I though this was interesting. It was posted on the Scott County line. Do you recognize any of these names? > The following is a partial listing of men who joined the First Arkansas > Union Infantry at Jenny Lind (or Fort Smith) on 1 Sept 1863, after the > Battle of Devils Backbone. Both Union and CSA records agree that a large > number of Union sympathizers (some sources say under a death sentence) along > with their guards broke and ran to the Union lines during this engagement > and many of them joined the Union Army that day. I am testing the theory > that many of those named below were among those men. > > I have identified about 20% of these men as being from northern Scott County > (including the area now in Logan) and others were apparently from extreme > eastern Sebastian County. Most of them are completely unknown to me. If > anyone recognizes any of these soldiers and can provide any information > about where they lived and or why they joined the Union Army, I would > appreciate the information. > > There was also another wave of enrollments the following month (they are not > named here), some of whom were members of (or neighbors to) some of the > listed families. Many of them had first been in the CSA. Were they the > guards? > > Thanks, John Dill johndill@ipa.net > > William Ake > Edward Barbee > Right Beakley > Josiah Beasley > Elisha Blankenship > William Bradley > Andrew J. Brison > Jessie Brooks > George W. Brown > John T. Brunk > George Byrum > James Byrum > John M. Byrum > William Byrum > Washington W. Cacy > Robert D. Carnahan > Reuben Clark > Albert W. Coffee > Lewis F. Cole > William Comestock > Thomas Compton > William Y. Corley > James Corley > Joseph M. Dawson > John Dill > Wesley Dill > William Dill > Walter Downing > James Edmonds > James W. Edwards > James F. Ellis > William Fisher > John H. Goff > William Grayson > John Hathcock > John Hixon > William Hunter > Dennis Johnson > Francis M. Kelsey > Levi Kelsey > James Kennedy > George W. Kersey > Thomas Kersey > Rhoderick Kettridge > William King > William Land > Samuel Larimore > Francis Lee > John Light > James Little > John Little > Richard Lollis > Gilbert Looman > Henry Looman > Joel Looman > Alfred Lovett > Hugh Mackey > William Manley > Miner Martin > Andrew Mathews > James Mathews > Lefford Mathews > Webster McCaslin > William McGuirk > John Moore > John Nevels > Lycurgus Nixon > Marion Norton > John Obar > Lewis Palmer > Micajah Parker > Isaac Pitts > John Powell > William Powell > 'William Ramsey > James Raney > William Rankins > Mathew Reed > John Ridge > Presley Riggs > John Robinson > Francis See > William Sigerson > Alexander Sling > Elihue Smith > Jenry Smith > John Smith > Mchenry Smith > William Strickland > Michael Stroope > Joel Talkington > William Taylor > Wesley Trent > John Tyner > Abraham Waddle > Henry Waldrop > James Walker > Alfred Wallace > James Watson > Francis Westmoreland > William Westmoreland > John S. Williams > William Wood > Abraham Woodward > James Word > Thomas Yaden > > > Carolyn (Parsons) Smedley angelears@alltel.net ======================== Volunteer for Rootsweb.com, (ODT- Obituary Daily Times, Tombstone Projects, and Sebastian County Line Obituaries ============================================================= SURNAMES: Brummitt, Clark, DeHart, Eslinger,Francisco, Hereford, Mincher, Parsons, Smedley, Taylor ================================================