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Microfilmed copies of original documents held by Columbia University, New York, New York.  Colonel Peter Wellington Alexander, Confederate States of America, was a Georgia-born editor and Civil War correspondent who also collected official Confederate documents from the Trans-Mississippi Department. The microfilm selection from Alexander's papers contains some letters to Alexander, as well as telegrams, business, and military documents related to him or his activities, but most of the collection pertains to the Confederate States Army, Trans-Mississippi Department, from 1862 to 1863, especially actions in Arkansas, southern Missouri, and the Indian Territory including Newtonia, Missouri, Fort Wayne, Indian Territory, and Cane Hill, Prairie Grove, Saint Charles, Arkansas.  This material includes letters, general and special orders, field reports, telegrams and other documents of the Confederate forces operating in Arkansas, from junior officers to staff and commanding officers.  Correspondents include: James Gillpatrick Blunt, Elias C. Boudinot, John Q. Burbridge, William L. Cabell, Charles A. Carroll, Douglas H. Cooper, Samuel Ryan Curtis, William Crosby Dawson, James Fleming Fagan, Daniel M. Frost, Daniel Harvey Hill, Thomas Carmichael Hindman, Francis J. Herron, Thophilus Hunter Holmes, Robert Edward Lee, Emmett MacDonald, Duncan Kirkland McRae, John Sappington Marmaduke, Robert C. Newton, Mosby Monroe Parsons, Albert Pike, James S. Rains, John Selden Roane, William Tecumseh Sherman, Francis Asbury Shoup, Earl Van Dorn, and Stand Watie. A few of the letters have been calendared, but most correspondence in letter books and more than 1,355 telegrams have not been individually described.  These include a lengthy exchage of messages between Leiutenant General Theophilus H. Holmes and Major General Thomas C. Hindman on December 1, 1862 discussing the feasibility of the Prairie Grove campaign and related issues, and another lengthy exchange between the two officers on December 12, 1862 discussing the results of the battle. Among the battle reports to be found in the correspondence of this collection are: a five page letter from John W. Dunnington to Thomas C. Hindman, dated June 21, 1862, describing the battle of Saint Charles with an accompanying map; a twenty page report on the battle of Prairie Grove prepared by Thomas C. Hindman's adjutant, S. S. Anderson; a battle report from Colonel G. W. Thompson dated September 1, 1862 regarding a skirmish in Newton County, Arkansas.  Restrictions apply. MC 1379. Finding aid available online.

206.  Jasper Baxter
                 Papers, 1863-1903; 7 items.

Pension application, form letters, and documents received by Baxter or submitted by his widow to the United States Bureau of Pensions. Baxter was a resident of Scott County, Arkansas and a private in Company I, Second Arkansas Cavalry (Union).  The papers include a  those pertaining to Baxter's divorce from his first wife Matilda in 1869 and an 1863 promotion certificate presented to Corporal Robert D. Harris, also of Company I, Second Arkansas Cavalry.  MC 1114. Finding aid available online.

207.  Benton County, Arkansas
                 Court Records, 1861-1869; 1 file.

Positive photocopies of original documents held by the Benton County Archives.  Court records showing a call for local Justice of the Peace officers to ratify secession in 1861 and to allocate money to support a home guard unit.  No MC number.

208.  Berry-Quaile-Dickenson Families
                 Papers, ca. 1860-1960s; 10 linear feet.

Family papers from descendants of James Henderson Berry, former governor and senator from Arkansas and second lieutenant, Company E., Sixteenth Arkansas Infantry.  Civil War related material includes and extensive collection of ribbons from various reunions of the United Confederate Veterans and Sons of Confederate Veterans organizations; related pamphlets and printed ephemera issued by the UCV or SCV; manuscript biographical and genealogical essays and notes pertaining to James H. Berry; original discharge certificates and passes issued to Private Thomas Dickenson, Company A, Fourth Arkansas Infantry, in December 1863; an extensive manuscript reminiscence, circa 1905, of Major A.V. Rieff, First Arkansas Calvary (Monroe's).  Several drafts of the Rieff manuscript describe the wartime service of his regiment from its inception to its participation in the Price Missouri Campaign of 1864.  The Rieff manuscript describes in varying detail the battles of Poison Springs, Devil's Backbone, Marks Mill, Prairie DeAnne, Jenkins Ferry, Arkansas and Pilot Knob, Missouri.  MC 1372.

