New Era Newspaper, Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas November 26, 1864 FROM TYLER TEXAS Fort Smith, Arkansas, November 24, 1864 Editor New Era: Sir:- As many of the readers of your paper have friends in the military prison Camp Ford, near Tyler, Smith County, Texas, it may be interesting to some of them to know how they are treated, and as I am recently from there, I ask a place in your columns for the following: The prison is an area of eight acres enclosed by logs set on end six feet high inside of which the men have erected rude cabins and temporary sheds which partly protect them from the weather. There is a spring of good water inside and the men are seldom or never permitted to go without the enclosure. Rations are issued to the prisoners every morning and consist of three articles; one quart of meal, one and a quarter pounds of beef and three-fourths ounces of salt to each man. The meal is coarse and unsifted. The beef is generally good. There are no vegetables allowed and hundreds of the men have scurvy. The rations are insufficient, and to a Federal Soldier, are certainly a poor substitute, for those allowed by his government. If the commanding officer was so disposed he could do better for our men but they say anything good enough for the d—d Yankees, and while their men had half rations of flour and bacon issued them we were issued cracked corn and beef. Wood is issued in small quantities scarcely sufficient for cooking purposes, and under the present commander the men are not permitted to go to the neighboring woods for any. Owing to the inferior quantity of the rations and the want of medicines many brave fellows who have nobly fought for their country have died here, and many more will die if not soon exchanged. The hospital which is outside the stockade is a rude, comfortless building, erected without a nail, and is continually falling down. It does not turn the rain, neither is there a chimney to it, and the patients are compelled to lay without a fire, or a mattress under them, and some who were weak and emaciated have died of the cold. The sick are allowed half rations of flour, bacon and sugar, but are not supplied with proper medicines, consequently, some days, as many as five die. Although two parties have been exchanged there are yet 2,600 remaining at Tyler and 500 at Camp Gross, 200 miles west of Tyler, and had not our government sent 1,200 suits of clothes, the men would have been naked. Every party of prisoners taken to Tyler are robbed by the guards on the way, and some of the men who were captured with the train at Cabin Creek, came in without their pantaloons and boots. Some who became foot sore and unable to travel had a rope tied around their necks and dragged along. Private Selick of Company H, 2nd Kansas Cavalry, was shot dead June 17th, on the way from Camden to Shreveport, because he could not travel as fast as the guards. In the stockade men are shot down and during the four months that I remained there four men were shot and not the least notice taken of it. Kansas troops are treated worse than any others, and the party, 120 that were captured with Major Mefford and Lieutenant DeFrieze were not permitted to have any shelter erected and were obliged with only six blankets amongst them to lay on the ground. With all the hard things the men have to endure they are cheerful and have their jokes. On one occasion the mill became out of repair and the Q M issued us corn on the cob, the reason being explained to the boys. They said nothing about it the first day, but the second day seen it was corn they gathered around the Q M and made him promise to bring hay and oats the next time. The next day, however, they received their everlasting meal. The men amuse themselves playing chess and other games, and there are three turning tables in full blast, to the great astonishment of the Rebs. In the month of July, under Colonel Border’s Command a great many made their escape. On the 28th of September a tunnel 80 feet long was completed and 28 made their escape, but the guard detected, and in the morning they started five blood hounds on their trail and recaptured 11 of them. One was severely torn. Since then they have dug a ditch eight feet around the stockade and escapes are few. The men are counted twice per day, and so particular are they that when a man dies the officer of the day had to examine the coffin before it is removed for burial. M F Parker, 1s Sergeant, Company C, 6th Kansas, and Private J J Jones, 5th Kansas and myself, succeeded in making our escape on the 27th of October. Our outfit consisted of eight pounds of bread and four pounds of bacon and a blanket apiece. We crossed the Red River November 7th, above the mouth of Mill Creek, and traveled north, near the Choctaw line and were getting along well until the night of the 17th of November, when in the neighborhood of Waldron, we were recaptured by a company of bushwhackers and barely escaped being killed. They told us they were bushwhackers, and that they killed every Kansas and Arkansan that fell into their hands; and that since the 1st of April they had killed sixty Federals. They treated us well, and after robbing our clothes told us they would not kill us but would send us back to Tyler. They took us back nine miles the following day and the next day would have turned us over to Miller, Captain of a similar company, but I happened to know th! e gentleman, and that if we were turned over to him it would be all over for us. So I gave them the slip, that night, and succeeded in getting in here on Monday, 21st inst., being without anything to eat for three days. Parker and Jones made their escape from the bushwhackers on the 19th and came in on the 22nd. We were 26 days on the road. We lived on acorns, and corn when we could get it, but only found it at one place this side of the Red River. A bushel of corn is worth more than a bushel of Confederate Money. The country is depopulated for sixty miles south of Fort Smith. Robert Henderson. Fran Alverson Warren e-mail: [email protected] 479-369-2703 http://www.crawfordcountyarkansas.net/

Greetings all, I would like to send for a copy of the Freedman's Bureau Records for my Ancestors, the year is 1866, I only have one piece of identifying information where it could be found. Field Office Montebello, Drew County, Entry 393 Labor Contracts. Would that be enough information to find this information? Do I need a volume and page number (I don't have either), and what would the cost be since I live in California? Thanks for your replies. Dena Jordan.

