-63 – Texans Grow Restless; Discipline Is Threatened
  • 01-03-63 – Confederates Capture Federal Transport Boat
  • 01-04-63 – Nurses Followed Army; Worked Without Pay
  • 01-05-63 – Need For Food in State Brings Northern Traders
  • 01-06-63 – Marmaduke Hits Missouri as Hindman’s Force Continues Its Retreat to Little Rock
  • 01-07-63 – Indian Territory Is Put Under Steele’s Command
  • 01-08-63 – Indians Prove Problems to Confederate Leaders
  • 01-09-63 – Phillips’ Unit Detached From Army of Frontier
  • 01-10-63 – Grant Relies On Sherman for Drive on Vicksburg
  • 01-11-63 – Order to Divide Upsets Grant’s Vicksburg Plan
  • 01-12-63 – 5,000 Await Attack at Next Rise of River
  • 01-13-63 – Federal Forces Attack Arkansas Post-Fort Hindman Falls to Mcclernand
  • 01-14-63 – Confederate Battle Loss Less Than From Measles
  • 01-15-63 – Captive Southerners Win Song Battle from Guards
  • 01-16-63 – Victorious Federals Stay Briefly In Arkansas Post
  • 01-17-63 – News Blackout at Post Causes Much Suspense
  • 01-18-63 – Water In River Too Low for Attack on Little Rock
  • 01-19-63 – Arkansas Post Victory Widely Misrepresented
  • 01-20-63 – Gorman’s Force Moves Up White River; U.S. Advance on Little Rock Abandoned
  • 01-21-63 – Eno’s Arkansas Plan Is Foiled By Curtis
  • 01-22-63 – Grant Told To Take Over McClernand’s Command
  • 01-23-63 – Grant Tells McClernand to Garrison at Helena
  • 01-24-63 – Union Begins Enlisting In Northwest Arkansas
  • 01-25-63 – Restrictions Ordered For South Sympathizers
  • 01-26-63 – Scouting Party Captures Steamboat at Van Buren
  • 01-27-63 – Controversial Conscription Exemption Acts Finally Changed So Overseers Excepted
  • 01-28-63 – Many Men Try To Evade Confederate Draft Law
  • 01-29-63 – Anti-Draft Sentiments Encourage Resistance
  • 01-30-63 – Angry Residents Scatter Groups Of Freebooters
  • 01-31-63 – General Offers Pardons to Returning Deserters
  • 02-01-63 – Military Freeing Of Slaves Nettles President Lincoln
  • 02-02-63 – Federal Deserters Led By Men from Missouri
  • 02-03-63 – Arkansas Citizens Demand and Get Improvement in Military Command
  • 02-04-63 – Galloway Changes Plan; Guerrillas Escape Trap
  • 02-05-63 – Federal Scouting Party Skirmishes With Rebels
  • 02-06-63 – Waring Leaves Missouri to March on Batesville
  • 02-07-63 – Federals Hit Batesville, Spend the Day Looting
  • 02-08-63 – Indiana Officers Figure In Home State Politics
  • 02-09-63 – Gazette Stops Publication Because Of Paper Lack
  • 02-10-63 – Hindman’s Foes Seek To Undermine Him at Richmond; His Transfer Is Refused
  • 02-11-63 – Slaying Of Outlaw Dark Is Credited To Boy, 11
  • 02-12-63 – Texas Senator-Raider Finally Caught, Hanged
  • 02-13-63 – Scout of Federals Urges Attack on Arkadelphia
  • 02-14-63 – Need Of Army Spurred Arkadelphia’s Industry
  • 02-15-63 – Draft Evaders, Civilians Battle Near Arkadelphia
  • 02-16-63 – Guerrilla Bands Refuse Confederate Army Ties
  • 02-17-63 – Reynolds Named Confederate Governor of Missouri –  Seeks Return of Price
  • 02-18-63 – Youthful John E. Murray Rises Rapidly In Service
  • 02-19-63 – Confederates Harass Federal Transports
  • 02-20-63 – Farmers Feel Effects of Occupation Armies
  • 02-21-63 – Farmers Face Problem of Harvesting Crops
  • 02-22-63 – Camden Imports Corn To Forestall Shortage
  • 02-23-63 – Speculators Swindled By Fake Cotton Cards
  • 02-24-63 – Federals Destroy Hopefield in Reprisal for Cavalry Raids in Mississippi Valley
  • 02-25-63 – First Reports Published Of Federals’ Plundering
  • 02-26-63 – Runaway Slaves Abused In Federal Army Camps
  • 02-27-63 – Federals Are Accused Of Murdering Many
  • 02-28-63 – Action Taken To Assist Families of Soldiers

 

• File 8 – March-April 1963, Articles 1167-1227
  • 03-01-63 – Spying Causes Federals to Shut Down Hospital
  • 03-02-63 – Confederate Hospital Ordered Evacuated
  • 03-03-63 – Mortality Rate At Peak After Hindman’s Stricken Troops Reach Little Rock In ‘63
  • 03-04-63 – Little Rock Gets Depot for Recaptured Slaves
  • 03-05-63 – Federals Begin Search For Southern Steamer
  • 03-06-63 – Federal Troops Remain At Helena Garrison
  • 03-07-63 – Confederates Harass Federals at Helena
  • 03-08-63 – Thompson Flees McNeil by Using Hidden Canoes
  • 03-09-63 – Black Flag Accusations Cause Flight Of Civilians
  • 03-10-63 – Arkansas Troops East Of the Mississippi Divided Between Two Battle Theaters
  • 03-11-63 – Arkansas Soldier Knows a Meal When He Sees It
  • 03-12-63 – Commanders of Federals Try To Stop Harassment
  • 03-13-63 – Trade Was Necessary With North At Times
  • 03-14-63 – Unionist Phillips Gets Conflicting Instructions
  • 03-15-63 – Smallpox Outbreak Hits Phillips’ Indian Brigade
  • 03-16-63 – Grand Jury Takes Stand Against Change Tickets
  • 03-17-63 – Majority of Confederate Regiments from Arkansas Assigned To Vicksburg
  • 03-18-63 – Phillips Rejects Pacts Made With Confederate
  • 03-19-63 – Confederate Recruiting Stepped Up In Arkansas
  • 03-20-63 – Arkansas Hero’s Death Mourned By Many
  • 03-21-63 – Marmaduke Turns Down Chance to Help Steele
  • 03-22-63 – Confederate In Texas Held Up By Shortages
  • 03-23-63 – Grant Reorganizes East Arkansas Forces
  • 03-24-63 – Trans Mississippi’s New Commander Moves Its Headquarters to Alexandria
  • 03-25-63 – Confederates Reorganize the District Of Arkansas
  • 03-26-63 – Hero of Oak Hills Sent To Texas and Demoted
  • 03-27-63 – Confederates Observe Thanksgiving Day
  • 03-28-63 – Despite Prohibition, Whiskey Is Plentiful
  • 03-29-63 – Confederates Escape Sneak Attack at Night
  • 03-30-63 – Guerrillas Terrorize Area Around Carrollton
  • 03-31-63 – Exchange Agreement Is Ignored; 4,791 Confederate Prisoners Are Sent North
  • 04-01-63 – Politicians Are Snubbed By Churchill at Prison
  • 04-02-63 – Kennard Is Convicted, Sentenced To Hard Labor
  • 04-03-63 – Confederate Swamp Fox Stayed At Pocahontas
  • 04-04-63 – Military Is Restricted On Property Seizures
  • 04-05-63 – Confederates Ambush Federals at Wittsburg
  • 04-06-63 – Schofield Transferred To End Officers’ Feud
  • 04-07-63 – Confederate Troops in Winter Quarters Recruit and Prepare For Spring Campaign
  • 04-08-63 – Home Guard Unit Men Pose Threat of Mutiny
  • 04-09-63 – Weer’s Federal Troops Menaced By Guerrillas
  • 04-10-63 – Federals Maneuver To Meet Marmaduke
  • 04-11-63 – Federal Commanders Try to Figure South’s Plan
  • 04-12-63 – Harrison Says Troops Not Ready For Action
  • 04-13-63 – Poor Equipment Checks Federals at Fort Smith
  • 04-14-63 – General Cabell Leads 900 Confederates In Unsuccessful Attack on Fayetteville
  • 04-15-63 – Wedding Dance Stopped, Federal Prisoners Taken
  • 04-16-63 – Federal Army Strength Is Surprise to Cabell
  • 04-17-63 – Confederate Casualties Cared For By Unionists
  • 04-18-63 – Fighting Under Cabell Kept Soldiers Spirited
  • 04-19-63 – Cabell Feels His Attack Aids Confederate Cause
  • 04-20-63 – Arkansas Men’s Records Found To Be Incomplete
  • 04-21-63 – Marmaduke, With Force of 5,000 Men, Mounts Raid on Southeast Missouri
  • 04-22-63 – Federal Troops Misled On Marmaduke Raid
  • 04-23-63 – Marmaduke Leadership Questioned By Several
  • 04-24-63 – Marmaduke Withdraws, Leaving His Injured
  • 04-25-63 – Patterson Fire Origins Remain a Mystery
  • 04-26-63 – The ‘Surrender’ Incident on Second Missouri Raid
  • 04-27-63 – Confederate Indicated No Combined Attack
  • 04-28-63 – Marmaduke Ends His Missouri Raid with Skirmish at Chalk Bluff May 1-2
  • 04-29-63 – Steele’s Men Shy Away From Fort Smith Duty
  • 04-30-63 – Harrison Ordered Out Of Fayetteville Area

 