209.  Jesse C. Bliss
                 Papers, 1862-1967; 63 items.

Letters, documents, and photographs created or collected by Jesse Bliss or his granddaughter, Jesse Elizabeth Hill Durrett.  Jesse C. Bliss enrolled in the Union army on August 1, 1861 and received a commission as Second Lieutenant, Forty-Fourth Illinois Infantry.  He served for the next three years as his regiment was moved to various locations in Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia.  Bliss saw action at the battles of Pea Ridge (Benton County) Arkansas, Perryville, Kentucky, and Murfreesboro, Tennessee before he was discharged during the Atlanta campaign on September 15, 1864.  The papers include 14 letters written by Bliss to relatives and friends back in Illinois from 1862-1864.  These letters include one dated Sugar Creek Bottom, Arkansas, March 13, 1862 which describes the battle of Pea Ridge, the activities of local civilians, the behavior of Confederate Indian soldiers, and confirmation that the rebels had captured Union army payroll documents that gave troop strengths prior to the battle.  Another later dated Camp Hoffman, Keithville, Missouri, March 28, 1862 gives further mention of the Pea Ridge battle.  Bliss wrote from Nashville, Tennessee twice during November, 1862 giving information on the battle of Perryville.  A letter dated Murfreesboro, Tennessee, January 8, 1863 mentions Bliss's experiences at the Battle of Murfreesboro and rumors of civilian mistreatment of federal wounded.  Two undated fragments may give information on the Atlanta campaign in 1864.  The collection also includes a tintype of Bliss in uniform.  MC 1228. Finding aid available online.

210.  Bragg Family
                 Papers, 1836-1946; 1 linear foot.

Genealogical materials, correspondence, financial and legal documents pertaining to the Bragg family of Ouachita County, Arkansas.  Samuel Newton Bragg and Hosea Bragg were small plantation owners who settled in Arkansas during the 1840s.  Papers include letters received by Hosea and Samuel from relatives and friends in Alabama, Texas, and Louisiana before and during the Civil War.  J.B. Otts, a planter in Vienna, Louisiana, wrote to Samuel on March 2, 1861, January 25, 1862, and January 28, 1862.  Otts describes local economic conditions, the reaction to the election of Jefferson Davis, and the activities of a slave named "Moses" belonging to Bragg but hired out to a Louisiana plantation.  A fourth letter from a sister, "Abb," to Samuel is dated Lowdens County, Alabama, December 26, 1861 and describes local conditions and fighting at Fort Pickens, Pensacola, Florida.  Restrictions apply.  MC 1257.  Finding aid available online.
 

211.  Walter Lee Brown
                 Collection, 1861-1912; 1.2 linear feet.

Original and photocopied manuscript materials collected by Walter Lee Brown, history professor of the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville and editor of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly.  Includes papers of the J.E.H. Ward family of Crittenden County, Arkansas.  Two letters written by Cynthia Ward to her daughter in 1866 describe local conditions during the early Reconstruction period and a list of property burned or carried away from the Ward plantation on October 19, 1862 by the Forty-Sixth Ohio Infantry, Lt. Colonel Smith commanding.  The collection also includes: a letter from H.S. Harris of Atlanta, Georgia, documenting his claim for a pension based on service in the Second Arkansas Cavalry (Union); receipt for the purchase of a mule from U.S. authorities in Little Rock (Pulaski County) Arkansas by George Moore on September 8, 1865; a letter from D.W. Carroll dated Washington (Hempstead County) Arkansas, November 6, 1864 regarding his candidacy for the Confederate Congress; parole for private M. A. Clark of Company A, Twelfth Arkansas Infantry, dated January 5, 1864; account sheet of items purchased by Captain Philip G. Henry of the Ninth Arkansas Infantry in 1861-1862 from merchant J.C. Mills; broadside notice of a reunion of Ross's Texas Brigade at Rhea's Mill, Texas, June 26, 1883.  MC 1200.  Finding aid available online.

