Joy here, I found the little book Battle Of Pea Ridge, March 7 & 8, 1862 There is a list of Confederate Soldiers taken from Pension records, also the Roster of Stand Watie's Cherokee Brigade. I doubt the lists are complete but if you're looking for a particular person I'll see if he is listed. -j- ----- Original Message ----- From: Harold Miller <[email protected]>To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 1999 9:50 AM Subject: Civil War in Arkansas > My favorite subject, 1860-1865 in Northwest Arkansas.... > > For example: > There was a group of people centered around Searcy County Arkansas, but > think some men from Van Buren County and other nearby counties with family > ties to Searcy County were included. They formed a secret society called > Peace Society. When the vote was taken to leave or stay with the > Union....NW Arkansas voted to stay. Kind of like part of Virginia which > became West Virginia. (for some reason, it seems to me many of the areas in > mountains, TN, KY, NC, etc at first wanted to stay in the Union). When the > vote finally went for AR to leave Union, the governor of Arkansas sent army > up to Searcy County to round up this Peace Society. They had a dawn raid, > caught a lot of them, chained them two by two with heavy logging > chains....thus they were called the chain gang. Marched them to Little > Rock. Special session was called with Governor in charge, told the men to > either join CSA or be shot.....so they all joined. This is such an > interesting story what happened to those men. Some stayed in CSA and were > killed, one was a Turney killed at Pea Ridge, one Turney from chain gang > made it home. Others as soon as possible escaped from CSA and joined USA. > Boman Turney before the battle of Shiloh, told his relative who was with > him, that he was going to try to escape during the battle. After the > battle, his relatives found him shot in the back of the head. The CSA said > he had gotten shot running from the battle as a coward. His family always > felt he had been shot by CSA trying to run to Union lines. > > A good book on Peace Society > YELLAR RAG BOYS > also think there is a list of members on Searcy Co Ar genweb page. > > now go back a few years to ca 1840 > I will say it again. > find these little towns on Arkansas map > Higden in Cleburne County (near Heber Springs) (was Van Buren till 1880s) > Snowball in Searcy County (find Leslie and go north, little west) > Crooked Creek or Bellefonte in Boone County (near Harrison) > now draw a line between these 3 spots....this was first migration route in > that area from 1834-1840s. You will find one Eoff in VBC, one in > CArroll/Boone. One Potter in VBC, one in Searcy County. Etc. I have > always said there needs to be a group for those first families who settled > along that line since it covers more than one county. So many people do not > realize that a first settler in Van Buren county might have had a sister who > went to Searcy County. Or one brother in one county, another further along > the line. If you are researching first families in that area, you have to > look along that line to find their relatives, and the people they lived next > to before the move to Arkansas. These people did come in groups. And one > relative would come, the next year a brother would follow. The connections > between families along this line will knock your socks off. > For example: 1820s a lot of people left area of Smith Co Tennessee (would > include what later was Cannon, Dekalb, etc). They went to Illinois, but by > 1840 or so you find them in Arkansas. Some of their neighbors and relatives > stayed in TN but moved to Arkansas in late 1830s, early 1840s.....so they > met up again. And they stayed in contact up to 1860....some of them went > off together to fight in Mexican War together. Why would a Turney from > Boone county go off with a Campbell from Searcy Co to Mexican War? Because, > the Boone Co Turney, his brother settled in Searcy Co and the Campbell had > married into that family. When you look at roster rolls for any of the wars > or little battles from 1800 - 1860, I can tell you ..... you will find your > ancestor in same unit as his cousins, his wife's family, his mother's > family....they will have different surnames, but relatives served together. > So really look at those roster sheets and check out some of the other names. > > Enough I guess. > > Mary Turney Miller [email protected] > > > ==== Southern-Trails Mailing List ==== > If someone sends a warning about an email virus or asks you to send ANY > message to everybody you know, check out these site to see if it's for real: > IBM AntiVirus Home Page > http://www.av.ibm.com > McAfee: Virus Hoaxes > http://www.mcafee.com/support/hoax.asp > or one of these sites which are very good about virus and > chainletter hoaxes or myths: > http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html > http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACChainLetters.html > http://kumite.com/myths/myths/ > >