• File 9 – May-June 1963, Articles 1228-1288
  • 05-01-63 – Dobbin’s Cavalry Routs Federal Scouting Party
  • 05-02-63 – Southern Sympathizers Exiled From St. Louis
  • 05-03-63 – Helena Sympathizers Taxed By Federals
  • 05-04-63 – Confederates Establish Military Court System
  • 05-05-63 – Elisha Baxter Gives Himself Up For Trial Charge Is ‘Treason Against Confederacy’
  • 05-06-63 – Reinforcements Sought For Rosecrans’ Outfit
  • 05-07-63 – Troops In Arkansas Get Set For Louisiana Duty
  • 05-08-63 – Help By Speight Sought On 2 Desperate Fronts
  • 05-09-63 – Federal Scouts Sent Toward Little Rock
  • 05-10-63 – Federal Scouts Elude Marmaduke’s Attack
  • 05-11-63 – Federals Escape Trap Under Cover Of Dark
  • 05-12-63 – Recruiting Of Colored Troop-S Begins – – First Negro Regiment Sent To Louisiana
  • 05-13-63 – Bass Visits In Richmond, Makes Report On Indians
  • 05-14-63 – River Blockade Cripples Little Rock Newspapers
  • 05-15-63 – Arkansans Use Ingenuity In Making Many Items
  • 05-16-63 – Good Crops Waste For Lack Of Workers
  • 05-17-63 – Starvation Policy Talk Is Widespread In State
  • 05-18-63 – The Church Of The Army Is Formed At Little Rock
  • 05-19-63 – ‘Capital’ Of Confederate Missouri’s Government Is At Camden – – Arkansas
  • 05-20-63 – Fort Gibson Is Occupied By Phillips’ Federals
  • 05-21-63 – Watie And Indians Raid Fort For Union Horses
  • 05-22-63 – Confederates Are Sent To Attack Supply Train
  • 05-23-63 – Confederates Fail To Stop Supply Train
  • 05-24-63 – Cloud Tries To Clear Trail For Supply Train
  • 05-25-63 – Federal Scouting Party Withstands Attack
  • 05-26-63 – Missouri’s Political Discord Forces Lincoln To Relieve Curtis Of Command
  • 05-27-63 – Tax Opinion Reversal Caused A Problem
  • 05-28-63 – Horse Racing Goes On At Lewisville Track
  • 05-29-63 – Arkansans Are Urged To Join Minute Men
  • 05-30-63 – Southern Ladies Pined For Yankee Fashions
  • 05-31-63 – South’s Conscript Law Interpreted By Courts
  • 06-01-63 – Necessity Prices Rise When Regulation Ends
  • 06-02-63 – Gen. Sterling Price Assumes Command At Jacksonport; Men Welcome ‘Old Pap’
  • 06-03-63 – Holmes Is Undecided Before Helena Attack
  • 06-04-63 – Cabell’s Mounted Troops Ordered To Fort Smith
  • 06-05-63 – Escaped Soldiers Told To Report At Little Rock
  • 06-06-63 – Brigade Starts March To Join General Taylor
  • 06-07-63 – Hindman Asserts Roane Bungled His Command
  • 06-08-63 – Smith Asks Treasury To Approve Fund Plan
  • 06-09-63 – Col. Edward Gantt’s Turnabout Surrender Implies Weakening Of The Confederacy
  • 06-10-63 – Halleck Asks Troops For Vicksburg Theater
  • 06-11-63 – Schofield Seeks Change In Missouri Department
  • 06-12-63 – Negroes’ Treatment Questioned By Federals
  • 06-13-63 – Negroes’ Activities Alarm White Civilians
  • 06-14-63 – Southern Troops Harass Federals In Mississippi
  • 06-15-63 – Two Private Steamboats Surrendered To Federals
  • 06-16-63 – Lincoln Approves Sebastian’s Reported Plan To Regain His Seat In U.S. Senate
  • 06-17-63 – Confederates Endeavor To Protect Factories
  • 06-18-63 – Woman Reportedly Fought As Confederate
  • 06-19-63 – Captured Arkansans Cause Public Stir
  • 06-20-63 – Historical Society Formed But Soon Dies
  • 06-21-63 – S. Arkansas Citizens Pay Respects To Dead
  • 06-22-63 – Towns Form Companies To Fight Bushwhackers
  • 06-23-63 – Confederate Congressional Elections Held; Three Incumbents Are Re-Elected
  • 06-24-63 – Helena Attack Favored As Diversionary Tactic
  • 06-25-63 – Holmes Had Long Hoped For Attack On Helena
  • 06-26-63 – Preparations Ordered For Attack On Helena
  • 06-27-63 – Federals Well Fortified In Engagement At Helena
  • 06-28-63 – Union Troops Prepare For Combat At Helena
  • 06-29-63 – Confederates Move Into Attack Positions
  • 06-30-63 – Federal Garrison Successfully Defends Helena Against Holmes’ Attack On July 4

 

• File 10 – July-August 1963, Articles 1289-1336
  • 07-01-63 – Injured Confederates Can’t Resume Attack
  • 07-02-63 – Confederates Report 173 Killed At Helena
  • 07-03-63 – Price ‘Wept Like Child’ At Sight Of His Troops
  • 07-04-63 – Paper Attacks Holmes For Helena Battle Plan
  • 07-05-63 – McRae Found Blameless Long After Helena Loss
  • 07-06-63 – Yankee In Guard House Becomes Hero At Curtis
  • 07-07-63 – Confederacy Reels Under Two Disasters – – Mississippi Valley Held By Federals
  • 07-08-63 – Vicksburg’s Fall Leads To Fears Of Secession
  • 07-09-63 – Civil Leaders Summoned To Conference In Texas
  • 07-10-63 – Confederate Associations Set Up To Boost Morale
  • 07-11-63 – Vicksburg’s Fall Speeds Creation Of Home Guard
  • 07-12-63 – Hindman Gets Restless Waiting For Active Duty
  • 07-13-63 – Pike ‘Retires’ To Farm To Escape ‘Imbecility’
  • 07-14-63 – Federals Win Battle Of Honey Springs—General Blunt Begins U.S. Offensive
  • 07-29-63 – Federals Feared Price Might Invade Missouri
  • 07-30-63 – Morale At All-Time Low After Helena, Vicksburg
  • 07-31-63 – Ailment Hits Holmes – Price Takes Command
  • 08-01-63 – General Price Prepares To Defend Little Rock
  • 08-02-63 – Federals Are Confused In Chain Of Command
  • 08-03-63 – Grant Doesn’t Do Much To Untangle Confusion
  • 08-04-63 – General Steele Arrives At Helena, Plans Federal Expedition Against Little Rock
  • 08-05-63 – Union Army, Navy Start Advance On Little Rock
  • 08-06-63 – Single Shot Captures Confederate Transports
  • 08-07-63 – Federal Gunboat Repels Confederate Attacks
  • 08-08-63 – Eberhart’s Successes Elate General Davidson
  • 08-09-63 – Steele Mobilizes Troops To March To Clarendon
  • 08-10-63 – Steele’s Troops Hit By Malaria Fever
  • 08-11-63 – General Smith Arrives At Little Rock—Confers With Officials On Defense Plans
  • 08-12-63 – Federals Start Advance On Capital Of Arkansas
  • 08-13-63 – Tardy Reinforcements Get Drunk At Distillery
  • 08-14-63 – DeValls Bluff Selected For Hospital By Steele
  • 08-15-63 – Fortifications Started By Price at Bayou Meto
  • 08-16-63 – Confederates Retire On Brownsville Road
  • 08-17-63 – Both Forces Draw Back After Fight on Prairie
  • 08-18-63 – Confederates and Federals Fight Battle of Reed’s Bridge – Both Claim Victory
  • 08-19-63 – Missouri Troops Sought For Little Rock Defense
  • 08-20-63 – South’s ‘Swamp Fox’ Taken at Pocahontas
  • 08-21-63 – DeValls Bluff Became Vital Transport Center
  • 08-22-63 – Federals Find Railroad in Operating Condition
  • 08-23-63 – Cat, Mouse Skirmishes Mark Retreat of Walker
  • 08-24-63 – Federals Are Ambushed On Way to Little Rock
  • 08-25-63 – Walker Slain In Duel with Marmaduke – As Federals Advance Little Rock
  • 08-26-63 – Little Rock Expedition Begins With Confusion
  • 08-27-63 – Schofield’s Commission Subject Of Controversy
  • 08-28-63 – Federals Enlist Negroes for Arkansas Campaign
  • 08-29-63 – Recruiting, Impressment of Slaves Is Attempted
  • 08-30-63 – Cabell Prepares Defense Southwest Of Fort Smith
  • 08-31-63 – Too Few Reliable Men to Protect Fort Smith

 

• File 11 – September-October 1963, 1337-1397
  • 09-01-63 – Blunt’s Federal Forces Take Fort Smith; Final Battle Fought at Backbone Mountain
  • 09-02-63 – General Cabell’s Unit Gathers After Skirmish
  • 09-03-63 – Fort Smith’s Fall Sends State Families Fleeing
  • 09-04-63 – ‘Mountain Feds’ Flock To Union Headquarters
  • 09-05-63 – McNeil Furious At Cloud for Trip to Fort Smith
  • 09-06-63 – ‘Bull Battery’ Organized For Little Rock Defense
  • 09-07-63 – Confederate Defenses Late – Poorly Planned
  • 09-08-63 – Alderman Henry Surrenders Little Rock to General Davidson as Federals Advance
  • 09-09-63 – Battle Of Little Rock Not Entirely Bloodless
  • 09-10-63 – Price Knew Little Rock Could Not Be Defended
  • 09-11-63 – Populace of Little Rock Knew City Was Doomed
  • 09-12-63 – Desertions Are Heavy With Little Rock Loss
  • 09-13-63 – Fatigued Federals Fail To Make Early Pursuit
  • 09-14-63 – Little Rock Is Occupied By Minnesota Regiment
  • 09-15-63 – Arkansas Unionists Join In Skirmish at Dardanelle; Confederates Are Routed
  • 09-16-63 – Price Is Criticized For Loss of Little Rock
  • 09-17-63 – General Holmes Orders Release Of Marmaduke
  • 09-18-63 – Confederate Plan Vague As Holmes Takes Over
  • 09-19-63 – Steele Deploys Troops to Benton, Pine Bluff
  • 09-20-63 – Federals Go To Osceola to Look For Guerrillas
  • 09-21-63 – Arkansas Losses Heavy in Chickamauga Battle
  • 09-22-63 – Federal Army of Occupation Takes Over Vacant Homes and Offices in Little Rock
  • 09-23-63 – Supporter of Union Publishes Paper
  • 09-24-63 – Second Federal Paper Begun At Little Rock
  • 09-25-63 – New Era Was Published In a Confiscated Office
  • 09-26-63 –Federal Telegraph Lines Were Guerrilla Targets
  • 09-27-63 – Federals Are Alarmed At Guerrilla Activities
  • 09-28-63 – Leeper Meets Guerrillas, Heads Back To Missouri
  • 09-29-63 – Washington, Hempstead County, Is CSA ‘Capital’ For Arkansas, Missouri
  • 09-30-63 – Rumors of Attack Keep Camden in Panic State
  • 10-01-63 – Little Rock’s Surrender Stops Steele’s Buildup
  • 10-02-63 – Capture Of Little Rock Left Steele at A Loss
  • 10-03-63 – Rebels Burn Fayetteville to Foil Federal Troops
  • 10-04-63 – Fayetteville Not Pleased With Arrival of Federals
  • 10-05-63 – Fayetteville Is Occupied; Trouble Erupts To North
  • 10-06-63 – CSA Demonstration before Fayetteville Forms Diversion to Cover Shelby’s Raid
  • 10-07-63 – Slaves’ Freedom Led To Problems in State
  • 10-08-63 – Developing a Plan For Freed Slaves
  • 10-09-63 – Shelby’s Raids Cause Uproar in Fort Smith
  • 10-10-63 – Blunt’s Loss Is 79 Men in Massacre by Quantrill
  • 10-11-63 – Rumor of Blunt’s Death Was Spread By Quantrill
  • 10-12-63 – Dobbin’s Cavalry Routed In Early Morning Attack
  • 10-13-63 – Colonel Shelby’s Picked Force Leaves For Daring Raid into Southwest Missouri
  • 10-14-63 – State’s Forces Revived After Fall of Little Rock
  • 10-15-63 – Flanagan Okays Transfer of Arkansas’s Troops
  • 10-16-63 – Volunteers Eager to Join For ‘Home Guard’ Duty
  • 10-17-63 – State Troops Recruited For Army of Occupation
  • 10-18-63 – Unionist Civilians Ask Aid to Fight Guerrillas
  • 10-19-63 – Refugee Influx Bolsters Schools in Hope Area
  • 10-20-63 – Shelby’s Brigade Returns To Capital—Reports Damage To Missouri Federals
  • 10-21-63 – Unrest Among Choctaws Reported In Fall Of 1863
  • 10-22-63 – Department Of Indians Removed From State
  • 10-23-63 – General Looks at Ships, Sees Illicit Cotton Trade
  • 10-24-63 – Ordnance Works Moved Before Fall of Little Rock
  • 10-25-63 – Nurse Tells Of Conditions at Little Rock Hospitals
  • 10-26-63 – Guerrillas Lead Federals on Chase Along the River
  • 10-27-63 – Freed Slaves Play Major Role in Defense Against Confederate Attack on Pine Bluff
  • 10-28-63 – Number Of Casualties at Pine Bluff Vague
  • 10-29-63 – Federal Pursuit Fails to Catch Confederates
  • 10-30-63 – Arkadelphia Residents Given Gentle Treatment
  • 10-31-63 – Gen. Kirby Smith Asks For Appointive Powers