212.  Rebecca Ann Campbell
                 Letters, August 19-September 12, 1863; 3 items.

Three manuscript letters written by Campbell to her sons in the Confederate Army.  Rebecca Ann Campbell was a resident of Frederick County, Virginia during the Civil War.  Her letter of August 19 describes farming conditions, rumors of black soldiers in the Union Army and the effect of those rumors on Campbell servants and family gossip.  The letter of September 12 describes similar neighborhood news along with mention of horse stealing by brigands in the area.  The third letter, undated, was apparently written during the interim between the first two and describes the death of an uncle at the hands of brigands.  MC 1300.
 

213.  Camden, Arkansas, Civil War Record Book, ca. 1920.
                 1 volume

Ledger book containing material transcribed by hand from various sources pertaining mostly to Civil War activities around Camden, Arkansas, or involving Confederate troops from Camden and serving elsewhere during the war, including obituaries, biographical sketches, speeches, cemetery lists and miscellaneous notes.  Actions described include: Jenkins Ferry and Prairie Grove, Arkansas; Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, Louisiana; Vicksburg, Mississippi. The unidentifed person transcribing the information had access to letters written by Junius Newport Bragg, a surgeon with the 33rd Arkansas Infantry, and a scrapbook kept by Bragg's wife. Dr. Bragg's letters were subsequently published in 1960 by his daughter, Helen Bragg Gaughan.  Of particular interest are transcribed letters from Camden area women refugees living in Texas during the war, and lists of surviving Confederate veterans attending reunions in Camden in 1908 and 1913.  MC 1375.  Finding aid available online.

214.  Benjamin T. DuVal
                 Papers, 1816-1957; .5 linear feet.

Letters, diary, clippings, photographs, and printed materials pertaining to Benjamin DuVal or his family.  Benjamin T. DuVal was a Fort Smith (Sebastian County) Arkansas attorney, politician, and Confederate officer.  He served on the staff of General James F. Fagan during the war as a quartermaster.  The papers include many prewar military reports pertaining to Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, and Fort Smith (Sebastian County) Arkansas, collected by Major Francis Page of the Seventh U.S. Infantry.  Among the Civil War papers are: letter dated Fort Cobb, Washington Territory, January 11, 1861 from William L. Cabell discussing the inevitability of secession and his desires to receive an appointment in the Arkansas State Forces; 2 letters dated Fort Smith, February 18 and 20, 1862 from John King and John T. Hurley reporting on rumors of a fight at Pott's Hill, Sugar Creek (Benton County) Arkansas and the preparations of Confederate forces at Fort Smith; two letters dated Camden (Ouachita County) Arkansas, November 9 and December 20, 1863 from Duval describing the payment and organization of Confederate troops and the Union occupation of Little Rock.  Postwar letters include one from DuVal concerning the imprisonment of William E. Connelly by military authorities in Fort Smith in 1868 others from James Fagan and Augustus Garland concerning postwar state politics.  Other documents include: DuVal's amnesty oath, 1865; an essay by William L. Cabell written in 1900 concerning his part in the 1864 Price raid into Missouri and Kansas.  MC 1212.  Finding aid available online.

215.  Edmonson/Thomas Family
                 Papers, 1854-1919; 4 items.

Legal and financial papers pertaining to the Edmonson family of central Arkansas.  Includes a discharge certificate, dated DeVall's Bluff, Arkansas, January 9, 1866, for Captain Benjamin Thomas, Company D, Sixty-Third United States Colored Infantry.  MC 1242.

