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May 28, 2010
There is a major
Civil War marker dedication coming up this Saturday (great Memorial Day
activity) in DeValls Bluff (1 hour East of LR). This will be the first
of 5 or so Civil War signs in DeValls Bluff through the AR Dept of
Heritage in conjunction with the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War...so
its a big deal.
DeValls Bluff played a major role during the Civil War and is recognized
by experts as potentially being a significant tourist attraction for the
state, but has tragically been very neglected. The Arnold Family
Foundation (which I serve as the Exec. Dir of) is trying to change this
and I hope you can help.
Info is below (taken from the local paper).
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The Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial marker at DeValls Bluff will be
dedicated
on Saturday, May 29 at 10:00 a.m. at Rhodes Park off Highway 70 in
downtown DeValls Bluff. Representative Tiffany Rogers of Stuttgart,
Senator Bobby Glover of Carlisle, Mark Kalkbrenner, a member of the
Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission and possibly
Congresswoman Blanche Lincoln will be attending the Arkansas Civil War
observance at DeValls Bluff noting the importance of efforts at DeValls
Bluff during
the Civil War and during the Reconstruction Period. The general
public is invited
to the ceremonies conducted by Mayor Brooks Castleberry who will remark
on the contributions of DeValls Bluff during and after the Civil War
Era. The Arkansas Civil War
Sesquicentennial Commission has developed several interpretive themes
for each year of the observance of the 150th anniversary of the war
between 2011 and 2015,
Commission Chairman Tom Dupree announced recently.
Also, A few weeks ago,
I ran across a blog on Confederate Homes by Rusty Williams. His
blog is located at:
He is looking
for more stories on the Confederate Homes and will be traveling to
Arkansas here in a few months for a book signing in Little Rock.
If you are interested in a speaker for your group, now would be the time
to contact him.
His Book is
available through Kentucky Press:
http://www.kentuckypress.com/viewbook.cfm?Category_ID=1&Group=17&ID=1613
MY OLD CONFEDERATE HOME
A Respectable Place for Civil War Veterans
By Rusty Williams
Price: $34.95
Format: cloth
ISBN: 978-0-8131-2582-4
Subjects: History:American
Pages: 352
Year Published: 2010
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Illustrations: 20 photos, 3 illustrations
Discount: trade
Description:
In the wake of America's Civil War, hundreds of thousands of men who
fought for the Confederacy trudged back to their homes in the Southland.
Some-due to lingering effects from war wounds, other disabilities, or
the horrors of combat-were unable to care for themselves. Homeless,
disabled, and destitute veterans began appearing on the sidewalks of
southern cities and towns.
In 1902 Kentucky's Confederate veterans organized and built the Kentucky
Confederate Home, a luxurious refuge in Pewee Valley for their
unfortunate comrades. Until it closed in 1934, the Home was a
respectable-if not always idyllic-place where disabled and impoverished
veterans could spend their last days in comfort and free from want.
In My Old Confederate Home: A Respectable Place for Civil War Veterans,
Rusty Williams frames the lively history of the Kentucky Confederate
Home with the stories of those who built, supported, and managed it: a
daring cavalryman-turned-bank-robber, a senile ship captain, a
prosperous former madam, and a small-town clergyman whose concern for
the veterans cost him his pastorate. Each chapter is peppered with the
poignant stories of men who spent their final years as voluntary wards
of an institution that required residents to live in a manner which
reinforced the mythology of a noble Johnny Reb and a tragic Lost Cause.
Based on thorough research utilizing a range of valuable resources,
including the Kentucky Confederate Home's operational documents,
contemporary accounts, unpublished letters, and family stories, My Old
Confederate Home reveals the final, untold chapter of Kentucky's Civil
War history.
Rusty Williams, a freelance writer and historian, has written for the
Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, San Antonio Express-News
and the Associated Press.