 

• File 12 – November-December 1963, Articles 1398-1458
  • 11-01-63 – Marauders Intimidate Civilians in the West
  • 11-02-63 – General Cooper Moves His Troops Westward
  • 11-03-63 – McNeil Assumes Command of Frontier—General Blunt Strikes Out For Fort Smith
  • 11-04-63 – Gen. McNeil Eliminates Fort Smith Irregularities
  • 11-05-63 – Price Tries To Persuade Quantrill to Join Him
  • 11-06-63 – Confederate Chiefs Plan an Attack on Little Rock
  • 11-07-63 – Federal General Builds Stronger Defense Lines
  • 11-08-63 – Colonel Harrison Chases Confederates In North
  • 11-09-63 – Confederates Attacked By Federals in North
  • 11-10-63 – Differences Between Holmes and Price Create Conflicts in Arkansas District
  • 11-11-63 – Missouri General Sends Scouts Into Arkansas
  • 11-12-63 – Mount Ida Fight Reports Seem To Be Exaggerated
  • 11-13-63 – Colonel Caldwell Routs Rebel Band At Mount Ida
  • 11-14-63 – Mount Ida Expedition Was Recruiting Mission
  • 11-15-63 – Indians Appear Ready To Deal with Union
  • 11-16-63 – Cutting Telegraph Line Angers Federal General
  • 11-17-63 – Steps Taken To Re-Establish Arkansas’s Civil Government Under Federal Authority
  • 11-18-63 – Two Versions Are Known Of Gettysburg Address
  • 11-19-63 – 32d Iowa Regiment Attacked Near Benton
  • 11-20-63 – The Confederate Soldiers Weren’t Always Welcome
  • 11-21-63 – Colonel Black Harassed In Jacksonport Move
  • 11-22-63 – Letters Describe Stories of Plunder and Killing
  • 11-23-63 – Carmichael’s Force Seeks Guerrilla Band
  • 11-24-63 – Newspapers, Union Clubs Play Vital Role in Restoring Civil Government to State
  • 11-25-63 – Federal General’s Policy of Kindness Criticized
  • 11-26-63 – General McRae Ordered To Northeast to Recruit
  • 11-27-63 – No Federal Units Oppose Recruiting In Northeast
  • 11-28-63 – Little Rock To Memphis Railway a Strategic Line
  • 11-29-63 – Federals Got a Warning of Attack in Missouri
  • 11-30-63 – Reinforcements Arrive To Aid Missouri Town
  • 12-01-63 – Delegates from Sebastian, Crawford, 22 Other Counties Selected Convention
  • 12-02-63 – Two Units from Missouri Meet, Fight Near Benton
  • 12-03-63 – Lost Wallet Triggers Skirmish With Guerrillas
  • 12-04-63 – Federal Soldier Prints Pine Bluff Newspaper
  • 12-05-63 – Confederate Tries To Get Exchange of Civilians
  • 12-06-63 – Fort Smith Hears Rumors of Confederate Attack
  • 12-07-63 – Cannons Salute General On First Anniversary
  • 12-08-63 – 48 Delegates Are Seated Before State’s Constitutional Convention Is Adjourned
  • 12-09-63 – Unconditional Union Meet Held at Benton
  • 12-10-63 – Federals Thought Enemy Camped Near Princeton
  • 12-11-63 – Merreill’s Cavalry Attacks Enemy Near Princeton
  • 12-12-63 – Senator Mitchell Returns On Highly Secret Task
  • 12-13-63 – Units from Mississippi Fight Arkansas Skirmish
  • 12-14-63 – Waldron Unit Attacks Party Of Confederates
  • 12-15-63 – Little Rock Starts Civil Government Plan, Unaware Of Fort Smith Union Proposals
  • 12-16-63 – Confederates Settle Into a Winter Camp
  • 12-17-63 – Doctor Finds Black Dye To Aid Arkansas Women
  • 12-18-63 – Joining the Federal Army Was Proof of Loyalty
  • 12-19-63 – Smith Calls Up Brigade; Wants Little Publicity
  • 12-20-63 – Marmaduke Alters Plans For Attacking Federals
  • 12-21-63 – Radicals at Little Rock Establish Own Paper
  • 12-22-63 – Lincoln’s Reconstruction Proclamation Offers Full Pardon for Most Southerners
  • 12-23-63 – Troops Fight Skirmishes During Christmas Time
  • 12-24-63 – War Damages the Image of the ‘City Of Flowers’
  • 12-25-63 – Bit of Christmas Fun Almost Ends In Tragedy
  • 12-26-63 – Missouri Federal Cavalry Heads Into Arkansas
  • 12-27-63 – Business in Little Rock for Federals Flourished
  • 12-28-63 – A Confederate Major Is Killed In Skirmish
  • 12-29-63 – Maxey Replaces Steele as Commander of Unpopular Post in Indian Territory
  • 12-30-63 – Attack On ‘Freebooters’ Proved To Be Difficult
  • 12-31-63 – Federals at Batesville Are Given Three Tasks

  End of Box 2

 

Box 3

• File 1 – January-February 1964, Articles 1459-1518
  • 01-01-64 – Record Low Temperature Hits State Jan. 1, 1864
  • 01-02-64 – Goodwill Banquet Failed Because Of Cold Weather
  • 01-03-64 – Confederate Encourages Depressed Arkansans
  • 01-04-64 – Freedom Convention Is Held By Loyalists
  • 01-05-64 – David O. Dodd Found Guilty Of Espionage Against U.S. – His Sentence Is Death
  • 01-06-64 – Many of Dodd’s Friends Had Moved From Area
  • 01-07-64 – General Refused To See Group Pleading For Dodd
  • 01-08-64 – Crowd Gathered To See Hanging of David Dodd
  • 01-09-64 – Army Refuses To Allow Ceremony at Dodd Burial
  • 01-10-64 – A Controversy Remains Concerning Dodd’s Guilt
  • 01-11-64 – The Prosecution Failed To Prove Dodd Guilty
  • 01-12-64– ’64 Constitutional Convention Meets; Provides For Immediate Emancipation
  • 01-13-64 – Refugees at Fort Smith Become Serious Problem
  • 01-14-64 – Royston Misses Opening of Confederate Congress
  • 01-15-64 – Confederate Congress Passes Important Laws
  • 01-16-64 – Commander at Batesville Republishes Regulations
  • 01-17-64 – Steele, Davidson Fight Brought Before Public
  • 01-18-64 – Commander at Pine Bluff Attacks Branchville
  • 01-19-64 – Department Of Missouri Is Reorganized; General Rosecrans Takes Over Command
  • 01-20-64 – General Sanborn Sends Three Units to North
  • 01-21-64 – Federals Going North, Fight Two Skirmishes
  • 01-22-64 – Federals Leave Waldron, Fight with ‘Guerrillas’
  • 01-23-64 – Yonley Starts Printing Unconditional Union
  • 01-24-64 – The 1864 Currency Act Brought Dissatisfaction
  • 01-25-64 – Confederate Currency Depreciated By Act
  • 01-26-64 – Livingston Resumes His Action Against McRae’s, Freeman’s Confederate Units
  • 01-27-64 – Colonel Baumer Sets Out To Search for Rebels
  • 01-28-64 – Federals at Batesville Hunt For McRae Again
  • 01-29-64 – Union Men Divided, Cause Friction at Fort
  • 01-30-64 – Colonel Comes To Start Negro Units for Union
  • 01-31-64 – 2 Hospitals Established By the Federal Military
  • 02-01-64 – General Holland Comes To Command New Force
  • 02-02-64 – Lincoln Leaves Decision On Election to General Steele; March 14 Selected
  • 02-03-64 – General Thayer Assumes Command of Frontier
  • 02-04-64 – A Steamboat, Mill Boy, Sinks In White River
  • 02-05-64 – A 30-Day Furlough Speeds Re-Enlistments
  • 02-06-64 – Federal Scouting Party Travels By River Boat
  • 02-07-64 – People of Arkansas Seek Rail Extension
  • 02-08-64 – Fort Smith Is Isolated During the Winter Of ‘64
  • 02-09-64 – Davidson Is Relieved Of Command After Difficulty with Steele Over Occupation
  • 02-10-64 – A Federal Detachment Escapes Annihilation
  • 02-11-64 – Fort Smith Welcomes General Curtis Royally
  • 02-12-64 – Federal Scouts Capture 10 Rebel Prisoners
  • 02-13-64 – Confederates in North Elude Federal Forces
  • 02-14-64 – Captain Hughes Sets Out On Scouting Expedition
  • 02-15-64 – Mayor of Washington Flees To Join Federals
  • 02-16-64 – Johnson Reaches Washington, Begins His Campaign to Be Seated In Congress
  • 02-17-64 – Dr. Penwell’s Refugees Arrive At Fort Smith
  • 02-18-64 – Amnesty Oath by Polk Called Lie at Camden
  • 02-19-64 – Confederates Capture 35 Wagons and 100 Men
  • 02-20-64 – Federals Leave Waldron and Burn the Town
  • 02-21-64 – Controversy Develops Over Two State Posts
  • 02-22-64 – Confederates Attempt To Censor Mail Flow
  • 02-23-64 – Treasury Agents Assigned To Arkansas to Lease Property, Employ Freedmen
  • 02-24-64 – Soldiers from Arkansas Sent After Guerrillas
  • 02-25-64 – Guerrillas Steal Money, Lose It And Get It Back
  • 02-26-64 – Fort Smith Newspaper Backs Thayer in Dispute
  • 02-27-64 – Federals Advertise To Sell 2 Newspapers
  • 02-28-64 – Music Was Important To Life of Communities
  • 02-29-64 – Little Rock Authorities Put Curfew on Saloons