216.  Ellsworth Family
                 Family papers, 1858-1979; 6.35 linear feet.

Correspondence, journals, photographs and papers created and collected by the family of Sarah Elizabeth Van Patten and Dr. Prosper Harvey Ellsworth of Hot Springs (Garland County) Arkansas.  Major Prosper Ellsworth was a physician who enlisted as a surgeon with the 106th Illinois Infantry during the Civil War and served part of his time in Arkansas.  Ellsworth settled in Hot Springs after the war where he established a successful medical practice and engaged in other business pursuits.  His papers include all the documentation for his pension application and membership in the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.  There is also an 1864 carte-de-visite of Ellsworth taken at DeVall's Bluff, Arkansas, by White's Portable Gallery.  Sarah Van Patten, who Ellsworth married in 1873, was a wartime resident of Mount Washington, Maryland. She kept a diary starting in February 27, 1865 that describes in very brief entries her daily activities during the final months of the war, including mention of the surrender at Appomattox and the assassination of President Lincoln.  A large photograph album is also in the collection which contains original carte-de-visite portraits of Jefferson Davis, Varina Davis, Robert E. Lee, Leonidas Polk, and John C. Breckinridge.  MC 1162.  Finding aid available online.

217.  William Enfield
                 Photograph collection, circa 1864; 2 items.

Photographs collected by Lieutishay Wilcox Enfield, born in 1847 and raised on a farm near Springfield, Illinois.  Original carte de visite portraits of Abraham Lincoln and William Tecumseh Sherman.  MC 1315. Finding aid available online.

218.  Engels-Kinnibrough Family
                 Papers, 1837-1970; 1.5 linear feet.

Letters, financial documents, and miscellaneous papers pertaining to William H. Engels, his wife Nancy Kinnibrough Engles, and their extended families.  William H. Engels was a pioneer resident of Farmington (Washington County) Arkansas and operated a mill at that location during the Civil War.  The papers include a summons from the headquarters of the First Arkansas Cavalry (Union) at Fayetteville to Engels in 1865 to testify at a courtmartial at that place and related vouchers for travel expenses.  MC 554.  Finding aid available online.

219.  Horace J. Ford
                 Diary, 1848-1849; 1 item.

Positive photocopy of an original diary held by the Arkansas Territorial Restoration.  Horace Ford was a plantation overseer in the employ of Horace F. Walworth in Chicot County, Arkansas.  The entries in Ford's diary describe planation life, the cotton trade on the Mississippi River, and slave activities.  MC 1249.

220.  Fordyce Family
                 Business and personal records, 1400-1992; 5.5 linear feet.

Original and photocopied genealogical research materials, business records, newspaper clippings and reminiscences of the Samuel Wesley Fordyce family of Hot Springs (Garland County) Arkansas.  Captain Samuel Fordyce was a an Ohio resident who helped organize the First Ohio Cavalry, Company B.  He served in the first three years of the war, participating in the battles of West Liberty, Virginia, Perryville, Kentucky, the Corinth, Mississippi campaign, Murfreesboro and Chattanooga, Tennessee prior to his discharge due to medical disability on December 24, 1863.  He married the daughter of Mary Jane Chadwick, a resident of Huntsville, Alabama, who he met during his service at that place.  The collection includes a detailed typed reminiscence of Fordyce describing his participation in the aforementioned battles, a prewar chance encounter with Senator Stephen A. Douglas, selling a horse to future President James A. Garfield, and his brief imprisonment after being captured by the enemy.  An original letter from Brigadier General George Crook, dated December 24, 1863, gives a brief commendation for the service of Fordyce at the time of his discharge.  The collection also includes an original diary kept by Mary Jane Chadwick in Huntsville from 1862-1865 describing conditions in Huntsville, Alabama, the Union occupation of the town, and General John Grant Mitchell.  The diary is supplemented with a bogus order signed by "Captain Allen" requiring Chadwick to vacate her home due to disloyalty that was sent as an April Fool joke in 1864.  One letter, written by Fordyce from Nashville, Tennessee on November 1, 1864 describes business affairs in the city.  MC 1311.  Finding aid available online.

221.  Gallaher, Rhyne, and Wilkerson Families
                 Papers, 1851-1960; 8 linear feet.

Papers created by three related pioneer families of Polk County, Arkansas.  The collection includes a handwritten list of items stolen from the Rhyne family by bushwhackers in 1865. Unprocessed. MC 1057.

222.  Nancy Gillespie
                 Papers, 1865; 3 items.

Handwritten petition, signed by Nancy Gillespie, Columbia County, Arkansas, asking for leave for her brother-in-law, Private John M. Gillespie, Third Arkansas Infantry (Consolidated), due to her material distress following the 1863 death of her husband, Flemming.  Also included: an attached furlough for John signed by Confederate Headquarters staff at Lewisville (Miller County) Arkansas; a separate statement on John Gillespie's character signed by Captain John J. Wofford; a period photograph/sketch of Flemming Gillespie in uniform.  MC 1301.