Shown below is the index to Civil War on the Western Frontier, recently published by compiling news items taken from the New Era, a Fort Smith, Arkansas Newspaper: 1 12th Kansas 13, 22 12th Kansas Infantry 24, 35 12th Kansas Volunteers 12 12th Michigan Volunteers 20 13th Kansas Infantry 32, 34, 40 13th Kansas Infantry Brass Band 25 14th Kansas Cavalry 12, 19, 33, 51 14th Kansas Cavalry Volunteers 32, 48, 52 14th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry 54 18th Iowa Infantry 8, 57 1st Arkansas Battery 20, 41, 46 1st Arkansas Cavalry 19, 33, 58 1st Arkansas Infantry 8, 21, 25, 36, 47 1st Indiana 22 1st Indiana Cavalry 15 1st Kansas Colored 14, 37 1st Kansas Colored Volunteers 8 1st Missouri Battery 15 1st Regiment Kansas Colored Infantry 5 2 27th Missouri Volunteers 40 2nd Indiana Battery 10, 15, 20 2nd Iowa Battery 31 2nd Kansas 25 2nd Kansas Battery 37, 45 2nd Kansas Cavalry 9 2nd Kansas Colored 13, 14, 42 2nd Missouri Artillery 36 3 31st Regiment Texas Cavalry 30 33rd Iowa 13 4 4th Arkansas Cavalry 13 4th of July, at Fort No. 4 23 5 50th Indiana 13, 15 54th Colored 7 5th Kansas Cavalry 15 6 6th Kansas Cavalry 21, 24, 30, 31, 34, 38, 40, 45 9 9th Kansas Cavalry 6, 18, 19 9th Wisconsin Infantry 36 A Adamson, Elijah 20 Adcock, R M 6 Akes, John 41 Alcoholic Stimuli 6 Anderson, James M 53 Anderson, T J 54 Anderson, W 46 Andrews, C 16 Andrews, James P 16 ANOTHER LOT OF REFUGEES 54 ANOTHER VICTIM OF BUSHWHACKING CRUELTY 25 Apaches 43 Arapahos 44 Arkansas River 39, 58 Arkansas Soldiers 25 Armstrong, A J 11 Armstrong, Captain 14 Army Church 50 Army of Arkansas 39 ARRIVAL OF STEAMBOATS 7 ASSASSINATION 19 Assistant Adjutant General 32 Assistant Provost Marshal 25 Assistant Quarter Master 51 Atkins, C S 31 ATTACK ON A FORAGE TRAIN 51 ATTACK ON THE TOWN- REPULSE OF THE REBELS 37 Austin, E B 46 B Baker, W A 16 Barling, Miss Sarah Eugine 45 Bartiles, J H 50 Bartmess, Peter 31 Bates County, Missouri 5 Battle of Back Bone 26 Battle of Cane Hill 26 Battle of Jenkin’s Ferry 35 Battle of Jenkins Ferry 14 Battle of Jenkins’ Ferry 22 Battle of Poison Springs 14, 36 Battle of Prairie Grove 26 Bawcum, Wm R 20 Beabee, Perry 44 Beattie, James 16 Beddeson, Wm E 16 Beebe, Oscar S 16 Bellamy, B E 16 Belle Grove Hospital, Fort Smith Arkansas 49 Belle Point Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons 59 Belle Point Lodge, F A M 59 Bennett, Joseph 49 Bennett, Mrs. Margaret 49 Benton County, Arkansas 26 Billings, Wm G 16 Bishop, James 16 BLACK SCHOLARS 28 Blair, Charles D 16 Blanchard, Thomas 16 Blunt, General 26, 50 BOATS ARRIVED AND DEPARTED 28 Boggy Depot 2 Bonham, Texas 2 Bourland’s Regiment 2 Boyd, Marcus 42 Brass Band 25 Bright’s Store 29 Brobst, F J 16 Brogan, Joseph 30 Brooks, A 46 Brooks, Edward J 51 Brooks, J 16 Broomback, John 53 Brown, John 33 Brownsville, Nebraska 44 Bunch, Woodson 20 Burchan, H C 16 Bushwhacked 18 BUSHWHACKED 18 Bushwhacker 26 Bushwhackers 1, 5, 6, 13, 18, 19, 21, 32 Bushwhacking 17 BUSHWHACKING ITEMS 18 Bushwhacking Warfare 18 Buzzell, Artemas L 16 C Cabell 58 Cabell, Major 37 Camden, Arkansas 14, 15, 36 Canfield, Dr. 36 Captain Coleman 45 Captain Smith’s Battery 38 Captain Turner 13 Carhart, Lieutenant 7 Carr, John 16 Cary, William 31, 33 Cassville, Missouri 26 CAVALRY HORSES! 51 Charleston Road 3 Cheyennes 44 Chief, Joe 41 Choctaw Indians 53 Chronic Diarrhea 4 Chronic, D A 41 CITIZEN POST OFFICE 21 Clarendon, Arkansas 27 Clark, L 41 Clarksville, Arkansas 7, 19 Clay County, Missouri 44 Clinkenbaeard, E 16 Cochran, Miss Martha Josephine 21 Coldron, L C 16 Coleman, Captain 6 Coleman, Charles 11 Colonel Bowen 23, 32 Colonel Burris 57 Colonel Cloud 26 Colonel Fenn, 27 Colonel Moonlight 57 Colonel Ritchie 13 Colonel Walker 2 Colonel Well’s Battalion 30 Colorado Battery 43 Commanches 43 Company A, 12th Kansas Infantry 20 Company A, 13th Kansas Infantry 20, 52 Company A, 14th Kansas Cavalry 52 Company A, 1st Arkansas Infantry 52 Company A, 1st Kansas Colored 46 Company A, 4th Arkansas Infantry 20, 41, 46 Company A, 6th Kansas 53 Company A, 6th Kansas Cavalry 53 Company B, 12th Kansas Infantry 46 Company B, 14th Kansas Cavalry 20 Company B, 2nd Kansas Cavalry 46, 52 Company B, 6th Kansas Cavalry 30, 52, 57 Company B, 9th Kansas Cavalry, 13th 41 Company C, 14th Kansas Cavalry 41 Company C, 18th Iowa 46 Company D 9th Kansas Cavalry 41 Company D, 11th U S Colored 46 Company D, 13th Kansas Infantry 41, 46 Company D, 14th Kansas