 

• File 2 – March-April 1964, Articles 1519-1579
  • 03-01-64 – Woodruff’s ‘Loyalty Oath’ Letter Leads To His ‘Banishment’; Property Confiscated
  • 03-02-64 – General Thayer Tries To Curtail Pillaging
  • 03-03-64 – Probe of Depredations Is Held At Fort Smith
  • 03-04-64 – Confederate Newspaper Re-Appears At Ouachita
  • 03-05-64 – Confiscation of Press Aided Fort Smith Paper
  • 03-06-64 – Governor of Missouri Seeks Currency Reform
  • 03-07-64 – Washington Citizens Talk Defense at Meet
  • 03-08-64 – Holmes Leaves Confederate Command of Arkansas; General Price Takes Over
  • 03-09-64 – Ozark People Welcome Troops From Fort Smith
  • 03-10-64 – Scott County ‘Borderline’ County for Unionists
  • 03-11-64 – Federals Get Furloughs on Trip to Batesville
  • 03-12-64 – Colonel Orders People to List Their Forage
  • 03-13-64 – Federals at Batesville Search For Guerrillas
  • 03-14-64 – Federals at Little Rock Prepare For Election
  • 03-15-64 – First Election Under Federal Authority Held; Officials, Congressmen Chosen
  • 03-16-64 – Paper Backs Radicals in Sebastian County
  • 03-17-64 – Lieutenant’s Campaign Makes Election Lively
  • 03-18-64 – Two Men Are Hanged At State Penitentiary
  • 03-19-64 – Totals In ’64 Election Weren’t Made Public
  • 03-20-64 – Two Prairie County Towns Held Elections
  • 03-21-64 – Union Club’s Dispute with Colonel Reported
  • 03-22-64 – Federal Offensive Under General Steele Is Disastrous To Union Cause in West
  • 03-23-64 – Confederate Army Not In Shape to Fight
  • 03-24-64 – Confederate General Hopes to Get Support
  • 03-25-64 – Reports Say Rebels Fortify Monticello
  • 03-26-64 – Federal Force Reaches Mount Elba Vicinity
  • 03-27-64 – Confederates Attack Mount Elba Position
  • 03-28-64 – Colonel Clayton Sends Force To Monticello
  • 03-29-64 – Steele Resumes His March to the South After Halt at Arkadelphia for Two Days
  • 03-30-64 – General Nathan Kimball Issues Civilian Policy
  • 03-31-64 – 3,000 Federal Troops Assigned To Little Rock
  • 04-01-64 – Federal Cautiousness Got Men to Augusta
  • 04-02-64 – Federal Army Camps At Cornelius’ Place
  • 04-03-64 – Engineer Says River a Serious Obstacle
  • 04-04-64 – Bands of Confederates Resist Expedition
  • 04-05-64 – Skirmishes Are Fought On Prairie De Ann and At Moscow As Steele Moves South
  • 04-06-64 – Confederates Are Fooled On Price’s Route South
  • 04-07-64 – Washington Afraid Of Advance by Steele
  • 04-08-64 – Federal Scouts Grabbed, Trick Captors, Escape
  • 04-09-64 – Major John Rabb’s Force Goes After Guerrillas
  • 04-10-64 – Guerrilla-Hunting Force Kills Albert Pike’s Son
  • 04-11-64 – Confederates Harass Federals at Roseville
  • 04-12-64 – Steele Reaches Camden But Is Bottled Up As Confederates Control All Approaches
  • 04-13-64 – Federal Unit Captures Steamboat Full Of Corn
  • 04-14-64 – General Finds Little Pro-Federal Sentiment 
  • 04-15-64 – Camden Negroes Suffer After Joining Federals
  • 04-16-64 – Fate Of Bank’s Force Worries General Steele
  • 04-17-64 – Severe Food Shortage Threatens Steele’s Army
  • 04-18-64 – Enlisted Men Unaware Of Plight at Camden
  • 04-19-64 – General Steele’s Army Gets First Taste of Disaster in The Battle of Poison Spring
  • 04-20-64 – Confederate Unit Nets 198 Wagons, 4 Cannons
  • 04-21-64 – Reports Say Negroes Mistreated By Victors
  • 04-22-64 – Confederate Generals Argue About Who Won
  • 04-23-64 – Wagons Arrive Safely With Food in Camden
  • 04-24-64 – Confederates Feign an Attack on Camden
  • 04-25-64 – Steele Finally Decides To Pull Out Of Camden
  • 04-26-64 – Federals Meet Second Disaster During Camden Expedition – At Marks’ Mill
  • 04-27-64 – Federals on Furlough Attacked By Rebels
  • 04-28-64 – Force from Pine Bluff Goes To Help Train
  • 04-29-64 – General Steele Decides To Abandon Camden
  • 04-30-64 – Steele’s Army Plans To Sneak Out Of Town

 

• File 3 – May-June 1964, Articles 1580-1640
  • 05-01-64 – Steele’s Army Leaves Camden During Night
  • 05-02-64 – Federal Occupation Caused Much Damage
  • 05-03-64 – Steele’s Forces Reach Jenkins’ Ferry; Casualties Are Heavy In Ensuing Battle
  • 05-04-64 – Weakened Train Mules Cause Federals Trouble
  • 05-05-64 – Steele’s Army Leaves Wounded Men Behind
  • 05-06-64 – Steele’s Army Hurries To Get To Little Rock
  • 05-07-64 – Many Bodies Robbed After Jenkins’ Ferry
  • 05-08-64 – Units of Confederates Go To Other Positions
  • 05-09-64 – Principal Gazette Owner Takes Oath of Amnesty
  • 05-10-64 – Steele Returns; Legislature Tackles Job of Electing Two United States Senators
  • 05-11-64 – Editor of Newspaper Backs Stand Of Allis
  • 05-12-64 – Murphy Is Inaugurated as State’s Governor
  • 05-13-64 – Revenue Most Pressing Problem of Legislature
  • 05-14-64 – Freedom of Negroes Requires New Statutes
  • 05-15-64 – Legislature Authorizes New Seal for State
  • 05-16-64 – Absence of Records Hinders the Government
  • 05-17-64 – Shelby Is Ordered To White River Valley to Disrupt Navigation and Rail Traffic
  • 05-18-64 – General Shelby Faces Organization Troubles
  • 05-19-64 – Shelby Starts Effort with Recruiting Move
  • 05-20-64 – Shelby’s Efforts Hurt By Independent Units
  • 05-21-64 – Lack of Transports Hurts Federal Force
  • 05-22-64 – Supporters of Union Afraid To Remain
  • 05-23-64 – General Steele Honored At Banquet at Little Rock
  • 05-24-64 – Marmaduke Moves on Mississippi River – Greene’s Brigade Harasses Transports
  • 05-25-64 – Federals at Fort Smith Hurry To Finish Fort
  • 05-26-64 – Worry Over Smallpox Prompts Cleanup at LR
  • 05-27-64 – Union Refugees Cause Problem at Little Rock
  • 05-28-64 – Relief Society Formed To Give Refugees Aid
  • 05-29-64 – Emancipated Slaves Burden to the Military
  • 05-30-64 – Negroes Were In School for First Time In 1864
  • 05-31-64 – U.S. Transport Vessels Reach Fort Smith As Arkansas River Becomes Navigable
  • 06-01-64 – Confederate General Takes Half of Cotton
  • 06-02-64 – Government of State Works Far Below Par
  • 06-03-64 – Editor Seeks Meet of State Legislature
  • 06-04-64 – High Court Resumes Its Summer Sessions
  • 06-05-64 – Other Courts Start To Resume Operations
  • 06-06-64 – Race Course Resumes Operations at Little Rock
  • 06-07-64 – Battle of Lake Chicot Is Joined As U.S. Seeks to Dislodge Marmaduke’s Forces
  • 06-08-64 – General Sickles Arrives On a ‘Political’ Visit
  • 06-09-64 – General Sickles Reviews Troops, Makes Speech
  • 06-10-64 – Federal Unit Disbanded, Investigation Started
  • 06-11-64 – Railroad Line Target of Guerrilla Raids
  • 06-12-64 – Regular Mail Service Resumed In Arkansas
  • 06-13-64 – Guerrillas Repeatedly Cut Telegraph Line
  • 06-14-64 – Watie’s CSA Indian Brigade Captures Steamboat  J.R. Williams Near Fort Smith
  • 06-15-64 – Colonel Manter’s Death Announced by General
  • 06-16-64 – Steele Tries To Get More Cavalry Horses
  • 06-17-64 – Tom Steele’s Guerrillas Raid Near Little Rock
  • 06-18-64 – Petty Thefts in LR Rise Under Federals
  • 06-19-64 – Theater at Little Rock Ends Season On July 4
  • 06-20-64 – Scouting Parties Fail To Meet Each Other
  • 06-21-64 – General Shelby Opens Operations Against Federal Shipping On White River June 24
  • 06-22-64 – Shelby Takes Possession of Roads into Clarendon
  • 06-23-64 – All-Out Effort Made To Surprise Gunboat
  • 06-24-64 – Guerrilla Band Captures Herd of 240 U.S. Mules
  • 06-25-64 – Masons in Arkansas Mark St. John’s Day
  • 06-26-64 – Davidson’s Assignment Causes Steele to Worry
  • 06-27-64 – Word Reaches Little Rock Davidson Isn’t Coming
  • 06-28-64 – General Carr Takes Command of Force Against Shelby’s White River Blockade
  • 06-29-64 – Major Rutherford Taken By Federal Detachment
  • 06-30-64 – 43 Wounded Prisoners Are Taken To Camden