223.  James Millinder Hanks
                 Diaries, 1865-1909; 2.8 linear feet.

Original handwritten diaries and typewritten transcriptions.  James M. Hanks was a Helena (Phillips County) Arkansas native who attended law school in Kentucky and returned to his home town to engage in his profession and other business pursuits.  He married Helena Thompson in 1859 and commenced writing daily entries in a diary on New Year's Day, 1865, a practice he continued until three days before he died in 1909.  Aside from business and legal pursuits, Hanks also served as a United States Congressman for a single term in 1871-73.  The Civil War entries in Hanks diary include mention of Brigadier General Napoleon Bonaparte Buford, meetings of the local Union League, and travels to Memphis, Tennessee and his wife's home in Iowa.  Postwar entries include mention of Helena citizens reaction to Lincoln's assassination and the assassination of Thomas C. Hindman in 1868.  MC 1335.  Finding aid available online.

224.  John Davis Hardgrave Family
                 Papers, 1825-1885; .2 linear feet.

Notebook, legal documents, and papers pertaining to the John Davis Hardgrave family of Benton County, Arkansas. Includes a commission signed by Governor Henry M. Rector for Second Lieutenant William B. Smedley, Armstrong's Company, Tenth Regiment, Arkansas Militia, dated January 28, 1862.  MC 1318. Finding aid available online.

225.  Margaret I. Hawk
                 Thomas and Rebecca Smith of Richland Township, Washington County, Arkansas, 1990; 1 item.

Detailed genealogical essay which provides some Civil War information on the Smith family of Washington County, Arkansas.  MC 1070.

226.  Mary D. Hudgins
                 Collection, 1800-1986; 55 linear feet.

Research files, literary manuscripts, correspondence, topical manuscript collections, and printed materials created or collected by Hot Springs librarian and author Mary Dengler Hudgins.  Hudgins was a prolific historical feature writer and longtime collector of Arkansiana.  Her interests included all phases of Arkansas history, especially music and the Hot Springs (Garland County) area.  Among the many original manuscript collections in her papers are: the George D. Lea papers, 1843-1878, pertaining to the activities of Lea, a Princeton (Dallas County) Arkansas planter; the Henry M. Rector papers, 1865-1890, which includes the 1865 amnesty oath of the first Confederate governor of Arkansas.  Hudgins research files contain her notes and photocopied information on Civil War blacks, Fort Gibson, and Henry M. Rector.  MC 534.  Finding aid available online.

227.  William H. Hughes
                 Papers, ca. 1890-1950; 3 linear feet.

Mostly materials pertaining to William H. Hughes or his descendent, Helen Hughes of Conway, Arkansas.  Included with these papers is an extensive file of letters from John Hallum to Ruby Hughes, his sister, written between 1871 and 1909.  Hallum was an attorney and Civil War veteran living in central Arkansas during the late nineteenth century.  He lectured on Civil War topics and wrote an extensive history of Arkansas.  His letters document problems with marketing his history and include two broadsides advertising his Civil War lectures.  MC 1088.  Finding aid available online.