Reviews:
"My Old Confederate Home is a good story well told."-Gaines M. Foster,
author of Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the
Emergence of the New South, 1865-1913
"Teems with humanity. Williams has a storyteller's gift for making
historical characters come alive. This well-researched account of the
establishment of a Confederate veterans' home in a state, Kentucky, that
did not even support the Confederacy is a dramatic story of a diverse
range of people who responded to the needs of Civil War veterans. It
offers a new angle on the South's Lost Cause." -Charles Reagan Wilson,
author of Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920
"His goal was not just to write about the home and its history, but to
bring life to the stories of the men who lived there."-Courier-Journal
May 26, 2010
While you are making your plans for this
weekend, please don't forget the Soldiers on Monday. Here
are a few of the services in the Central Arkansas area. I
am planning on attending Maumelle's service as I have been to
the State Veteran's cemetery. Been there, don't that and
that is all I am going to say. : ) Beautiful
Cemetery but I miss the Little Rock National Service.
GOVERNOR BEEBE TO
GIVE MEMORIAL DAY ADDRESS AT THE ARKANSAS STATE VETERANS CEMETERY
The
Arkansas Department of Veterans Affairs will present a Memorial Day
ceremony Monday, May 31, 2010 at 10:00
a.m. at the Arkansas State Veterans Cemetery, 1501
West Maryland Avenue, in North
Little Rock. Governor Mike Beebe will give the keynote address. Gene
McVay, Commander of the American Legion Department of Arkansas, will be
the Master of Ceremonies. Other participants will include the Patriot
Guard Riders, the 106th Arkansas
Army National Guard Band, and the India Co., 3rd BN,
23rd Marines Honor
Guard Firing Detail. Carl Schmidt, Fleet Reserve Association President,
will conduct the sea service portion of the ceremony.
Public parking will be available at Woody’s Sherwood Forest on Maryland
Avenue and possible overflow parking will be at the Wal-Mart on Hwy. 107
and Maryland Avenue. Handicapped parking will be available at Pulaski
Technical College Aerospace Technology Center across
from the cemetery. Busses and vans will begin transporting individuals
to the state cemetery at 9:00 a.m.
Individuals are encouraged to bring umbrellas rain-or-shine. Water will
be provided.
We
encourage the support of our veterans who have sacrificed so much. They
have stood up for our freedoms and for those around the world. Memorial
Day is a time for us to come together and honor their memory and for the
service they have given this great nation.
For more
information on this event please contact Susan King, Public Information
Specialist, at 501-992-0192 or e-mail susan.g.king@arkansas.gov.
Also:
There will be a Memorial Day service held on Sunday, May 30th in the
Bellwood Cemetery at Pine Bluff. The annual Memorial Day service will be
at 2pm and any living historian interested in participating should bring
their best Confederate uniform and three rounds of ammunition for the
three vollies to be fired following the service. Participants in the
service should be there no later than 1:30pm. Directions are: {turn left
onto University (hwy 79)from Martha Mitchell Expressway (hwy 65)} then
left onto Pullen. Take right into last cemetery entrance and follow to
back. This service is meant to honor ALL veterans of the United States
and Confederates as well.
Also:
Lake Willastein in Maumelle. 10:00 A.M. Keynote Speaker Rob Hopper
with the Arkansas Fallen Heroes Memorial, which will be on display.
<----This is the one I am going to.
May 22, 2010
The Civil War
Roundtable of Arkansas news letter for May is now up and may be
found at:
http://www.civilwarbuff.org/NewsLetters/2010/May2010.htm
Also, announcing
the following:
24TH ANNUAL DEEP DELTA CIVIL WAR SYMPOSIUM
"Conflict and Combat in the Creole State: Louisiana’s Civil War"
Saturday, June 5, War Memorial Student Union, Southeastern Louisiana
University, Hammond, Louisiana
Dedicated to the Memory of Dr Arthur W. Bergeron Jr.
Sponsored by the Center for Southeast Louisiana Studies and the
Department of History and Political Science
NEW FORMAT AND FEE
In order to continue offering a high-quality program at affordable
prices during a time of rising costs and budget cuts to higher
education, the Deep Delta Civil War Symposium will shift to a one-day
format for 2010. The admission fee includes breakfast, lunch, dinner,
and the evening social hour.