 

• File 4 – July-August 1964, Articles 1641-1688
  • 07-01-64 – Texan Comes To Check on Soldiers’ Treatment
  • 07-02-64 – Judge Brown Appointed To Treasury Position
  • 07-03-64 – July Fourth Celebrations Not Elaborate As Usual
  • 07-04-64 – Fort Smith Celebrates Fourth Like Old Days
  • 07-05-64 – State’s Delegation Joins in Convention at Baltimore; Lincoln, Johnson Nominated
  • 07-06-64 – Third Arkansas Cavalry Returns To Lewisburg
  • 07-07-64 – ‘Abandon the Interior; General Buford Says
  • 07-08-64 – Arms And Ammunition Smuggled Across River
  • 07-09-64 – General Samuel A. Rice Dies At Iowa Home
  • 07-10-64 – Newspapers Flourish Despite Many Troubles
  • 07-11-64 – Second State Congress Opens First ’64 Session
  • 07-12-64 – Congress Adjourns On July 4, 1864 – Arkansas Delegation Is Still Not Seated
  • 07-13-64 – Congress Disappoints Radical Unionists
  • 07-14-64 – Conservative Unionists Are Pleased At Action
  • 07-15-64 – Challenge Accepted At Bayou Des Arc
  • 07-16-64 – Major McDaniel Sent To Strike at Railroad
  • 07-17-64 – Major Bennett’s Escort Leaves For Caddo Gap
  • 07-18-64 – Bennett Party Ambushed By Band of Guerrillas
  • 07-19-64 – General Canby Sends U.S. Expedition Up White River to Aid Steele’s Forces
  • 07-20-64 – Military Authorities Start War On Canines
  • 07-21-64 – Most Railroad Damage Is Done By Guerrillas
  • 07-22-64 – Army Officer Continues Handling Court Cases
  • 07-23-64 – Pulaski County Court Resumes Its Duties
  • 07-24-64 – Pine Bluff Garrison Considered Important
  • 07-25-64 – Private Gets Medal for Killing Doctor Holt
  • 07-26-64 – Confederate Cavalry Force Attacks Post Near Fort Smith; Federal Unit Captured
  • 07-27-64 – Proclamation Issued For a General Election
  • 07-28-64 – Governor Flanagin Calls General Assembly Meet
  • 07-29-64 – Firing Squad Execute Four Men at Fort Smith
  • 07-30-64 – Confederate Force Attacks Near Fort Smith
  • 07-31-64 – Confederates Lose Duel with Artillery
  • 08-01-64 – Captain Gunter Remains To Annoy the Federals
  • 08-02-64 – Col. Dobbin Raids Leased Plantations Below Helena; Skirmishes With Federals
  • 08-03-64 – Negro Raid Precedes Attack on Plantations
  • 08-04-64 – Paymaster Narrates Visit to Little Rock
  • 08-05-64 – Troops Drink Too Much, Generals Close Saloons
  • 08-06-64 – Confederates Ambush Detachments of 40 Men
  • 08-07-64 – Union Sympathizers Leave State in Droves
  • 08-08-64 – 1,500 Union Civilians Seek Refuge in North
  • 08-09-64 – Confederate Artillery and Cavalry Force Hits Steamboat ‘Empress’ On Mississippi
  • 08-10-64 – Relief Committee Tells Of Its Work in LR
  • 08-11-64 – Relief Committee Starts With $1,000 Fund
  • 08-12-64 – Facilities for Relief Are Put In Good Order
  • 08-13-64 – Chaplains and Doctors Help With Relief Work
  • 08-14-64 – Fayetteville Garrison Busy With Guerrillas
  • 08-15-64 – Doctor Tries To Avenge Murder of His Stepson
  • 08-30-64 – Shelby’s Cavalry Hits U.S. Hay Stations On Grand Prairie, Claims 577 Prisoners
  • 08-31-64 – Cavalry Expedition Pursues General Shelby

 

• File 5 – September-October 1964, Articles 1689-1749
  • 09-01-64 – Confederate Force Repulsed At Tannery
  • 09-02-64 – Federal Scouts Sent To Check Foe At Benton
  • 09-03-64 – Shelby And Adams Fight Over Who Is In Charge
  • 09-04-64 – Confederate Courts Resume Operations
  • 09-05-64 – General Price Begins His Raid In Missouri
  • 09-06-64 – Price Assembles Forces For Last Major Confederate Attack North To Missouri
  • 09-07-64 – General Smith Stations Force At Monticello
  • 09-08-64 – Confederate Divisions Inspected By General
  • 09-09-64 – Federal Scouting Party Attacks Force’s Pickets
  • 09-10-64 – State Militia Begins Drilling At Two Cities
  • 09-11-64 – State’s Private Schools Open For Year’s Work
  • 09-12-64 – Warehouses Adequate For Army In Little Rock
  • 09-13-64 – General Assembly Meets At Washington In An Unusual ‘Extraordinary Session’
  • 09-14-64 – Worthington Foils Wagon Train Raid
  • 09-15-64 – Confederate Prison Left Much To Desire
  • 09-16-64 – Camp Ford Escapes Occurred Frequently
  • 09-17-64 – Major And Lieutenant Flee, Are Recaptured
  • 09-18-64 – Paper Again Condemns A Conciliatory Policy
  • 09-19-64 – Amnesty Oath Troubles Editor Of Newspaper
  • 09-20-64 – Arkansas’s Confederate Special Session Meets September 22 – Lacks Legal Quorum
  • 09-21-64 – Washington Facilities For Government Limited
  • 09-22-64 – Federal Force Leaves Memphis For Little Rock
  • 09-23-64 – A Confederate Spy Hanged At Pine Bluff
  • 09-24-64 – State Makes Effort To Collect Real Taxes
  • 09-25-64 – Union Soldiers Form Church At Fort Smith
  • 09-26-64 – Federal Forage Train Attacked By Choctaws
  • 09-27-64 – Confederate General Assembly Approves 24 Acts, 10 Resolutions At Washington
  • 09-28-64 – Confederates Block Federals At Clarksville
  • 09-29-64 – Federal Force Of 400 Needed For Escort Duty
  • 09-30-64 – Two Flee, One Caught After Escape Attempt
  • 10-01-64 – Christian Commission Works Among Federals
  • 10-02-64 – By Late 1864, Criticism Of General Was Bitter
  • 10-03-64 – Restrictions On Cotton Caused Much Criticism
  • 10-04-64 – Confederate Arkansas Holds Its General Election On October 3; Vacancies Filled
  • 10-05-64 – Magruder Concentrates Force Near Monticello
  • 10-06-64 – General Clayton Spends An Uneasy Two Weeks
  • 10-07-64 – Federal Scouts Report Skirmishes With Enemy
  • 10-08-64 – Federal Officials In State Also Set General Election
  • 10-09-64 – Union Refugee In Illinois Tells Of His Experiences
  • 10-10-64 – Engelmann Takes Over Command At Little Rock
  • 10-11-64 – Federal Officials Establish New Trade Regulations In Arkansas In October, 1864
  • 10-12-64 – Merchants Try To Soften Treasury Disposal Order
  • 10-13-64 – Suspended Merchants Attack Others’ Loyalty
  • 10-14-64 – Few LR Businessmen Take Part In Protests
  • 10-15-64 – Foes Make It Difficult For Federal Civilians
  • 10-16-64 – Confederate Colonel Scouts For Recruits
  • 10-17-64 – Dixie Leaning Obvious In Paper’s Dispatches
  • 10-18-64 – General Price Enters Missouri Confident Of Success; Rosecrans Marshals Forces
  • 10-19-64 – Pike House Plundered, Letter Writer Reports
  • 10-20-64 – Letter Writer, Editor Differ On Albert Pike
  • 10-21-64 – Enemy Attacks Vessel Carrying Negro Unit
  • 10-22-64 – Federals Win Skirmish Through Enemy’s Error
  • 10-23-64 – Pro-Union Independents Capture 35-Wagon Train
  • 10-24-64 – Illiterate Officer Is Hero Of Dardanelle Encounter
  • 10-25-64 – Price’s Force Keeps Fayetteville Garrison Busy—Leaving His Retreat Route Open
  • 10-26-64 – Doctor Writes History Of Arkansas Regiment
  • 10-27-64 – Fort Smith Journalist ‘Joins’ Kansas Militia
  • 10-28-64 – Aide Tries Futilely To Overtake General
  • 10-29-64 – Rains Leads His Troops To Southwest Arkansas
  • 10-30-64 – Recipient Not On Hand To Get Medal Of Honor
  • 10-31-64 – Little Rock Has Shows Even As The War Rages

 