228.  Dudley Emerson Jones
                 Papers, 1849-1913; 1.7 linear feet

Dudley Jones was an Iowa resident prior to the war, having participated in the California Gold Rush and engaging in a number of business operations in that state, New York, and Iowa.  He enlisted in the Third Iowa Cavalry gaining the rank of Lieutenant while acting as quartermaster for the regiment.  He served in both Helena (Phillips County) and Little Rock (Pulaski County) until his enlistment ran out in 1864 and afterwards remained in Little Rock to establish a business.  The collection includes three letters he received from his wife Caroline and daughters in January and February 1865 discussing business affairs and family news in Keokuk, Iowa.  Three letters from H.D.B. Cutter, a newspaper editor in Corydon, Iowa and Lancaster, Missouri, written to Jones from 1864-1866 discuss national politics and mutual army acquaintances.  Cutter apparently served on the staff of Major General Cyrus Bussey during the early years of the war.  A letter from S. S. Sweet, an old California business associate of Jones, dated San Francisco, December 11, 1864 describes the activities of Copperheads in the city and an earthquake tremor on that date.  Captain Samuel McKee, Company B, Third Iowa Cavalry, wrote a latter dated March 3, 1865, Gravelly Springs, Alabama, describing camp conditions at that location and another letter from a civilian, O.H.R. Scott, written from Nashville, Tennessee on March 19, 1865 mentions the activities of a military repair depot in that city. The papers also include an 1898 communication from General Bussey requesting verification of his medical claim for a chronic condition caused by service near Helena during the war, an incomplete reminiscence regarding the Confederate sabotage of water wells during the Vicksburg campaign, and a photograph of Jones in uniform taken at Helena.  Two other photographs of unidentified officers, likely from the Third Iowa Cavalry, were also taken at Helena in 1863.  MC 1305.  Finding aid available online.

229.  Thomas E. Jordan
                 The Collection of Ex-Slave Narratives in Little Rock by the Federal Writer's Project, 1991; 1 item.

Research paper, written by Jordan for the F. Hampton Roy History Award competition sponsored by the Pulaski County Historical Society, Little Rock, Arkansas.  Paper is a detailed study of internal criticism analysis of the WPA interviews conducted of ex-slaves during the Depression throughout Arkansas.  MC 1163.  Finding aid available online.

230.  B. F. Little
                 Papers, 1862-1918; 144 items.

Pension application forms for Little, a private in company D, First Arkansas Cavalry (Union).  Also a photograph of Little circa 1870.  MC 1077.  Finding aid available online.

231.  Mary P. Marquess
                 Research papers, 1970-1975; .4 linear feet.

Genealogical research notes and reports pertaining o the Berry and Peel families of Benton County, Arkansas.  Includes manuscript "An Account of John and Jane Campbell Berry of Washington County, Virginia and some of their descendants in Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, and Oregon," which mentions the Civil War activities of William Martin Berry, a wartime resident of Benton County, Arkansas.  MC 1126. Finding aid available online.

232.  Anne McMath
                 Research papers, 1987-1990; 1.2 linear feet

Research notes and literary manuscripts created or collected by Anne McMath.  Anne McMath is the wife of former Arkansas governor Sid McMath and the author of The First Ladies of Arkansas: Women of Their Times (Little Rock: August House, 1989).  The collection includes McMath's original manuscript and research files pertaining to: Flora Linde Rector (wife of Henry M. Rector, governor 1860-1862); Martha Elizabeth Nash Flanagin (wife of Harris Flanagin, governor 1862-1865); Angela Lockhart Murphy (wife of Issac Murphy, governor 1864-1868).  MC 957.  Finding aid available online.

233.  Miller-Massey-Donaldson-Johnston Families
                 Papers, 1790-1929; 1 linear foot.

Positive photocopies of letters, legal documents, and family papers pertaining to the Miller-Massey families of Arkansas and Tennessee.  Civil War letters in the collection include: one from James S. Massey, dated Pikesville, Tennessee, September 11, 1862 which mentions his illness in a hospital at that place; one from Jane A. Dunlap, date Lancaster, South Carolina, September 17, 1862, which discusses the death of her son Second Lieutenant Joe Dunlap, Fifth South Carolina Infantry, at a battle on the Chickahominy River; one from John J. Spratt, Tenth Texas Cavalry, dated Memphis, Tennessee, April 23, 1862 discussing the dismounting of the regiment at Des Arc (Prairie County) Arkansas; letter from James S. Massey dated Saltillo, Mississippi, July 20, 1862 describing camp conditions; letter from S.D. Mosby, Walthall's Regiment, Chalmer's Brigade, Walker's Division, Company I, dated Knoxville, Tennessee, November 1, 1862 reporting the death of James Massey; letter from Mary Campbell, dated Leesburg, Tennessee, January 25, 1862 describing conditions at that place; letter from William H. Massey, dated Marietta, Georgia, July 1, 1864 describing combat and casualties; two letters from J.J. Spratt dated Camp Douglas, July 12, 1864 and April 4, 1865, written while he was held prisoner; ten letters written from William Henry Massey from March 11, 1862 to September 11, 1862 from Corinth, Grenada, Saltillo Mississippi and Chattanooga, Johnson's Ferry, and Pikesville, Tennessee.  MC 1131.  Finding aid available online.