Cavalry 41, 52 Company D, 1st Arkansas Infantry 41, 57 Company D, 1st Kansas Colored Infantry 57 Company D, 2nd Kansas Cavalry 20, 46, 53 Company D, 6th Kansas Cavalry 20, 30, 46 Company E, 11th U S Colored 46 Company E, 12th Kansas Infantry 46 Company E, 13th Illinois Cavalry 32 Company E, 13th Kansas Infantry 20 Company E, 14th Kansas Cavalry 20 Company E, 18th Iowa Infantry 52 Company E, 2nd Kansas Cavalry 20 Company E, 2nd Kansas Colored Infantry 57 Company E, 6th Kansas Cavalry 30, 41, 46 Company F, 12 Kansas Infantry 46 Company F, 14th Kansas Cavalry 19 Company F, 14th Kansas Cavalry 1st 41 Company F, 18th Iowa Infantry 57 Company F, 1st Kansas Colored 46 Company F, 54th U S Colored 46 Company G, 14th Kansas Cavalry 20, 41 Company G, 18th Iowa 52 Company G, 1st Arkansas Infantry 57 Company G, 1st Kansas Colored 46 Company G, 2nd Kansas Cavalry 20, 46 Company G, 6th Kansas Cavalry 46 Company H 2nd Kansas Colored 46 Company H, 13th Kansas Infantry 23 Company H, 14th Kansas Cavalry 20, 46, 48 Company H, 1st Colorado 20 Company H, 2nd Kansas Cavalry 45, 47, 52 Company H, 6th Kansas Cavalry 20, 30 Company H, 9th Kansas Infantry 41 Company I 13th Kansas Infantry 41 Company I, 12th Kansas Infantry 41, 46, 52 Company I, 14th Kansas Cavalry 20 Company I, 14th Kansas Volunteers 48 Company I, 18th Iowa Infantry 41 Company I, 1st Arkansas Cavalry 3 Company I, 1st Arkansas Infantry 52 Company I, 1st Kansas Colored 46 Company I, 2nd Kansas Colored 46 Company I, 4th Kansas Cavalry 20 Company I, 6th Kansas Cavalry 6, 30 Company I, 9th Kansas 1 Company I, 9th Kansas Cavalry 1, 41 Company K 1st Arkansas Infantry 52 Company K, 12 Kansas Infantry 46 Company K, 12th Kansas Infantry 46 Company K, 14th Kansas Cavalry 20, 41 Company K, 1st Arkansas Cavalry 20 Company K, 1st Arkansas Infantry 52 Company K, 2nd Kansas Cavalry 26 Company L, 2nd Kansas Cavalry 46 Company L, 6th Kansas Cavalry 30 Company L, 9th Kansas Cavalry 41 Company M, 6th Kansas 8 Company M, 6th Kansas Cavalry 41 Company M, 9th Kansas Cavalry 20, 41 Company M, 9th Kansas Infantry 20 Compton, Thomas 57 Confederate Army 33 Confederate Officer 35 Confederate Surgeons 36 Cook, E H 20 Cooper’s Brigade 30 Copeland, A J 31, 33 Copelin, Martin 52 Coulter, George 45 Courton, John W 20 Crepps, S S 12 Crockman, James 44 Cross, Samuel K 45 Crow, John A 57 Culberson, S 41 Cushenbury, H 46 D Dalton, John F 32 Daly, Thomas 18 Dell, Mr. 23, 48, 55 Dell, V 29 Des Moines County, Iowa 44 Dickason, A 46 Dilday, James 53 Dildy, James 52 Dillon, John S 49 District Provost Marshal 25 Dokesville 2 Doniphan County, Kansas 5 Douglas, Father 24 Dragoo, George 20 Drinkard, C 1 Dunlap, Captain O T 43 Durbin, Greene 51 Duval’s Bluff 23, 27 Dyer, Sidney 19 Dysentery 52 E Eagle Pass, Texas 2 Earickson, James H 20 Easton, Kansas 44 Edgar, Joshua 52 Edwards, Allen W 44 Edwards, John 57 Edwards, Talbot O 44 El Paso, TX 2 Ely, W B 6 Erysipelas 4 ESCAPE OF LIEUTENANT HAYES 13 Etchison, W 41 EXECUTION OF THE BUSHWHACKERS 33 F Fadden, Clay M 20 FATAL ACCIDENT 53 Fayetteville, Arkansas 19, 26, 33, 58 Fed’s Cavalry Boots 1 Federal Army 7 Federal Soldiers 13, 31, 33 Federal Union 24 Filligan, Judge 7 Finlan, Dr. 36 FIRST KANSAS COLORED 23 Fish, R M 44 FLAG OF TRUCE 55 Folks, Isaiah 20 Folsom’s and Walker’s Regiments of Choctaws 30 Forage Train 8 Ford, M 41 Fort Gibson, Indian Territory 12, 13 Fort Larned 43 Fort Larned, Kansas 43 Fort Scott, Kansas 48, 56 FORT SMITH HOSPITAL 3 Fort Smith Rebels 38 Foster, C G 47 Fountain, H 46 FOURTH OF JULY AT FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS 23 Fox, R 41 Fox, Wm 53 Francis, T 46 Francis, Thomas 31 Franklin County 1 Frazier, George 53 FROM TEXAS 2, 53 FROM WHITE RIVER 27 Fuller, Wm S 16 Fyffe, Benjamin 48 G Gardner, Enos 44 Gear, A W 52 General Blunt 57, 58 General Curtis 58 General Ewing 58 General Fagan’s Cavalry 13 General Gano 30 General Herron 57, 58 General Hospital, Fort Smith, Arkansas 52 General Price 37 General Shelby 28 General Sherman 53 General Washbourne 29 Gentry, A M 44 Gerster, Captain A 40 Gibbons, Wm C 12 Gibbs, H C 16 Gillis, Wm 20 Goodrich, Edward 47 Goodrich, Ellen 47 Goodrich, John G 47 Graham, John B 53 Graton, John B 11 Greene, W D 32 Greenwood, Arkansas 13 GREETING TO GENERAL BLUNT 57 Griffin, Thomas H 31 Guerrilla 21 Guerrillas 5, 18, 45 Gunboat Fawn 27, 28 Gunboat Naumkeag 27, 28 Gunboat Queen City 27 Gunboat Tyler 27, 28 Gunther, W 46 H Hackworth, R