• File 6 – November-December 1964, Articles 1750-1810
  • 11-01-64 – Storms – – Both Man-Made and Natural – Hit Fayetteville in Early  November 1864
  • 11-02-64 – Kansas Unit’s Conduct Results In Dismissals
  • 11-03-64 – Blunt Welcomed Warmly On Visit to Fort Smith
  • 11-04-64 – Confederates Suffer On Retreat to Texas
  • 11-05-64 – Radical Paper Suspends Publication 5 Months
  • 11-06-64 – Outdated Information Causes Futile Chase
  • 11-07-64 – Former Secessionist Chosen Circuit Judge
  • 11-08-64 – Lincoln Overwhelms McClellan and Wins New Term; Issue Is ‘Union or Disunion’
  • 11-09-64 – Discrepancies Are Found In Accounts of Skirmish
  • 11-10-64 – U.S. General Shot by Guerrilla Sniper
  • 11-11-64 – Canby’s Order Curtails Private Use of Railroad
  • 11-12-64 – New Policy on Stamps Last Only One Week
  • 11-13-64 – Paper Claims Hindman Back on Arkansas Soil
  • 11-14-64 – Duvall’s Bluff General Reports to President
  • 11-15-64 – Assembly Meets Under U.S. Authority; Difficulties Arise In Obtaining A Quorum
  • 11-16-64 – Capitol, Furniture Give Trouble to Legislature
  • 11-17-64 – State’s Blind School Closed At Arkadelphia
  • 11-18-64 – U.S. Soldier Describes Welcome at Little Rock
  • 11-19-64 – Some Disorganization Follows Missouri Raid
  • 11-20-64 – Fight Renewed To Get State Back In Union
  • 11-21-64 – Talk Of Arming Negroes Followed By Complaint
  • 11-22-64 – Of Cleburne, Arkansas’s Second Ranking General, Dies at Battle, Franklin, Tenn.
  • 11-23-64 – Destructive Fire Hits Block Near Riverfront
  • 11-24-64 – Route to DeValls Bluff Described In Newspaper
  • 11-25-64 – Speculators in Cotton Plague U.S. Generals
  • 11-26-64 – Memphis Residents Held In Cotton-Purchase Row
  • 11-27-64 – Sacks Of Oats Protect U.S. Steamer’s Guard
  • 11-28-64 – Slaying Of Prisoner Causes Investigation
  • 11-29-64 – General Steele Is Relieved Of Command of Arkansas – Reynolds Assumes Post
  • 11-30-64 – Benefits Get Clothing for Confederate Troops
  • 12-01-64 – Secretary to Lincoln Named U.S. Marshal
  • 12-02-64 – General Smith Orders Reservists Sent Home
  • 12-03-64 – Instructions Detailed On Duties of Reserve
  • 12-04-64 – Southern General Urges Continued Resistance
  • 12-05-64 – Magruder Outlines Ways to Assist Confederacy
  • 12-06-64 – General Assembly Passes Two New Acts Over the Veto of Governor Isaac Murphy
  • 12-07-64 – Lincoln Takes Comfort from Election Figures
  • 12-08-64 – Lincoln Rejects Talk of Negotiated Peace
  • 12-09-64 – U.S. General Rescinds Women’s Death Penalties
  • 12-10-64 – Confederates Change Cotton Trade Policy
  • 12-11-64 – Regulations Laid Down On Impressing Slaves
  • 12-12-64 – Union Editor Advocates Brazil for Southerners
  • 12-13-64 – General Assembly Names Snow to Senate – Question of His Eligibility Is Raised
  • 12-14-64 – 1,000 Attend Opening of Varieties Theater
  • 12-15-64 – U.S. Detachment Gets Prisoners and Horses
  • 12-16-64 – Thanksgiving Delayed In Trans-Mississippi
  • 12-17-64 – Confederate Money Hits New Low Mark in Value
  • 12-18-64 – Camden Judge Directs Exchange Of Currency
  • 12-19-64 – Return To Union Topic Of New Rumors In State
  • 12-20-64 – General Steele Makes Farewell Speech; Little Rock Pays Homage To His Service
  • 12-21-64 – Forts In State Visited By Inspector-General
  • 12-22-64 – Defenses At Capital Described In Report
  • 12-23-64 – Gillmore Files Report On White River Forts
  • 12-24-64 – Federal Scouts Check Reports Of Arm Cache
  • 12-25-64 – Historic Christ Church Reopens On Christmas
  • 12-26-64 – Bills To Change Seats Of Three Counties Fail
  • 12-27-64 – Canby Plans Evacuation Of Fort Smith; General Grant Later Revokes The Order
  • 12-28-64 – Editor Describes Visit To Military Prison
  • 12-29-64 – Editor Gives Report On Visit To Hospital
  • 12-30-64 – Relief Group Plagued By Scant Collections
  • 12-31-64 – Series Of Fires Alarm Little Rock Residents

 

• File 7 – January-February 1965, Articles 1811-1869
  • 01-01-65 – Letter Writer Suggests Joining France, Mexico
  • 01-02-65 – Press Reaction Varies On Rumors Peace Near
  • 01-03-65 – Reorganization Of The Confederate Army In Arkansas Is Initiated In December, ‘64
  • 01-04-65 – Defeated Told Assets Of Brazil And Sonora
  • 01-05-65 – Editor Predicts Mexico To Attract Southerners
  • 01-06-65 – Tardy Complaint Filed On Cotton Speculation
  • 01-07-65 – Governor Offers Plan For Trade With Mexico
  • 01-08-65 – Lawyers’ Exclusion Act Basis For Garland Fame
  • 01-09-65 – Federal Scouting Party Encounters Guerrillas
  • 01-10-65 – Fort Smith Gets Word That Evacuation Order Is Revoked; Confirmation Delayed
  • 01-11-65 – Confederate Reports On U.S. Evacuation
  • 01-12-65 – Fort Smith Evacuation Causes Hardship, Death
  • 01-13-65 – Smith Draws Criticism For Not Moving Troops
  • 01-14-65 – U.S. Commander Issues Oath-Taking Regulations
  • 01-15-65 – Rebel Roundup Follows Telegraph Line Break
  • 01-16-65 – Details Go To Des Arc For Building Material
  • 01-17-65 – Colonel William Brooks Attacks U.S. Force At Dardanelle; Hits 3 Transports
  • 01-18-65 – Threat Eased, Troops Move From Dardanelle
  • 01-19-65 – Change In Plans Sends Division To Louisiana
  • 01-20-65 – Federal Draft Ordered In State, Nearby Areas
  • 01-21-65 – Draft Delayed Month Beyond Original Date
  • 01-22-65 – U.S. Scouting Party Returns To Memphis
  • 01-23-65 – Federals Eat Breakfast Of Routed Confederates
  • 01-24-65 – U.S. Units Invade Arkansas, Louisiana In Effort To Dislodge Harrison’s Cavalry
  • 01-25-65 – Conditions Deplorable In Confederates’ Food
  • 01-26-65 – Commander Splits State Into Provost Districts
  • 01-27-65 – One Deserter Arrested; Second Eludes Federals
  • 01-28-65 – Theaters At Capital Get New Proprietors
  • 01-29-65 – Paper Shortage Irks Usually Placid Editor
  • 01-30-65 – Firemen Attend Theater Wearing New Uniforms
  • 01-31-65 – Congress Adopts Amendment To Abolish Slavery—Murphy Calls Special Session
  • 02-01-65 – Editor Offers Advice On Southern Negroes
  • 02-02-65 – Arkansas Editor Fears Future Without Slaves
  • 02-03-65 – John W. Woodward Dies; Many Arkansans Mourn
  • 02-04-65 – Fort Smith Newspaper Has Precarious Career
  • 02-05-65 – Seven Union Newspapers Published In Early ‘65
  • 02-06-65 – Washington Commander Asks Public For Arms
  • 02-07-65 – General Bussey Takes Command Of Third Division And Is Ordered To Fort Smith
  • 02-08-65 – Keeping Cities Clean Problem For Military
  • 02-09-65 – Rebel Guerrillas Harass Foraging Detachment
  • 02-10-65 – Reynolds Lists Needs For Federal Garrisons
  • 02-11-65 – Reynolds Decides Post In Chicot Impractical
  • 02-12-65 – U.S. Detachment Finds Deserted Headquarters
  • 02-13-65 – U.S. Commander Fears Price To Try New Raid
  • 02-14-65 – Federals Authorize Farm-Militia Colonies For Civilians In Some Northwest Counties
  • 02-15-65 – Fort Smith Troubled Greatly By Inflation
  • 02-16-65 – Federal Scouting Unit Scours Border Area
  • 02-17-65 – Killing Of Scout Leads To Hunt For Witt’s Men
  • 02-18-65 – New State Government Starts Collecting Taxes
  • 02-19-65 – Scout Commander Irked By Trade With Rebels
  • 02-20-65 – Wagonload Of Currency Sent To Texas For Swap
  • 02-21-65 – Kansas Torturers Are Captured By State Troops; Their Depredations Are ‘Shocking’
  • 02-22-65 – Soldiers Depredations Trouble U.S. Officers
  • 02-23-65 – Union Commander Asks Transfer From Arkansas
  • 02-24-65 – Buford Fears Transfer Intended As Reprimand
  • 02-25-65 – U.S. Party Repulses Attack In Heavy Rain
  • 02-26-65 – Congress Receives Bill To Form New Territory
  • 02-27-65 – Union League Promotes Radical Republicanism
  • 02-28-65 – General Canby Opens Major U.S. Attack On Mobile; Troops From Arkansas Used 

 