PROGRAM
8:00 Registration and Breakfast
8:30 “A Wisconsin Yankee in Confederate Bayou Country: General Halbert
Eleazer Paine” Samuel C. Hyde, Leon Ford Endowed Professor of History
and Director of the Center for Southeast Louisiana Studies, Southeastern
Louisiana University, and author of Pistols and Politics: The Dilemma of
Democracy in Louisiana’s Florida Parishes 1810-1899, and editor of A
Fierce and Fractious Frontier: The Curious Development of Louisiana’s
Florida Parishes 1699-2000 and Plain Folk of the South Revisited, among
others.
9:45 “P.G.T. Beauregard: The Soldier and the Man” Thomas E. Schott,
Independent Scholar, former Deputy Command Historian, U.S. Special
Operations Command Headquarters, MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, and
author of Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia: A Biography.
11:00 “The Pelican in Tennessee: Louisianians at Shiloh” Timothy B.
Smith, Instructor, University of Tennessee-Martin, and author of
National Military Park: Knoxville; This Great Battlefield of Shiloh:
History, Memory, and the Establishment of a Civil War; Champion Hill:
Decisive Battle for Vicksburg; The Untold Story of Shiloh: The Battle
and Battlefield; The Golden Age of Battlefield Preservation: The Decade
of the 1890s and the Establishment of America's First Five Military
Parks; and the forthcoming The Civil War in Mississippi: The Home Front.
12:00 Lunch
1:00 “Confederate Christian Warrior: Father Sheeran, 14th Louisiana
Infantry Regiment” Robert J. Miller, Pastor at St Dorothy Church
(Chicago); Adjunct Professor of Ecclesiology, Archdiocese of Chicago;
and author of Both Prayed to the Same God: Religion and Faith in the
American Civil War.
2:15 “From Wilson’s Creek to Monocacy: The Civil War Experience of the
Pierson Family of Bienville Parish” Thomas Cutrer, Professor of History,
Arizona State University, and author of Longstreet’s Aide: The Civil War
Letters of Maj. Thomas J. Goree, “Our Trust is in the God of Battles”:
The Civil War Letters of Robert F. Bunting, Chaplain, Eighth Texas
Cavalry, The Mexican War Diary and Correspondence of George B.
McClellan, and Oh, What a Lonesome Time I Had: The Civil War Letters of
Major William Moxley and Emily Moxley, among others.
3:30 “Slandered Heroes: Deserters Who Didn’t” Lawrence L. Hewitt,
Independent Scholar: Chicago, author of Port Hudson: Confederate Bastion
on the Mississippi River; The Confederate High Command and Related
Topics; Two Hundred Years A Nation; Leadership During the Civil War;
Louisianians in the Civil War; Kentuckians in Gray: Confederate Generals
and Field Officers of the Bluegrass State; Classical Essays on
Confederate Generals in the Western Theater; and Confederate Generals in
the Western Theater: Volume 1, among others.
4:45 “Networking with the Historians” an opportunity to talk informally
with the presenters.
6:00 Dinner
7:00 “A Louisiana Planter’s Views on Slavery and Secession” Charles P.
Roland, Alumni Professor Emeritus, University of Kentucky and author of
Albert Sidney Johnston: Soldier of Three Republics, An American Iliad:
The Story of the Civil War, The Confederacy, A History of the South,
History Teaches Us to Hope: Reflections on the Civil War and Southern
History, The Improbable Era: A History of the South Since World War II;
Louisiana Sugar Plantations During the Civil War, Reflections on Lee,
and My Odyssey Through History.