M 16 Haggard, Alf M 16 Haight, H 41 Haines, Lieutenant 8 Hale, Albert 17 Hale, J M 46 Hall, D L 41 Hall, George 57 Halliwell, Mary Emma 55 Halliwell, Mrs. C E 55 Hanford, George 52 Hannon, John 53 Hardishell, David W 53 Hare, Wm 54 Harris, George L 30 Harris, R L 12 Harvey, Frank 46 Harvey, Wm 16 Hayes, John 13 HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF THE FRONTIER, DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS 25 HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF THE FRONTIER, DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS, Fort Smith, Ark. 5 HEADQUARTERS, ENROLLED MILITA 50 Helena, Arkansas 27 Henderson, Lieutenant 8 Hendry, John 49 Hendshaw, Private Alonzo 10 Hewes, John N 59 Hill, G N 46 Hill, George H 17 Hinton, Marion 31 Hirsch, Henry 45, 47 HISTORY OF ARKANSAS REGIMENTS 2 Hitchcock, B 11 Hodges, Charles A 53 Hover, L W 24 Hoyt, Patterson 16 Hunt, H 16 Hutchins, Joel G 30 Hutchinson, S W 20 Hutchison,Chaplain 5 I Indian Goods 12 Indians 19, 43, 44, 45, 52 INIAN WAR ON THE PLAINS 43 INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF THE FATE OF OUR WOUNDED AND PRISONERS DOWN SOUTH 35 Iowa 18th 10, 11 J Jack County, Texas 2 Jackson County, Missouri 26 Jackson, Calvin R 31 Jackson, Jack 41 Jenkin’s Ferry 15, 37 Jenkins Ferry 13, 14 Jenkins’ Ferry 15 Jennison, S H 16 Johnson, C 41 Johnson, J P 16 Johnson, John 16 Johnson, Wm S 20 Jones, B G 12 Jones, J 41 Judson, C O 25 Judson, Captain C O 25, 34, 49 Judson, Colonel W R 38 K Kansas City Journal 45 Kansas Colored Volunteers 12 Kennedy, Allen 52 Kennedy, Charles 53 King, E W 6 Kingsley, George 54 Kiowa Chief, Satank 43 Kiowa Lodges 43 Kiowas 43 Knox, Benjamin F 16 Kossuth, Des Moines County, Iowa 44 L Lamb, John 16 Lamb, L J 52 Landers, Thomas B 30 Lanesport, Arkansas 18 Lassel, James 44 Laster, J T 53 Lawrence, Kansas 26 Leard, Rev. J H 47 Lease, T 41 Leavenworth Times 43 Leavenworth, Kansas 44 Lee, F D 16 Lieutenant Sinks 14 Lincoln, Thomas 46 LIST OF DEATHS IN THE GENERAL HOSPITAL AT FORT SMITH, ARK., FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST 1864 46 LIST OF KILLED, WOUNDED, AND MISSING, OF THE 18TH IOWA INFANTRY, IN THE ENGAGEMENT OF APRIL 8TH, 1864, AT POISON SPRINGS, ARKANSAS 15 LIST OF MORTALITY IN GENERAL HOSPITAL, FORT SMITH, ARK., FOR THE MONTH OF JULY 40 LIST OF MORTALITY IN THE HOSPITALS AT THIS PLACE DURING THE MONTH OF JUNE 19 Little Rock Road 51 Looman, J N 47 Looman, John 55 Looscan’s Battalion of Texans 31 Lucas, Robert 44 M Macy, E Q 11 Major General Curtis 43 Marks, John 41 Marks’ Mills 15 Marmaduke 58 Marshall, Warren S 16 Martin, Byron B 17 Mason, Mrs. 55 Maxwell, J S 46 Mayberry, Scott 25 Mazard Prairie 30 Mazzard Prairie 40 McAfee, Rev. J B 17, 42 McBuxton, John 20 McCauley, George M 16 McCauley, Thomas C 30 McClain, W C 52 McClain, Wm A 16 McConnel, I 41 McCord, Andrew 57 McCord’s Regiment 2 McCune, D 41 McDonald & Fuller 12, 33 McDonald and Fuller 56 McDonald, Wm 20 McDowell, Wm 16 McKay Salt Works 13 McKee, Robert 44 McKenzie, Patrick 18 McLane, James 45 McShane, Robert 53 McWilliams, Rev. G C 7 Memphis Bulletin 18 Memphis, Tennessee 29 Michael, Charles A 16 Milam, C J 16 Military Commission 31 Miller, George W 16 Milor, Charles 24 Milor, V V 24 Mississippi River 5 Missouri Troops 15 Mitchell, R F 20 Montague County, Texas 54 More, Thomas H 15 Morris, B B 16 Mounce, J S Mounce 31 Moyis, Henry 20 Myers, H C 16 N NARROW ESCAPE 32 National Salute 22, 23 Newman, George 20 Newton County 17 Niles, Alonzo A 16 Nix, N T 2 Nolen, Thomas O 16 Northwestern States 42 Norton, Daniel 55 Norwood, John 31, 33, 34 O OFFICIAL REPORT OF MAJOR R G WARD, COMMANDING 1ST KANSAS COLORED VOLUNTEERS AT THE BATTLE OF POISON SPRINGS 8 Orwan, Frederick 49 Ottille, C 36 Overdier, John 12 Overland Mail 59 Ozark, Arkansas 7 P Paden, A 17 Paden, Thomas 17 Paine, James G 52 PAP PRICE’S RAID 58 Parker, E S 31 Parker, John G 30 Parmentier, E 16 Parson’s Regiment 2 Pate, W 46 Patten, Mrs. E 5 Pawnee Fork 43 Payne, John 53 Pearl, Mr. 1, 18, 19 Pearson, Wm H 16 Phillips, John 31 Picket Guard 12 PICKETS DRIVEN IN 45 Pickett, Newton 20 Pike, Albert 59 Pine Bluff, Arkansas 15 Pipkin, Haley D 45 Platte Valley 27 Plymate, B Y 16 Pneumonia 52 Pooler, H 20 Pooler, O P 16 Pope County 3 Porter, John 46 Portvine, Israel 57 Post at Van Buren, Arkansas 23 Post Guard House 57 Potato Hill 1, 18 Poteau Bottoms 38 Poteau River 31 Poush, V V 17 Prairie D’Anne