• File 8 – March-April 1965, Articles 1870-1930, Articles 1870-1930
  • 03-01-65 – Military Telegraph Hits Efficiency Peak
  • 03-02-65 – Federals, Guerrillas Clash Near Pine Bluff
  • 03-03-65 – Editor Sadly Recognizes Cotton Not Really King
  • 03-04-65 – 2d Lincoln Inaugural Marked At Fort Smith
  • 03-05-65 – Law For Negro Troops Too Late To Aid South
  • 03-06-65 – Rebel Editor Attempts To Reassure Readers
  • 03-07-65 – Court Of Inquiry Assembles In April, 1865 To Check Reynolds’ Charges Against Price
  • 03-08-65 – Many State Families Border On Starvation
  • 03-09-65 – Families Of Union Men Pose Special Problem
  • 03-10-65 – U.S. Detachment Falls In Trap; Captain Dies
  • 03-11-65 – Congress Doesn’t Act On Representation Plea
  • 03-12-65 – Adventurous Soldier Killed By Guerrillas
  • 03-13-65 – 18 Guerrillas Killed By Regiment In 2 Weeks
  • 03-14-65 – Confederate Property Is Ordered Sold—Laws Later Declared Unconstitutional
  • 03-15-65 – Negro Suffrage Claims Much Public Attention
  • 03-16-65 – Status Of Ex-Rebels Concerns Federalists
  • 03-17-65 – First Federal Draft In State Takes 212
  • 03-18-65 – New Source Helps Cut Prices At Fort Smith
  • 03-19-65 – Bugler Bungles, Lets Guerrilla Leader Flee
  • 03-20-65 – Fort Smith Residents Find City Different
  • 03-21-65 – Department Of Arkansas Is Transferred From West Mississippi To The Missouri
  • 03-22-65 – Federals Get Captives In Raid At Monticello
  • 03-23-65 – Registration Ordered For Liberated Slaves
  • 03-24-65 – Two Books Published In Confederate Area
  • 03-25-65 – Newspaper Is Enlarged Despite Difficulties
  • 03-26-65 – Home For War Orphans Brings Plea For Funds
  • 03-27-65 – Home For War Orphans Begun At Fort Smith
  • 03-28-65 – Arkansas General Assembly Unanimously Ratifies Amendment Abolishing Slavery
  • 03-29-65 – Problems Of Quorum Plague The Assembly
  • 03-30-65 – House Has A Problem Maintaining Quorum
  • 03-31-65 – Governor Isaac Murphy Vetoes Tax Legislation
  • 04-01-65 – Senator Snow’s Election Prompts Stormy Debate
  • 04-02-65 – 2 Bills To Deny Rights To Reclaimed Rebels Die
  • 04-03-65 – First Arkansas Cavalry Gives Up Battle Flag
  • 04-04-65 – Legislative Bill For Freedmen’s Rights Brings Storm Of Protest—Is Defeated
  • 04-05-65 – Circuit Court Dispute Involves Legislature
  • 04-06-65 – Train Guards Repulse Guerrilla Attackers
  • 04-07-65 – Federal Detachment Kills 2 Bushwhackers
  • 04-08-65 – Paper Flays Clayton; Another Defends Him
  • 04-09-65 – Two Cities Celebrate ‘Beginning Of End’
  • 04-10-65 – Bitter-End Optimist Hails Richmond’s Fall
  • 04-11-65 – And Then Came Appomattox—On April 9 Lee Surrendered All His Available Units
  • 04-12-65 – U.S. Seeks Surrender Of State’s Rebel Force
  • 04-13-65 – Confederate General Refuses To Surrender
  • 04-14-65 – Confederate’s Memoirs Recall Surrender News
  • 04-15-65 – Rebels Slow To Accept Lee’s Surrender As End
  • 04-16-65 – Steamboat Tycoon Sets Record Of 23 ½ Hours
  • 04-17-65 – Guerrillas Loot Craft At Sunnyside Landing
  • 04-18-65 – Cannon Boom At Fort Steele—And Give The News Of The Assassination Of Lincoln
  • 04-19-65 – Assassination News Reaches Fort Smith
  • 04-20-65 – Fort Smith Contributes To Memorial For Lincoln
  • 04-21-65 – Death Of Lincoln Seen As Blow To The South
  • 04-22-65 – Federal Posts Attempt To Subdue Guerrillas
  • 04-23-65 – Telegraph Line Damage Causes News Blackout
  • 04-24-65 – Confederate Troops Say They’ll Continue Fight
  • 04-25-65 – ‘Sultana’ Explosion On The Mississippi May Have Been Greatest Marine Disaster
  • 04-26-65 – U.S. Takes First Step Toward Peacetime Status
  • 04-27-65 – Editor Eakin Wavers In Advice To Public
  • 04-28-65 – Murphy Urges Kindness To Repatriated Rebels
  • 04-29-65 – Many Rebels Desert, Surrender To North
  • 04-30-65 – Colonization Debated In Fort Smith Paper

 

• File 9 – May-June 1965, Articles 1931-1944
  • 05-01-65 – Publication Resumed By Arkansas Gazette
  • 05-02-65 – General Thompson, The CSA’s ‘Swamp Fox’, Surrenders To Lt. Col. Charles W. Davis
  • 05-03-65 – Rebel General Seeks Surrender Interview
  • 05-04-65 – Steps Taken For Change In Government Of State
  • 05-05-65 – Guerrilla Leader Kills Another After Quarrel
  • 05-06-65 – Last Reported Skirmish Fought At Monticello
  • 05-07-65 – Guerrillas Surrender In Greater Numbers
  • 05-08-65 – Some Sections Of State Drift To Near Anarchy
  • 05-09-65 – Kirby Smith, ‘General Without An Army’, Surrenders His Command At New Orleans
  • 05-16-65 – Restored Portrait Of William E. Woodruff On Display At The Newspaper He Founded
  • 05-23-65 – Former Governor Archibald Yell Meets Death While Serving In Mexican War
  • 05-30-65 – An Old Address To The Bar Association Gives The Travails Of A Young Lawyer
  • 06-06-65 – General Assembly Passes Strict Anti-Duel Law Following The Allen-Oden Conflict
  • 06-27-65 – Two Arkansas Territorial Jurists In Duel Near Helena; Judge Joseph Selden Killed 

 

• File 10 – July-December 1965, Articles 1945-1970
  • 07-04-65 – Federal Military Occupation Of State Begins – General McGinnis Commander
  • 07-11-65 – Shift From Slavery To Freedom Brings No Dramatic Change To State’s Negroes
  • 07-18-65 – John Breck Treat Comes To Arkansas – Project Is To Establish New Trading Post
  • 07-25-65 – Law’s Scheme To Colonize Along Arkansas Fails Of Grandeur After He Skips Paris
  • 08-01-65 – French Official Makes Inspection Tour Of ‘Sotehouy’ – Or ‘Arkansas’ As We Know It
  • 08-08-65 – Company Of The Indies Recalls Troops From Law’s Colony On Arkansas River
  • 08-15-65 – ’32 Cholera Epidemic Leads Little Rock To Establish First City Board Of Health
  • 08-22-65 – First Public Cemetery Is Built In Capital After 14 Years; Private Area Used Earlier
  • 08-29-65 – The First General Assembly Of Arkansas Convenes February 7 At Arkansas Post
  • 09-05-65 – A Memorable Time In 1811—A Comet, An Earthquake, And A Famous Steamboat
  • 09-12-65 – Letters Of Judge Andrew Scott Disclose The Thoughts Of A Man Before A Duel
  • 09-19-65 – Steamboat Comet Makes Historic Trip – Opens Navigation Up To Arkansas Post
  • 09-26-65 – First Steamboats Reach Little Rock In ’22 On Way To Dwight Mission, Fort Smith
  • 10-03-65 – John Dunn Hunter – A Man Of Mystery – Intrigued The Nation With Indian Tales
  • 10-10-65 – John J. Pershing Listed Herman Davis As Arkansas’s Top Hero Of World War I
  • 10-17-65 – Democrats Attack Albert Pike, A Leading Whig, On Basis Of Minor Unpaid Board Bill
  • 10-24-65 – 1838: Little Rock Gets First Steam Ferry – Population Increases To 1,431 Persons
  • 10-31-65 – Vice President Richard Mentor Johnson Visits State – Is Honored In Little Rock
  • 11-07-65 – Party Strife Inspires New Whig Paper – Arkansas Star Has Short, Stormy Career
  • 11-14-65 – City Fathers Fiddle While Little Rock—Or At Least  Large Sections Of It – Burns
  • 11-21-65 – Woodruff Arrives At Arkansas Post – Publishes First Issue Of Gazette In 1819
  • 11-28-65 – Miller’s Prediction Of End Of The World Frightens Many In Stormy Spring Of ‘43
  • 12-05-65 – Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great-Grandfather Is Elected To Arkansas House In 1842
  • 12-12-65 – Explosion Of Steamboat New Hampshire Is One Of State’s Worst River Accidents
  • 12-19-65 – California Beckons Arkansans In 1846 – But Their  Expedition Ends In Tragedy
  • 12-26-65 – Visitor To Hot Springs Lists Attractions And Drawbacks Of Resort In The 1830s

 

• File 11 – January-April 1966, Articles 1971-1987
  • 01-02-66 – Indians Brings Tragedy To Tidwell Family In Texas—Survivors Move To Arkansas
  • 01-09-66 – First Theatrical Company In Little Rock Has Performance Here In December 1838
  • 01-16-66 – Little Rock Theater Opens Second Season; In Remodeled Livery Stable ‘Stars’ Play
  • 01-23-66 – Rev. Theobald Mathew, The Temperance Crusader, Visits State In Summer Of 1850
  • 01-30-66 – Ten Newspapers Are Published In Period Following Creation Of Arkansas Territory
  • 02-06-66 – Hindman Wounded In Helena Gunfight – Another Is Killed In Downtown Battles
  • 02-13-66 – Batesville’s Institute – A Community Center – Was Pride Of The City In 1800s
  • 02-20-66 – Arkansas Gazette’s Christopher Danley Gets A Good ‘Story’ While At Hot Springs
  • 02-27-66 – Little Rock Had A Hard Row To Hoe—But It Finally Became The Unchallenged Capital
  • 03-06-66 – Early Camden Had A Unique Distinction: Someone Tried To Steal Away Its River!
  • 03-13-66 – Six Steamboats Are Built On The Arkansas Prior To Civil War – Three At Little Rock
  • 03-20-66 – Dr. William Byrd Powell – Whether Genius Or Crackpot – Made Many Friends In State
  • 03-27-66 – Federal Soldiers Break Into Newspaper Office At Camden, Demolish Equipment
  • 04-03-66 – Pine Bluff Newspaper Editor Is Mistaken For Conspirator In The Death Of Lincoln
  • 04-10-66 – Pulaski County’s First Jail Was Scarcely Effective—It Was Merely A Log Cabin
  • 04-17-66 – Three Families Settle At The ‘Little Rock’ Around 1769 But No Exact Date Is Known
  • 04-24-66 – 2d Wave Of Settlers Comes To Little Rock – Joins Earlier French-Quapaw Community

 

• File 12 – May-August 1966, Articles 1988-2002
  • 05-01-66 – Historical Association’s Meeting Here Will Explore The Group’s Predecessors
  • 05-08-66 – Cincinnati Newsman Visits Arkansas—And Isn’t Impressed With Our Facilities
  • 05-15-66 – Huntersville Grew Up Around A Railroad – It’s Site Is Now Part Of North Little Rock
  • 05-15-66 – Flood Ravages Hot Springs In 1871 As Its Creek Becomes A River; Damage Extensive
  • 05-29-66 – Gazette Reporter Writes Of Memorable Train Trip To Memphis In Spring Of 1871
  • 06-05-66 – Disastrous Fire Hits Little Rock In ’54 —Important Buildings Are Destroyed
  • 06-12-66 – Second Destructive Fire Hits Little Rock In 1871—This Is The Worst History
  • 06-19-66 – Pierre Laclede, The Founder Of St. Louis, Died In Arkansas – But Who Knows Where?
  • 06-26-66 – Holy Calliope! As The Old Saying Goes—Gazette Runs Its First Ad For A Circus
  • 07-03-66 – Attorney John Taylor Makes Indelible Mark With Sharp Tongue, Eloquence
  • 07-10-66 – Old State House Is Beautiful Building—But It  Wasn’t Like That In Old Days
  • 08-07-66 – Old Spadra Mine Was Part Of Extensive Coal Field Bordering The Arkansas River
  • 08-14-66 – Boxing Comes To Little Rock In 1872—First Fight Gets Mixed Reactions Here
  • 08-14-66 – Boxing Comes To Little Rock In 1872—First Fight Gets Mixed Reactions Here
  • 08-21-66 – Marengo Joe, Sharper, Gambler, Deputy, Promotes Fights, Other Fulton Endeavors
  • 08-28-66 – Plucky Arkansas Lady Leaves Her Story Of The Travails Of The Era Of The Civil War

