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10th Arkansas Infantry Regiment

Posted on January 27, 2008September 27, 2015

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Civil War Units History The Tenth Arkansas Infantry Regiment was organized at Springfield in Conway County in July 1861. This is where many volunteers from Van Buren County (southern Van Buren County later became Cleburne) were mustered into the Confederate Army. Company “A,” known as “Quitman Rifles,” was headed by…

Civil War

Posted on January 3, 2008September 27, 2015

There is no other legend quite like the Confederate fighting man. He reached the end of his haunted road long ago. He fought for a star-crossed cause and in the end he was beaten, but as he carried his slashed red battle flag into the dusky twilight of the Lost…

The Southern Loyalist

Posted on January 3, 2008September 27, 2015

Excerpts from The Southern Loyalist By: Robert E. Hurst So you think that just because you come from the south, your ancestors must have been Confederates? Richard Nelson Current, author of “Lincoln’s Loyalists,” estimates that as many as 100,000 white, Southern males wore the Blue instead of the Gray as…

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Joseph M. Bailey Memoirs of the Civil War

Posted on January 3, 2008September 27, 2015

THIS STORY WAS WRITTEN OVER FORTY YEARS AFTER THE WAR ENDED This story was written as a result of a number of requests of grandchildren to tell them stories of the War between the States. As I was a poor story teller, I promised to write for them something of…

Civil War Ancestors

Posted on August 9, 2004September 27, 2015

Leonard Travis Cranford
Company B, 12th Regiment of Alabama Infantry, wounded at Petersburg, finished war in Union Hospital at Point Lockout, MD as POW.

James A. Cranford
2nd Battalion Hilliard’s Legion (later merged to 59th Alabama Infantry Regiment) in 1862, died at the Division Hospital, Fair Ground #2, Atlanta, GA October 1863

George W. Haile
Company A, 11th Regiment of Tennessee Infantry, captured at Missionary Ridge, POW for 18 months at Rock Island, IL.

Hyrum T. Jackson
10th Regiment of Arkansas Infantry, wounded at Shiloh, furloughed to AR, didn’t return

B. F. Jackson
10th Regiment of Arkansas Infantry, later reformed as10th Regiment of Arkansas Cavalry

Jacob A Kever
Co F, 37th Regiment of North Carolina Infantry

Isaac Logan
63d Regiment of Alabama Infantry, less than 17 years old

James Logan
Co G, 2d Regiment of Alabama Cavalry

John Logan
Co C, 59th Regiment of Alabama Infantry

Sidney Norton
Co A, 6th Regiment of North Carolina Cavalry

William Alexander Norton
Wounded 5-5-1864 at Wilderness, VA, died of wounds 5-8-1864, 38th Regiment of North Carolina Infantry