8:00 Social Hour
2010 HONOREE: DR ARTHUR W. BERGERON JR
Art Bergeron, a frequent presenter at the Deep Delta Civil War
Symposium, died this year. Born in Alexandria in 1946, Art graduated
from Lecompte High School, served with the U.S. Army in Vietnam, earned
the PhD at LSU under Professors T. Harry Williams and William J. Cooper,
and worked as a historian at Port Hudson State Historic Site, the
Louisiana Office of State Parks, the National Museum of the Civil War
Soldier at Petersburg, Virginia, and the U.S. Army Military History
Institute at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. He was a prolific
scholar, perhaps best known for Confederate Mobile, 1861-1865. His work
addressed both Confederates The Civil War Reminiscences of Major Silas
T. Grisamore and Unionists A Thrilling Narrative: The Memoir of a
Southern Unionist. Much of it focused on Louisiana, including Guide to
Louisiana Confederate Military Units and The Civil War in Louisiana.
Add to that a series of books co-edited with Larry Hewitt and hundreds
of articles, reviews, and presentations. His erudition, wit, and
unfailing generosity in sharing his knowledge of the Civil War with
others will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved him.
REGISTRATION
$100 before June 1, $125 after
Spouse $80 before June 1, $100 after
Child $20 before June 1, $25 after
Register on-line with a credit card at http://www.selu.edu/acad_research/depts/hist_ps/civil_war_symposium/index.html .
Or register by mail make checks payable to SLU Controller’s Office and
mail to Department of History and Political Science, Southeastern
Louisiana University, SLU 10895, Hammond, LA 70402. Teaching American
History Grant participants should e-mail Cynthia.Trappey@tangischools.org about
eligibility for the grant to pay their Symposium fees. For more
information call 985-549-2109 or e-mail hips@selu.edu.
Faculty contributions and student fees help make the Symposium
possible. Reduced rates for SLU IDs are not subsidized with other
participants’ fees.
May 18, 2010
Calling All Shutterbugs for 2010 Civil War Preservation Trust
Photography Contest
Popular Annual Contest is Co-Sponsored by History™ and the Center
for Civil War Photography
(Washington, D.C.) –
In the 1860s, Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner and other “embedded”
photographers made the Civil War the first major conflict to be
extensively documented by photojournalists. Their dramatic
battlefield images still haunt us today despite the use of equipment
and techniques that are considered primitive by the standards of
current technology.
Today, the Civil War Preservation Trust (CWPT) has again teamed up
with History™ (formerly The History Channel) and the Center for
Civil War Photography (CCWP) to sponsor a national photography
competition to promote appreciation of America’s rich Civil War
heritage.
“To see the fields and other sites where history was made is to
understand those events much more deeply,” said CWPT President James
Lighthizer. “A visual image can stir the imagination and make
history come alive like the written word cannot.”
In addition to showcasing modern images of sites associated with the
Civil War, the contest is designed to encourage closer study of the
many fascinating images taken during the conflict. CCWP, a nonprofit
group dedicated to educating the public about Civil War photography
and its role in the conflict, sponsors the competition’s “Then and
Now” category.
Amateur photographers are invited to submit Civil War-related photos
in four different categories: (1) Civil War Battlefields, showcasing
the solemn and scenic landscapes of these hallowed grounds; (2)
People on Civil War Battlefields , focusing on visitors young and
old enjoying their time on the battlefield; (3) Preservation
Threats, illustrating the grave threats faced by many Civil War
battlefields and historic sites; and (4) Then and Now, contrasting
early images of Civil War battlefields with the same sites today.
Additionally, students aged 13–18 are invited to submit their work
to a special High School division.
The winner of each category will receive a one-year membership (or
membership extension) to CWPT and a special plaque, while the Grand
Prize winner will receive free registration to CWPT’s 2011 annual
conference, in Manassas, Virginia. Second- and third-place winners
will receive certificates of recognition. All winning images will be
featured in CWPT publications and on www.civilwar.org.
Additionally, the winner of the “Then and Now” category will receive
a free registration to the Center for Civil War Photography’s annual
Image of War seminar (date and location to be announced).
All submissions to the contest must be uploaded to the CWPT site at www.flickr.com/groups/cwpt.