Fight 8 Price, Benjamin 46 Princeton, Arkansas 13 Pritchett, D 41 Provost Marshal 17, 34 Provost Marshal, Springfield, Missouri 26 Q Quantrell 45 Quayle, Major 2 R Rabb’s Battery 8 Rainey, W 46 Ralph, J A 16 REBEL ATTACK ON OUR OUTPOSTS 30 Rebel General Shelby 27 Rebel Lines 3 Rebel Medical Director 14 Rebel Pickets 19 Rebel Prisoners 28 Rebel Skirmishers 38 Rebs 13 Reckey, J T 41 RED HAIRED INDIANS 44 Red River 39 Redding, Wm 44 Reed, Mason H 20 Refugee Office on Garrison Avenue 49 REFUGEES GOING NORTH 40 Reneau, Russell 7 REPORT OF THE MORTALITY 52 RETURN OF LIEUTENANT SINKS 14 RETURNED FROM CAPTIVITY 40 Rhoton, J 46 Rice, Marshal 30 Richardson, Miss Mary E 45 Rickabaugh, John G 16 Riley, H 41 Riley, Robert 16 Rinker, George W 31 Ritchie, Albert H 30 Roark, D 41 Roberson, J 46 Roberts, John 20 Robertson, Frank 16 Rock Creek 38 Rogers & Judson 6 Rogers, Burt 21 Root, William 52 Roseman, James 19 Roseville, Arkansas 18 Rowden, James 31 Rowden, James H 33 Rust, George W 54 S Saline River 13, 14, 35 Sampson, Lewis 44 Samuels, Joseph B 11 Saxton, John H 16 Scarlet, George 46 Scott, James 16 Searle, Colonel E J 25 Sebastian County, Arkansas 59 Sheriff of Sebastian County 24 Sherman, E 46 Shreveport, La. 2 Slinger, Captain David 32 Slinker, W W 48 Smallwood, William H 11 Smallwood, Wm H 5 Smith, Anthony 52 Smith, B F 17 Smith, Edmond S 20 Smith, J F 16 Smith, Kirby 15 Smith, Miss Carrie 45 Smith, Wesley 46 Smith, William A 57 Smoot, J R 24 Soldiers of the Frontier Division 33 Sorax, J 46 Sparks, Mitchell 59 Speaks, Simpson 53 Spore, George W 20 Springer, Francis 33, 59 Springer, Rev. Francis 24, 45, 49 St. Charles Hospital, Fort Smith Arkansas 20 St. Charles Hospital, Fort Smith, Arkansas 21, 52 St. Clair, Levi 52 Stacy, Seldon H 16 Stanly, John 16 Stark, C W 16 STEAMBOAT CAPTURED 12 Steamboat Landing 29 Steamer Admiral Hines 7 Steamer Alamo 7, 29 Steamer Annie Jacobs 29 Steamer Ben Coursen 7 Steamer Carrie Jacobs 7, 13 Steamer Chippaway 29 Steamer Chippewa 7 Steamer Des Moines City 7 Steamer Gladiator 28 Steamer Platte Valley 27, 28 Steamer Sunny South 7, 29 Steamer Williams 12 Steele, General F 32 Stenett, Andrew J 57 Steward, Lee 6 Stith, Peter J 53 Stitt, J B 52 Stockton, Captain 6 Stone, Francis M 15 Stuckslager, Dr. 14, 36, 37, 56 Stuckslager, Dr. C R 35 Sugar Loaf Mountain 19 Sugar Loaf Valley 19 Surgeon Finlan 36 Sutler Train from Fayetteville 6 Swasey, Charles E 56 Swasey, Dr. 3 Swift, Ann 32 Swift, C P 48 Swift, Cromwell P 32 Swift, Ella Brook 32 Swindell, Randall D 59 T Tate, S 46 Tetrick, Peter 20 Texas Refugees 55 Texas Road 45 Thayer, J M 25 Thayer, John M, Brigadier General 5 THE EXECUTION 31 THE EXODUS IN ARKANSAS 38 THE FOURTH 21 THE REFUGEE TRAIN 42 Thomas, G 3 Throckmorton, Brigadier General 2 Tipton, A L 54 Tipton, Wm 20 Tittsworth, Randolph 19 Topping, John 11 Trading Permit 29 Trans-Mississippi District 39 Trent, W 41 Trewhitt, John 52 TROOPS PAID OFF 29 Troy, Bradford County, Pennsylvania 49 Tucker, J B 46 Turner, Isam 52 Tyler, Texas 13, 36, 55 Typhoid Fever 52 Typhoid Fever. 52 U U S General Hospital, Fort Smith,Arkansas 56 Union Army 39 V Van Buren, Arkansas 17, 19, 26, 32, 45, 55 Van Dorn, Henry 16 Van Wormer, David 30 Vance, G W 46 Variola 52 Vaughan, Elirid 20 Vaughn, Joel 20 Volumby, Charles 53 Vore, J E 16 W Waddle, Y D 49 Wakefield, Elihu 16 Walker, A M 46, 48 Walker, E T 59 Walker, Thomas 16 Wallace, Benjamin J 31 Wallace, David 53 Walnut Creek, Kansas 43 Walsh, Maurice S 21 Walton, Mrs. 49 Ward, R G 12 Ward, Wm 16 Warner, A 16 Washington County 59 Washington Road 8 Waterman, Dr. 8 Waters, Seraphine Elizabeth 54 Waters, W A 54 Watson, Wm D 16 Wear, Reuben 53 Webber’s Falls, Indian Territory 12, 58 Weddell, Wm 44 Wegman, C 47 Wegman, Christopher 47 Welch, B W 11 Weldon Railroad 48 Weldon, James 31 Western Arkansas 7, 24 Western Frontier 2 Wetherford, Miss Amanda 47 Wheeler, John C 1 Wherlock, J C 46 Whetstine, R S 16 White Oak Creek 8 White River 27, 28 Whiteford, John 21 Whitwing, Jacob 20 Wilkinson, Wm D 16 Williams, Colonel J M 8 Williams, G W 48 Williams, John 16 Wilson, Harry 45 Wilson, John T 20 Wilson, Wm 1 Winkle, Isaac 20 Wolfe, F H 21 Wolfe, Francis H 23 Wolfinger, Shedwick 52 Worthington, L 47 Wright, George W 15 Y Yeager, Dick 26 Young, John 16 Young, Mrs. E A 5 Young, W S 16 Z Zentz, J B 30 Ziler, George 53 Fran Alverson Warren e-mail: [email protected] 479-369-2703 http://www.crawfordcountyarkansas.net/

