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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Iowa Volunteers. (search)
Helena till April, 1863. Polk's Plantation September 20, 1862 (Detachment Co. D ). Expedition from Helena to LaGrange September 26 (2 Cos.). Jones' Lane or Lick Creek October 11 (Detachment Cos. A, G and H ). Marianna and LaGrange November 8. Expedition from Helena to Arkansas Post November 16-21, and to Grenada, Miss., November 27-December 5. Oakland, Miss., December 3. Expedition to Big and Little Creeks March 6-12, 1863. Big Creek March 8. St. Charles and St. Francis Counties April 8. Moved to Milliken's Bend, La., April 28-30. Reconnoissance to Bayou Macon May 1-4. March to New Carthage May 5-8. (Co. G detached on courier duty at Young's Point, La., during May.) Fourteen-Mile Creek May 12-13. Mississippi Springs May 13. Hall's Ferry May 13 (Detachment). Baldwyn's Ferry May 13 (Detachment). Jackson May 14. Haines Bluff May 18 (Co. B ). Siege of Vicksburg, Miss., May 18-July 4. Engaged in outpost duty against Johnston be
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 11: (search)
were: Capt. A. A. Adair, of Craighead county; Capt. E. McAllister, of Crittenden county; Capt. Henry Hillis, of Craighead county; Capt. John Clendenin, of Phillips county; Capt. W. W. Smith, of Monroe county; Capt. Thomas Westmoreland, of Poinsett county; Capt. J. H. Robinson, of Chicot county, and after his election as major, Captain Craycraft, of Chicot; Capt. Simon P. Hughes, of Monroe, and after his election as lieutenant-colonel, Capt. John B. Baxter, of Monroe; Captain Seward, of St. Francis county; Capt. Brown Dolson, of Cross county. The regiment was reorganized after the battle of Shiloh, and the following field officers elected: Col. O. P. Lyles, of Crittenden county; Lieut.-Col. A. A. Pennington, of Clark county; Maj. E. R. Black, of Monroe county; Adjt. C. W. Lewis, of Crittenden; Quartermaster McMurray, of Chicot; Commissary Norton, of Phillips county. The Twenty-third was engaged in the battles of Iuka and Corinth. It was united in a brigade with the Fifteenth, Sixteen
The Daily Dispatch: may 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], Wants his name changed. (search)
Bloody Rencontre. --In St. Francis county, Ark., a week or two since, a fight occurred between Edward Lindsay and a man from the North, which resulted in the death of both, and the severe wounding of a third party who interfered. The Northerner had been expressing abolition sentiments, which led to the difficulty.
The Daily Dispatch: may 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Horrible instance of Indian Superstition. (search)
Abolitionist shot. --On Saturday week, at Taylor's Creek, St Francis county, Ark, a New England school teacher, who had married and settled in the neighborhood, was shot by his neighbors and killed on the spot, a considerable number of balls entering hi body. He had been engaged in some abolition proceedings, and when approached by his neighbors he fired upon them twice, wounding one of them in the leg. His own fate was speedily decided.
The Daily Dispatch: October 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Burial cases. (search)
ing five prisoners. Four Federals were wounded and one killed. Our cavalry were at first fired on by 75 men. One Lieutenant had thirty-two bullet holes in his clothes, and six of the shots scratched his skin. The Missouri State Convention yesterday passed an ordinance postponing the State election till the first Monday in November, 1862. The ordinance was passed by a vote of 49 to 1, It is reported that Bog River Bridge, in this State, has been burned by a party of rebels from St. Francis county. Connecticut Legislature. Hartford, Oct. 15. --The State Senate, by a vote of 12 yeas to 6 days, to-day passed a resolution ordering the removal from the Senate Chamber of the portraits of Hon. Isaac Toucey and Ex-Governor Thos. H. Seymour, on account of their alleged disloyalty to the Federal Government. Presentation of a sword to Gen. Anderson. Washington, Oct. 16. --The sword voted by the Philadelphia City Councils to Gen. Anderson was privately present
The Daily Dispatch: March 10, 1862., [Electronic resource], The War in the West. (search)
r. He performed a most commendable act, one which we record with high satisfaction as a journalist, and with pride as his friends. He presented each member as sworn in with a check for 300 dollars. The same paper has the following encouraging statement: We have learned from a friend, who has just returned from a tour through the State of Arkansas, that the people in that region of country are all alive to the interests of the Confederacy; that in the town of Madison, county of St. Francis, several wealthy gentlemen, whose income amounts to over ten thousand dollars per year, pledged the entire sum to the support of the families of soldiers who would volunteer and fight for the Southern Confederacy. And we learn, further, that every man is volunteering, and that old Arkansas will roll up twenty-five or thirty thousand new recruits for the war. Three cheers for old Arkansas!. Generals Pillow and Buckner. Gen. Pillow has addressed a note to the Memphis Avalanche, in
The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], Amalgamation. (search)
a friend will vouch for: While the Yankee troops under Fitch were in camp on White river, near Madison, Arkansas, Col. Daniels, of the 1st Wisconsin regiment, became terribly enamored with a negro woman belonging to David Goodice, of St. Francis county. Although as black as ebony, the Colonel proposed marriage, and in a short time he led her to the hymenial altar, and there the black hearted dog took Miss Mary Goodice "for better or for worse." A short time afterwards the Major of the same regiment married a slave belonging to Dr. Nash, of St. Francis county, and about the same time the Chaplain of the 1st Wisconsin entered into the "holy bonds of wedlock" with a negro of the blackest dye, the property of Mr. Thomas, living on White river. The Yankees had stolen all the negroes within their reach, and had them confined within their lines. A week or two after the officers married the "adorable niggers," our forces made an attack on Fitch, and then the battle of Languille was f
The Daily Dispatch: October 4, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
h General Shelby. Their combined strength is from ten to twenty thousand men, with sixteen pieces of artillery.--Their advance reached Farmington, twenty miles northeast of Pilot Knob, yesterday. There is no information of the reported capture of Cape Girardeau. Preparations for offensive and defensive movements continue. Another and later dispatch from St. Louis says: Official information still puts Price's main force at Fredericktown, with the advance at Farmington, St. Francis county. The main body is estimated at from ten to twelve thousand strong, principally cavalry. The advance, about four thousand, are mounted. Light attacks were made on Pilot Knob and Ironton yesterday, which were easily repulsed. It now appears that Pilot Knob was not evacuated, as previously reported. Price's plans are yet undeveloped, but he seems to be massing his forces in Arcadia Valley. General Mower, who left Brownsville, Arkansas, two weeks ago, with a strong force of caval