Flickr™ is one of the internet’s premier photo-sharing websites and
provides free membership and a user-friendly interface for uploading
photos and providing relevant captions. Once uploaded, photos must
be tagged to ensure their consideration in the correct category.
Participants must be amateur photographers and at least 13 years
old. Employees of sponsoring organizations and their families are
not eligible. The deadline for entries is August 31, 2010.
Individuals can submit an unlimited number of photographs, but each
image will only be considered in one category. For complete contest
rules and instructions on how to enter, visit CWPT online at www.civilwar.org/photocontest.
With 55,000 members, CWPT is the largest nonprofit battlefield
preservation organization in the United States. Its mission is to
preserve our nation’s endangered Civil War battlefields and to
promote appreciation of these hallowed grounds. CWPT has preserved
more than 29,000 acres of battlefield land across the nation. CWPT’s
website is www.civilwar.org.
May 10, 2010
The
Civil War Roundtable of the Ozarks has
started a new page on
Facebook. Drop by and show them
your support.
Jennifer Tarver
has some sent us some beautiful photographs of
Camp Nelson Cemetery in Lonoke County, Arkansas.
Thanks Jennifer!
May 7, 2010
13 Days at
Andersonville:
The Trial of
the Raiders
A Novel
by Phillip
J. Tichenor
By summer of 1864, the bloody Civil War was
more than 3 years old. Gettysburg and Vicksburg victories a year earlier
had failed to end it.
In June, the disastrous Union assault at
Cold Harbor caused 5,000 Union casualties.
Union troops under General Hunter were
destroying Shenandoah Valley farms. Confederates faced starvation.
General R. E. Lee ordered Jubal Early to save the Valley and the South’s
granary. He also told Early, secretly, to attack Washington D. C.
Meanwhile, prisoner exchange had stopped.
At Andersonville Prison in Georgia, some 30,000 captured Union soldiers
were packed into a 20-acre stockade. More than 12,000 died.
Making the horror worse, gangs of
“Raiders” terrorized the Andersonville stockade…until their capture. A
Court Martial of prisoners put the gang on trial.
This trial is unique in military history,
but the transcript has never been found.
All these elements come together in this
novel, in which:
- Sgt. Lucius McCordle is captured at
Cold Harbor and sent to the notorious prison.
- He is a small-town lawyer on the
Western frontier, where patriotic fervor for saving the Union is not
matched by general sympathy for African Americans.
- Lucius can’t forget a tumultuous former
romance with Maryanne Callander, whose work with the Underground
Railroad confronted Lucius’ lingering doubts about emancipation.
- He has one unshaken belief: Every
accused person, no matter how heinous the crime, is entitled to a fair
trial and a vigorous defense. No convicted person, he believes, should
be executed.
Acting on these principles has led him to
confrontations with town leaders—especially a local
judge-turned-regimental colonel who had kept Lucius from becoming an
officer.
Lucius arrives at Andersonville shortly
before the Raiders are captured.
He volunteers to defend these thugs in the
court martial, and discovers that:
- His friend Harry, and one-time
fiancé of Maryanne, is involved with the Raiders;
- A Raider chieftain has a copy of
General Lee’s secret order to Early to attack Washington; and
- The judge he alienated at home is also
a prisoner at Andersonville and will preside over the Court Martial of
the Raiders.
How will Lucius defend the Raiders? And
how can he get the secret orders to General Ulysses Grant?
Phillip J. Tichenor, retired journalism teacher, is co-author of
Civil War P.O.W.: Life and Death of a Farmer-Lawyer-Soldier (biography)
And Athena’s Forum, a
novel
Available at Amazon.com.
May 4, 2010
New from
MacMillan:
"None spins a yarn more compellingly than John C. Waugh—particularly
when it involves human conflict and its historical consequences.