I am looking for an obit of James Maxwell, died January 18, 1914 in Jenny Lind, Sebastian Co, Arkansas. I am just about blue in the face trying to find some information. Is anyone aware of places I can look. Thank you, Judy Peters

I am needing someone to look up a divorce for me, in Clay Co. or Craighead Co. Arkansas. The names are Ira Taylor and Martha Troutman married, Jan. 27, 1904, divorced, before Sept. 11, 1909 this date is when Martha remarried a Wil T. Turner Sandy Petty from Illinois

Hi, listers: I'm in the process of getting street maps of 1930 Little Rock, AR. Of course, I went to mapquest.com and put in the street addresses I have for 1930 city directory. That worked until I finally found a street address which is not currently there - of course! Where can I go to access a street map (hopefully) of Little Rock, especially interested in Rock Street. I really don't know whether it's "street", because actually there was nothing but "Rock" for the address. Trying to find out boundaries of the street address to gain access to the right Enumeration District for 1930 census. thanks for any help. Cyrille ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.

I am descended from Webb's in Grant and Howard County. My great-grandmother Webb had a brother named 'John' who was born about 1838. Could this be the same man? Also, the Webb mailing list has been an incredible help for me. You might want to subscribe there also. Check here: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/w/webb.html Rebecca >Hi, > trying to find someone who could do a look up for me on obit of John > T. Webb died July 15, 1914 . He lived in Pea Ridge and is buried inPea > Ridge Cemetery,, Benton county , Ark >I have his wife's obit she died 1914 and here is her obit on give's where >they lived also looking for obit of his daughter Maude Webb Cavness she >died Aug 29, 1970 she is buried in Bentonville cemetery. Help on these >obits is greatly appreacited. > Obit for Leona Webb >Webb, Leona Mann-Mrs. Leona Webb, wife of J. T. Webb, died Sunday of >pneumonia. Funeral services were held at Pea Ridge a 5 oclock. The >family had lived for a time on White River and at Larue, where Mr Webb >conducted a . store. A short time ago he traded his store for the farm >of M. H. Pittallo at Canuck and Mrs. Webb was taken ill the night they >moved into their new home. Mrs. Webb, whose maiden name was Mann was >born in this county in April l868, and had lived here all her life. She >leaves husband and 4 children to mourn her untimely departure. The >deceased was a cousin of J. F. and W. A Walker and Earle Hardy of this >city and a niece of Will Hammond. A sister, Mrs. Nona Holmes of >Galconda, IL, was called here by Mrs. Webb's illness. It was the first >time the sisters had seen each other for more than 20 years. Mrs.Webb >awas very popular and her death is a great blow to friends and relatives. >(Rogers Democrat 2-15-12) _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com