234.  John Wilson Peel
                 Papers, 1862-1875, n.d.; 16 items.

Letters and genealogy notes pertaining to the John Wilson Peel family of Benton County.  Two of Peel's sons joined the Confederate army: James Wilson Peel, Company K, First Arkansas Mounted Rifles and Richard M. Peel, Company E, Sixteenth Arkansas Infantry.  This collection has been supplemented with three additional letters since its original description in the first edition of this guide. Two letters from James written in March and April, 1862 from Camp McCulloch and Batesville (Independence County) Arkansas, describe briefly the disposition of troops following the battle of Pea Ridge.  The third letter, dated Tupelo, Mississippi June 18, 1862, is from Richard Peel to John Wilson Peel and describes a brief skirmish near Corinth, Mississippi on May 26, 1862 and the death of James Peel from sickness.  MC 926.  Finding aid available online.

235.  Michael B. Pipkin
                 Narratives, 1944; 2 items.

Collection of historical essays written by Pipkin and others.  Includes biographical essay regarding E.L. Compere by Jayne Lyon Compere, no date.  Compere was the chaplain to the Second Regiment, Cherokee Rifles (Confederate) and the essay briefly discusses his military career.  MC 1309.  Finding aid available online.

236.  Samuel Pinkney Pittman
                 Prairie Grove Battle Account, 1896; 1 item.

Newspaper copy manuscript for an article written by Pittman, Sergeant, Thirty-Fourth Arkansas Infantry, regarding his after battle experiences at Prairie Grove (Washington County) Arkansas.  The article appeared in the Mountain City Gazette (Fayetteville, Arkansas) December 5, 1896.  MC 673.

237.  Vicki Rounsavall
                 Collection, ca. 1980-1996.

Fayetteville, Arkansas genealogist and historian.  Collection of research materials includes copies from the National Archives of casualty reports for the First, Second, and Third Indian Home Guard regiments for various engagements including the battle of Honey Springs, Indian Territory.

238.  George M. Sanders
                 Record books and memoir, 1864-1905; 3 items.

Sanders was Captain of Company A, Third Illinois Cavalry during the Civil War.  The memoir, written in 1905, is a typed transcript giving a brief synopsis of his wartime experiences in Arkansas and elsewhere.  One record book kept in the spring of 1865 while Sanders was on duty at Benton Barracks, St. Louis, Missouri and Eastport, Mississippi, records equipment issued to soldiers in Company A at those places.  The other record book is a list of sick men from Company L while the regiment was stationed at Port Hudson, Louisiana in the spring and summer of 1864.  MC 1136.  Finding aid available online.

239.   John B. Scotton
                 Letter, July 21, 1862; 1 item.

Scotton was a private in the Thirty-Third Iowa Infantry stationed at Helena (Phillips County) Arkansas during the Civil War.  His letter, written to John and Ebenezer Scotton, describes the garrison conditions at that place, some military movements, and black residents of the town.  MC 1197.  Finding aid available online.

240.  Shugart Plantation
                 Records, 1833-1911; 1 reel microfilm

Records pertaining to a cotton plantation near Princeton (Dallas County) Arkansas.  Material includes ledgers, account books, and a diary kept by Henry R. Shugart from 1839-1840 which mentions the activities of slaves on the plantation.  MC 1075.  Finding aid available online.

241.  Rachel Skoney
                 Papers, 1986-1991; 2 linear feet.

Research files pertaining to Arkansas slaves and slaveholders of the 1850s and 1860s, including binders of tabulated census data, gathered while Skoney was preparing her 1991 master's thesis at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. MC 1239.  Finding aid available online.

242.  John I. Smith
                 Papers, 1955-1980; 1 linear foot.

Research notes, publishing correspondence, and literary manuscripts created or collected by Fayetteville, Arkansas writer John I. Smith.  Papers include literary works on Arkansas wartime governor Issac Murphy and the Brooks-Baxter war in Arkansas during the Reconstruction period.  MC 1097.  Finding aid available online.