Now this gifted writer meets an irresistible subject and the result
is a crackling good story about war, politics, and the clash of
titanic personalities. Lincoln and McClellan come vividly to life
in this book—and it is riveting to be in their company." –Harold
Holzer, author of Lincoln:
President-Elect
There was no more dynamic pair in the Civil War than Abraham Lincoln and
George McClellan. Early in the war, McClellan, only thirty-five years
old and commanding the Ohio troops, won skirmishes for the Union in
western Virginia. After the disastrous Union defeat at Bull Run in the
summer of 1861, Lincoln sent word for McClellan to come to Washington,
and soon elevated him to commander-in-chief of the Union army. But in
the late summer and fall, things took a turn for the worst. McClellan
seemed prone to delay, and had a penchant for vastly overestimating the
Confederate forces he faced.
Lincoln and McClellan is
a tale of the hubris, paranoia, and eventual failure of George
McClellan, and the benign but troubled patience of Abraham Lincoln.
Here, award-winning author John C. Waugh provides the first in-depth
look at this fascinating relationship, from the early days of the
Civil War to the 1864 presidential election, when Lincoln and
McClellan had their final showdown.
For more information or to place your order, please visit http://us.macmillan.com/lincolnandmcclellan.
April 29, 2010
The Spring 2010 issue of the Arkansas Battlefield Update
newsletter is now available on the Arkansas Historic Preservation
Program’s web site at:
The newsletter includes articles on the recent Arkansas
Civil War Heritage Trails Foundation annual meeting, activities of the
Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission, the activities of the
regional Arkansas Civil War Heritage Trail organizations, and other
information on Civil War in Arkansas. Click on the Arkansas Civil War
Heritage Trail logo to read the newsletter. If you would like to be put
on the mailing list for hard copies of the newsletter, send your name
and mailing address to info@arkansaspreservation.org.
April 23, 2010
The new Civil
War Roundtable of Arkansas Newsletter is out for April and we welcome
you to join us for a visit to the Ten Mile House in Little Rock.
April 19, 2010
Now online at
the
Missouri Digital Heritage Website:
Union Provost Marshal Papers, Two or
More Civilians, 1861-1867
During the Civil War and Reconstruction, Provost Marshals arrested
deserters, spies, and disloyal civilians; investigated thefts involving
military property or personnel; controlled access to military zones and
transportation; and maintained records of prisoners, paroles and loyalty
oaths. These documents include correspondence, provost court papers,
lists of prisoners, orders, passes, paroles, oaths of allegiance,
transportation permits, and war claims.
April 15, 2010
Eddie Landreth sent me a message that the Shoppach House Historic Park
is having their Annual Quilt Show on Saturday, May 8th from 0-3. This
is their fourth year to hold the event. Members of the Saline County
Quilters Guild wil display their quilts in the Pilgrims Rest Church
which was established in 1833.
The Shoppach House will be open for touring. It is the oldest house in
Benton, built in 1852. During the Civil War it served as housing for
officers who were stationed in Benton on the Military Road after the
fall of Little Rock in 1863.
The even is free. The Shoppach House Historic Park is located on the
corner of Military Road and Main Street in downtown Benton.
April 14, 2010
The General T. J. Churchill Chapter, United Daughters of the
Confederacy will host a Confederate Memorial Day Observance on Saturday,
April 24th at 2:00 at Oakland Fraternal Cemetery.
Oakland Cemetery is located at 21st and Barber Streets, Little
Rock.
Additional
Information:
Directions:
Drive through the main gate and down the hill toward the office. At the
office turn right and drive in front of the mausoleum and around the
mausoleum to the left. Continue driving up the hill. At the top of the
hill at the back of the cemetery you will see the monument placed by the
UDC in 1913. This is the
Southeast corner of the cemetery. There is ample parking and easy
access to the area for the service. Please
bring a lawn chair if you are unable to stand for a long period. There
is no rain date scheduled for this observance. Event will be held rain
or shine-bring an umbrella.
Guests are asked to wear a hat in honor of the soldiers remembered at
this service. Antebellum or Victorian dress is acceptable for this
observance. Please bring a flower from your garden to place at the base
of the monument during the singing of Amazing Grace.
Our guest
speaker will be Mrs. Lakresha Gray Diaz who has conducted extensive
research into the history of Oakland-Fraternal Cemeteries.