I'm trying to find a divorce or annulment record for John McGILL and Lois Ellen Grisham McGILL (or Lois Ellender Grisham McGILL). They married in Hot Spring AR in 1929 and separated probably some time in 1930 but I don't have a date. She married again in February 1932, to Jacob Finley Siratt; so her divorce or annulment had to have taken place before that. I have no statistics on John McGill, other than he was about 24 years old in 1929. But Lois was born Jan 9, 1916 in the Glazier Peau area. I'm also interested in any births to John McGill and Lois Grisham in 1930 or 1931. I have a photo of them together during their marriage in which she appears to be pregnant. Lois died on August 15, 2002. I'm trying to collect all of her history I can find for a book I'm writing about her life. Thanks in advance for any help. Beverly Siratt Scofield [email protected]

Cyrille, Brashear may be the most misspelled surname. The first person with that name was Benjamin Brashear. He used the English version of his first name and anglicized his French surname so it would be pronounced properly. That was when he became a citizen of Maryland in 1663. When his widow died the name was spelled three different ways in her will. I have seen almost 50 (mis)spellings of the name. Sometimes there are several spellings for the same person. I suspect that illiteracy plus clerks attempting to spell it caused that. Have fun chasing names like that. Joe George Cyrille D Doutherd wrote: > Hi folks: > > I'm curious about something. When we as family historians research our > given surnames, how many of us have been puzzled and surprised at the > differences between the spelling in the 1800's or further and the > spelling of today with our modern spelling rules. > > I would love to hear stories about surprises in the spelling of our > respective surnames. I guess the most common story is that illiteracy > was rampant, and given some of the more multi-syllabic names from Europe > and right here in the USA, some names were simplified and Americanized, > etc. > > I asked a cousin once in trying to decipher our name in the 1870's and > 1880's (via soundex in the latter), did she ever wonder if > DAUGHERTY/DOUGHERTY, and all of its vast varieites of spelling, was a > probable surname that we are not paying attention to. We haven't really > had a reason to go tramping over the path of this particular surname in > researching, and I wondered if that was a mistake. > > My cousin sighed and said, "Yes, . . . I've thought of that." However, I > could tell that was too arduous a task to even contemplate, let alone go > in search of. > > Love to hear other reasons & other stories of the surname search and the > delightful and unexpected surprises found as a family historian. > > Call me curious, > Cyrille > > ==== AGS Mailing List ==== > Please do not forward or cross post messages to this list or from this list without the permission of the original author.

Hi, trying to find someone who could do a look up for me on obit of John T. Webb died July 15, 1914 . He lived in Pea Ridge and is buried inPea Ridge Cemetery,, Benton county , Ark I have his wife's obit she died 1914 and here is her obit on give's where they lived also looking for obit of his daughter Maude Webb Cavness she died Aug 29, 1970 she is buried in Bentonville cemetery. Help on these obits is greatly appreacited. Obit for Leona Webb Webb, Leona Mann-Mrs. Leona Webb, wife of J. T. Webb, died Sunday of pneumonia. Funeral services were held at Pea Ridge a 5 oclock. The family had lived for a time on White River and at Larue, where Mr Webb conducted a . store. A short time ago he traded his store for the farm of M. H. Pittallo at Canuck and Mrs. Webb was taken ill the night they moved into their new home. Mrs. Webb, whose maiden name was Mann was born in this county in April l868, and had lived here all her life. She leaves husband and 4 children to mourn her untimely departure. The deceased was a cousin of J. F. and W. A Walker and Earle Hardy of this city and a niece of Will Hammond. A sister, Mrs. Nona Holmes of Galconda, IL, was called here by Mrs. Webb's illness. It was the first time the sisters had seen each other for more than 20 years. Mrs.Webb awas very popular and her death is a great blow to friends and relatives. (Rogers Democrat 2-15-12)

Hi folks: I'm curious about something. When we as family historians research our given surnames, how many of us have been puzzled and surprised at the differences between the spelling in the 1800's or further and the spelling of today with our modern spelling rules. I would love to hear stories about surprises in the spelling of our respective surnames. I guess the most common story is that illiteracy was rampant, and given some of the more multi-syllabic names from Europe and right here in the USA, some names were simplified and Americanized, etc. I asked a cousin once in trying to decipher our name in the 1870's and 1880's (via soundex in the latter), did she ever wonder if DAUGHERTY/DOUGHERTY, and all of its vast varieites of spelling, was a probable surname that we are not paying attention to. We haven't really had a reason to go tramping over the path of this particular surname in researching, and I wondered if that was a mistake. My cousin sighed and said, "Yes, . . . I've thought of that." However, I could tell that was too arduous a task to even contemplate, let alone go in search of. Love to hear other reasons & other stories of the surname search and the delightful and unexpected surprises found as a family historian. Call me curious, Cyrille

Martha Green b. 1827 married Iredell 'Irdle' D. Choate in 1843 Macon County, N.C., Family came in to Arkansas. Looking for parents and siblings of Martha Green.