 

• File 13 – September-December 1966, Articles 2003-2019
  • 09-04-66 – Continuing The Reminiscences Of A Brave Arkansas Woman During The Civil War
  • 09-11-66 – The Final Installment Of Susan Fletcher’s Saga Of The Hardships Of The Civil War
  • 09-18-66 – Vice President Henry Wilson Visits — Hasty Plans Are Made For A Reception
  • 09-25-66 – Memphis Group Forms Organization – ‘Old Folks’: Judge Underwood Is A Member
  • 10-02-66 – Stage Coach Robbery Near Hot Springs In 1874 Is Attributed To The James Gang
  • 10-09-66 – James Gang Again Suspected Of Robbery — But This Time It’s A Railroad Train
  • 10-16-66 – Outlaws Pull Another Stagecoach Robbery — This Time Not Blamed On The James Gang
  • 10-23-66 – Family Valuables Hidden In Civil War Gave Birth To Buried Treasure Legends
  • 10-30-66 – Diamonds Are Discovered In Arkansas — But There Were A Number Of Earlier Finds
  • 11-06-66 – Gov. John Pope Incorporates Little Rock — 40 Families Are In Residence In 1824
  • 11-13-66 – James Russell Berry’s Memoirs Describe His Life In Arkansas Back In The 1830s
  • 11-20-66 – William E. Woodruff Comes To Arkansas—And Founds Gazette Arkansas Post
  • 11-27-66 – More Notes From James R. Berry On His Life In Arkansas:  He Visits Hot Springs
  • 12-04-66 – Governor Elisha Baxter Was A Unionist—And He Suffered For It In Civil War
  • 12-11-66 – A Tragic Day At Helena Sees A Gunfight, Lynching, And Hindman’s Assassination
  • 12-18-66 – Suspects Arrested In Hindman’s Murder—But The Long Search Proves Fruitless
  • 12-25-66 – Steamboating Was A Profitable Trade In The 1800s—But A Dangerous One, Too

 

• File 14 – January-April 1967, Articles 2020-2037
  • 01-01-67 – Arkansan Journeys West To Bring Back 17 Survivors Of 1857 Mormon Massacre
  • 01-08-67 – 1st Protestant Mission To Osage Indians Delayed, Spends 6 Months In Arkansas
  • 01-15-67 – Little Rock’s First Lady Resident Arrived In 1820, Bore City’s First Child In 1822
  • 01-22-67 – First Negro Legislators Are Named In 1868—In Same Election Won By Powell Clayton
  • 01-29-67 – The Hassle Over Pulaski’s Judge Recalls The Futrell-Oldham Controversy Of 1913
  • 02-05-67 – Old Town Of Bartlett Turned Out To Be Only Frustrated Dreams—And Schemes
  • 02-12-67 – Old Town Of Bartlett Got A New Name—Warren — But Is Remembered As Marche
  • 02-19-67 – Plans For Polish Community At Marche Began With Letter To Editor Of Gazette
  • 02-26-67 – Gold Strike In Searcy Excites Arkansas–But It Lasts Only About Three Months
  • 03-05-67 – Gabriel Mccowan’s ‘Eye Water’ Brought Fame, But He Had Other Claims To History
  • 03-12-67 – Watkins Family Moved To Little Rock During The Territorial Days Of Arkansas
  • 03-19-67 – Louisa Clark Planned To Teach Indians—But Romance Met Her In Old Little Rock
  • 03-26-67 – Edward Payson Washburn Had Artistic Ability, And Became Well-Known Painter
  • 04-02-67 – 3 Letters From J. Woodward Washbourne Tell Of The Bloody Battle Of Pea Ridge
  • 04-09-67 – 1835 Treaty Leads To The ‘Trail Of Tears’ For Cherokees, As They Move To The West
  • 04-16-67 – Continuing The Story Of The Washburn Family—Famed In History Of Arkansas
  • 04-23-67 – Internal Discord Within Cherokee Nation Still Strong Even After Civil War Ends
  • 04-30-67 – J. Woodward Washbourne Goes To Capital As Secretary Of Southern Cherokee Group

 

• File 15 – May-August 1967, Articles 2038-2052
  • 05-07-67 – Conclusion Of The Historic Washbourne Letter On Negotiations In Washington
  • 05-14-67 – Wright Daniel, Elisha White Are Among First White Settlers In Little Rock Area
  • 05-21-67 – Few Remember Old Mill Creek, Which Once Ran Through Eastern Little Rock
  • 05-28-67 – Lawyer David Rorer Dabbled In Politics During Nine Years In Arkansas Territory
  • 06-04-67 – David Rorer’s Ferry Was A Landmark In The Pioneer Days Of Little Rock
  • 06-11-67 – Amos Wheeler Arrives At The ‘Little Rock’ Back  In 1819 To Survey The Proposed City
  • 06-18-67 – Samuel Wollard Listed As First Buyer Of The New Urban Lots In Little Rock
  • 06-25-67 – First Brickmakers Open Operations In New Town Of Little Rock; Others Follow
  • 07-02-67 – Sevier-Newton Duel Is Overshadowed By Another—Crittenden Against Conway
  • 07-09-67 – Duels, In Arkansas And Elsewhere, Stir Controversy; Senate Measure Is Passed
  • 07-16-67 – The Origin Of The Steamboat Whistle–A Favorite Argument Among Rivermen
  • 08-06-67 – 1811 Was A Terrible Year–New Madrid Made It Truly Memorable For Arkansans
  • 08-13-67 – The New Madrid Earthquakes Of 1811-’12 Were As Terrifying On River As On Land
  • 08-20-67 – Length Of New Madrid Earthquake Is Debatable; It Began December 16, 1811
  • 08-27-67 – Indian Factor Wrote Detailed Notes On The Louisiana Purchase Territory

 

• File 16 – September-December 1967, Articles 2053-2070
  • 09-03-67 – Concluding John Breck Treat’s Report On The White River And Its Tributaries
  • 09-10-67 – Eureka Springs Has An Interesting History—But Few Persons Seem To Agree About It
  • 09-17-67 – Elijah A. More Is Elected Commissioner Of Public Buildings By Legislature In 1836
  • 09-24-67 – Tenn. Governor Sam Houston Resigned; Went To Live Three Years Among Indians
  • 10-01-67 – Federal Attempts To Remove The Famed Red River Raft Draw Regional Interest
  • 10-08-67 – Gazette Reporter Takes A Ride On LR&Fs And Writes Story Of His Trip Up To Ozark
  • 10-15-67 – Gazette Editor Opie Read Tells Tall Tale Of Rise And Demise Of Short-Lived Paper
  • 10-22-67 – ‘The Town Opposite Bentonville’ Marks A Major Milestone:  The Frisco Arrives
  • 10-29-67 – Arkansas Woman’s Butter Sculpture Is A Sensation At Philadelphia Exposition
  • 11-05-67 – Organized Religion Comes To Little Rock In 1820’s—And Has A Civilizing Effect
  • 11-12-67 – Daniel Upham Makes A Quick Fortune In The Post-War ‘Carpetbagging’ Days
  • 11-19-67 – Upham Closes Business In New York—Sets Up New Enterprises In Arkansas
  • 11-26-67 – Provisional Government Deposed Under Reconstruction Acts; Election Is Held
  • 12-03-67 – Organization Of Arkansas Militia Leads To Violence; Several Persons Are Killed
  • 12-10-67 – Telephone Service Comes To Little Rock In 1879: Forty Subscribers Are Recorded
  • 12-17-67 – Pine Bluff, Fort Smith And Van Buren Get Telephone Service; Instructions Issued 
  • 12-24-67 – Visit By Kentucky Evangelist In 1832 Causes Church Upheaval In Little Rock
  • 12-31-67 –Two Kentucky Evangelists Successful During A 26-Day Revival At Little Rock

 

• File 17 – January-June 1968, Articles 2071-2093
  • 01-07-68 – Postmaster O. A. Hadley Takes Action To Get Free Mail Delivery In Little Rock
  • 01-14-68 – Presbyterian Ladies Of 1880 Have Idea For Raising Money – An Art Exhibition
  • 01-21-68 – Judge Gus Fulk’s Radio Speech In 1948 Gives A Picture Of Little Rock In The 1880s
  • 01-28-68 – Concluding Judge Gus Fulk’s Description Of His Native Little Rock Back In 1880s
  • 02-04-68 – Thomas Parsel Writes His Recollections Of Little Rock In The 1840s, ‘50s And ‘60s
  • 02-11-68 – James H. Lucas, Arkansas Gazette Printer, Becomes The Wealthiest Man In St. Louis
  • 02-18-68 – Laffite The Pirate Made Secret Mission To Arkansas’ During ‘Lost Period In 1816
  • 02-25-68 – Old Story Of The ‘Big’ And ‘Little’ Rocks Not Borne Out By La Harpe’s Own Report
  • 03-03-68 – And Now, Another Historical Question–Who Actually ‘Did Name The Little Rock’?
  • 03-10-68 – Little Rock Finally Gets A City Directory–After A Couple Of False Starts – In 1871
  • 03-17-68 – Albert E. Sholes Of Memphis Begins Work On The First ‘Professional’ City Directory
  • 03-24-68 – Arkansas Organizes Regiment, Battalion In 1846 For Service During Mexican War
  • 03-31-68 – Whigs Often Elected To State Legislature; Only One, Newton, Ever Went To Congress
  • 04-07-68 – Group From Maine Seeks New Location For Factories, Make Visit To Arkansas
  • 04-14-68 – Some Interesting Speculation On How Our State Finally Got The Name Of ‘Arkansas’
  • 04-21-68 – James Miller, New Hampshire War Hero, Is Named Governor Of Arkansas Territory
  • 04-28-68 – Some Military Friends, Some Career Men Accompany Governor Miller To Arkansas
  • 05-05-68 – Two Other Millers Join Governor Miller On Trip To State; One Was His Brother
  • 05-12-68 – First Session Of Arkansas’s Territorial Assembly Adjourns; Miller Makes Trip
  • 05-19-68 – James Miller, First Territorial Governor, Brought Men Of Ability To The Frontier
  • 05-26-68 – Thomas S. Drew Became Fourth Governor Of State, But Resigned In Second Term
  • 06-02-68 – Oliver H.P. Bilby’s Letters Home Describe His Adventures During The Mexican War
  • 06-09-68 – Henry C. Byrd Wins Fame As A Portrait Painter–Receives Many Commissions

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