Oakland's
history began during the Civil War as many Confederate soldiers were
dying daily in the many make-shift Little Rock hospitals. In May 1862
the City of Little Rock appropriated funds of $5,000 to purchase 160
acres from the Starbuck and Woodruff families to establish Oakland
Cemetery. The final resting place of thousands of Confederate and Union
soldiers, Oakland was nominated for the National Register of Historic
Places in 2009.
Contact: Kay
Tatum, (501) 375-5197 or kay.tatum@yahoo.com
April 11, 2010
History comes alive with the reenactment of the Civil War skirmish at
Lunenburg. Presented by the Pvt. Job S. Neill Camp #286 of the Sons of
Confederate Veterans. Reenactment times are 3 pm Saturday May 1, 2010,
and 2 pm Sunday May 2, 2010, with a 5 pm. May 1 unveiling of an
historical marker commemorating the battle at the Lunenburg Community
Center.
The reenactment will be held at the site of the original skirmish near
Lunenburg, at Cooper Valley. Take Hwy 9 out of Melbourne toward Sylamore.
Take the first county road to the left, CR 3. There will be a sign at
that intersection for “Miller Cattle and Poultry.” The battle is in the
field to the left of the road near the second bridge across the creek.
Free Admission – Free Parking
Sponsors for the event are American Burger Center, Byram Dozing and
Backhoe, Conway Miller, D&L Discount, Hatfield Ready Mix, Mark’s
Pharmacy, Miller Cattle and Poultry Farms, and Pizza Inn.
For questions, call Roger Harvell at 870/368-3618 (home) or 864/361-0354
(cell), or e-mail rogerh48@bellsouth.net
Col. A.R. Witt SCV Ceremony 2010
Oak Grove Cemetery, Conway, Arkansas -
April 10, 2010
The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the availability
of a new online resource: The Atlanta Historic Newspapers Archive:
http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/atlnewspapers
The Atlanta Historic Newspapers Archive provides online access to
fourteen newspaper titles published in Atlanta from 1847 to 1922.
Consisting of over 67,000 newspaper pages, the archive provides
historical images that are both full-text searchable and can be browsed
by date. The site will provide users with a record of Atlanta's history
from its origins as an railroad terminus, through the devastation of the
Civil War, to its eventual growth into one of the nation's largest
cities.
The archive includes the following Atlanta newspaper titles: Atlanta
Daily Examiner (1857), Atlanta Daily Herald (1873-1876), Atlanta
Georgian (1906-1911), Atlanta Intelligencer (1851, 1854-1871), Atlantian
(1911-1922), Daily/Georgia Weekly Opinion (1867-1868), Gate-City
Guardian (1861), Georgia Literary and Temperance Crusader (1860-1861),
New Era (1869-1872), Southern Confederacy (1861-1864), Southern
Miscellany, and Upper Georgia Whig (1847), Southern World (1882-1885),
Sunny South (1875-1907), Weekly Constitution (1869-1882).
The Atlanta Historic Newspapers Archive is a project of the Digital
Library of Georgia as part of the Georgia HomePLACE initiative. The
project is supported with federal LSTA funds administered by the
Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Georgia Public
Library Service, a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System
of Georgia.
Other newspaper archives available through the Digital Library of
Georgia include the Macon Telegraph Archive (1826-1908), the Columbus
Enquirer Archive (1828-1890), the Milledgeville Historic Newspaper
Archive (1808-1920), the Southern Israelite Archive (1929-1958,
1984-1986), and the Red and Black Archive (1893-2006). These archives
can be accessed at:
http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/MediaTypes/Newspapers.html
April 5, 2010
Since we are
starting the second quarter of 2010, I have archived the What's New
page. You can find the old information in the
What's New Archive.
I found this complete book digitized over on Google,
The Aftermath of the Civil War in Arkansas
Author Powell Clayton
Publisher The Neale Publishing Company, 1915
Original from the University of Michigan
Digitized Oct 31, 2006
Length 378 pages
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