Hi Dena and the list! I have sent off to DC for several land patent documents from the 1800's. Some were so helpful. Gave me copies of the news article requirement, original handwriting of the patentee, their family status at the time, number of children, how long they had lived there, witness testimony was sometimes other relatives, which gave me their residence at the time. The ones that were not any more helpful than the info you and I already had appeared to me to be the ones that did not get pursued to the issue of the final patent. This process apparently takes many years to complete until the land title is really clear to the patentee. It took mine about 4 mos to arrive after I waited several days to weeks for the special form from NARA it requires. The written apology for the long wait was related to the mail scrutiny in DC since 9-11. Hope this helps. Carolyn FLOWERS Tucker

I've been reading the subject of Dena and her quest to get beyond the "brick wall" of 1860 to find her ancestors, who were slaves. I'd like to know how I can start getting some back info. The only family ancestors I can find in Little Rock, AR, in 1870, are the family of WOOD. James Allen WOOD and wife Martha WOOD (my ggrandmother). J. Allen's stepdaughter was listed as a daughter -- her name was Janetta MOORE, but she was listed with her stepfather's surname. Another child, J. Allen's son, is William WOOD. I probably need to go back and try to find neighbors that may be familiar to me. I cannot find my DOUTHARD (spelling could be anything at this point), in the 1870 African-American Index CD. I am checking out the possibility that my DOUTHARD folks were in another state like TN, for instance. The Tax information, where can I scope that out on line? Anyone know? Thanks, Cyrille Doutherd ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.

Good Evening All!! A very *Special* Genie sent me some information last night and, I would like to know if this information required some sort of application that had to be filled out before the deed was issued? GREEN, William H. Document #: 12453 Description #: 1 Number of Acres: 80.0000 Accession #: AR0240_.012 Patentee Surname: Green Patentee Given name: William H. State Address: Arkansas Volume: 240, Pg. 12 Land Office: Little Rock Aliquot Part reference: W1/2NW Section #:15 Township: 9 South Range: 7 West Meridian or Special Survey Area: Fifth Principal Meridian Title Transfer Authority: Sale Cash Entree Combined Signature Date: Oct. 1, 1860 Multiple Patenees: N Multiple Warrentees: N Signature: Y Canceled Documents: N Surface rights reserved: N Fractional Section: N My questions is, with this information, would more questions asked? Like, where were you born? Any family? Could information on this document lead me to tax records? If I ordered this document, would I still have the same information that I have now? Thanks All! -Dena-

Hi Melissa and List, I have started a time line (OK...I just started last night), it's very interesting, I even have my daughter helping me. The *most* interesting thing to me is the fact that my family are the only 'GREENS' in Clay Township, Bradley County, AR. You know how you see a 'group' of family names, living next door or down the road a piece (that's how my Grandmother use to say it), well, we are all alone. I'll probably never figure out what made them move to Clay Township by 1870. I know that my GG Grandmother's sister, Pricilla (AKA Puss) married her next door neighbor, William Childs, but the Childs family was in Bradley County in the 1860s. Also, I could have my *time* incorrect. As I look at the 1866 Freedman's Bureau Records, I notice that Puss and Victor (real name is Victoria) are both 8 years old. Puss was born in S. Carolina and Victoria was born in Arkansas. In 1870 Puss is 17, and Victoria is still 8..what's up with those figures? I was basing my year of arrival to Arkansas on Victoria and Puss's age, 1857-58, could be that they weren't even there until 1860 or 61, after W. H. Green purchased his land. I misplaced the 'tax information' that Michelle sent me. She said William H. Green paid taxes on (don't quote me Michelle if your reading this message) 8 slaves. This was in Drew County also. I tell you, it pays to keep information folks take their time out to send you. Everything matters, if people take the time to send it...keep it, you never know. I will let you know about my time line this weekend! Thanks for the Advice! Dena.

Hi All, well...your advice has *all* been printed and I am very thankful. Melissa, Ed and Ann..Loved Your Advice!! I will start writing down what I have, where I obtained the information, and what I need. Will let you know as soon as I'm finished (going to work on it now)!. -Dena-

In a message dated 10/2/02 2:00:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << what would your next move be? Who would you write? What would you ask for? What would you do? (To the newbies..I am (trying) to research records of W.H. (AKA William) Green, year 1860, county where land papers are registers was Drew.) >> The 1850 and 1860 Federal census schedules also had seperate slave schedules. Dan

Question?.? How and where does one start to search Probate Records? Do you start with county/year or by surname/year? How?? -Dena-

OK list..*EVERYBODY* here is African-American...you have traced back to 1866, the Freedman's Bureau Records..You have discovered 'who' your surname has come from, but..there is NO record of your surname giver on the Arkansas records. He has land there, but, you haven't a clue as to where he has come from. Seem's he purchased land in Arkansas, but didn't live there, paid taxes there, his workers worked there, but "he" didn't live there. Your family has come from S. Carolina, by way of Mississippi (one of my GG Grandmother's sister's was sold there while enroute to Arkansas), they settled near Star City (now named), but when they first arrived, it was to territory, could have been Drew, Lincoln, but definitely not Bradley. Back to the elusive Mr. Green who my family took their surname from. There are 5 on Ancestry.Com, one in 1860 from S. Carolina who could have been the possible last enslaver of your family. Well, as my hair falls from my scalp to the floor under my computer (as yours should be doing because this is your family also), what would your next move be? Who would you write? What would you ask for? What would you do? (To the newbies..I am (trying) to research records of W.H. (AKA William) Green, year 1860, county where land papers are registers was Drew.) Thanks Family! Dena.