243.  Samuel Sprague
                 Letters, 1864; 6 items.

Letters written by Sprague and his comrade, L.L. Bolding, to relatives in Iowa.  Samuel Sprague was a private in Company B, First Iowa Cavalry who was stationed in Little Rock (Pulaski County) Arkansas in 1864.  His letters home to his mother describe his health, some garrison activities, execution of rebels in the city, preparations for the Camden Expedition, and reactions to home gossip.  One letter is written by Bolding, a private in Company F, regarding Samuel's confinement in the hospital.  The collection includes an original cartridge wrapper likely used to bundle ten carbine cartridges.  MC 1231.

244.  Nathan Strong Family
                 Papers, 1851-1937; .6 linear feet.

Letters, memoranda books, autograph album created by members of the Nathan Strong family of Clark County, Arkansas.  Nathan Strong was a pioneer resident of Arkansas.  His son, Henry, operated a general store and boat landing at Montroy on the Ouachita River and served as a justice of the peace for Manchester Township after the war.  Henry's brother, Watson, attended Andrews College in Tennessee prior to the war and settled in Memphis afterwards as an attorney.  Wesley K. Strong served in the First Arkansas Infantry (Confederate) and later in the Thirty-Seventh Arkansas Infantry.  The collection includes wartime letters written by Strong family members and acquaintances. Two  letters from 1861 are written by Wesley from locations along the Potomac River in Virginia and discuss: the battle of Bull Run and the capture of the First Michigan Infantry's colors; interactions with Federal pickets across the river; Federal gunboat activities along the Potomac.  Another letter, written by Captain George D. Alexander, Company I, Third Arkansas Infantry (Confederate) dated Alexandria, Virginia, August 8, 1861 to James M. Prior of Tulip, Arkansas describes the death of Private William Prior of the same regiment.  Three letters from Wesley were written in 1862 from Fredricksburg, Virginia, Nashville, Tennessee, and Corinth, Mississippi describing: camp conditions in those areas: rumors that President Jefferson Davis intended to command in person at Nashville; preparations of the southern forces prior to the battle of Shiloh, Tennessee.  One undated later from Wesley's mother describes conditions in Clark County circa 1861-1862.  MC 1210. Finding aid available online.

245.  Strong Family Papers
                 Addendum, 1850-1880; .4 linear feet.

Additional materials pertaining to the Strong family.  The papers include: a letter from Nathan Strong dated Trenton, Tennessee, March 18, 1861 describing mostly business matters and prewar excitement among the residents; a letter from James Riggs dated Hampton (Calhoun County) Arkansas, May 15, 1861 describing the departure of local volunteers for Little Rock; postwar sharecropper contracts and time reports from Clark County during 1867.  MC 1221.  Finding aid available online.

246.  Trulock Family
                 Papers; 1837-1869; .4 linear feet.

Papers created or collected by the Trulock family of Pine Bluff (Jefferson County) Arkansas.  Collection includes fourteen letters written by Amanda Beardsley Trulock from December 7, 1863 to May 9, 1866 from the family plantation "Prairie Place" to her son in Bridgeport, Connecticut.  Letters describe wartime and postwar conditions, depredations by "graybacks," and a list of property confiscated by Federal troops in October, 1864.  MC 1160.  Finding aid available online.

247.  Towell Family
                 Papers, 1844-1864; 8 items.

Letters and documents pertaining to the Towell family of Piney (Johnson County) Arkansas.  Three of the Towell sons served in the Confederate Army: Issac D. Towell, John W. Towell, and William A. Towell, all initially in the Tenth Arkansas Militia.  William later served as a corporal in Gordon's Arkansas Cavalry, Company D.  Civil War letters include one from J. H. Towell dated Piney, July 18, 1861 describing local excitement over war news; one dated Camden (Ouachita County) Arkansas, July 25, 1864 describing his imprisonment and his reactions to federal soldiers consorting with black females at Pine Bluff (Jefferson County) Arkansas.  MC 616.  Finding aid available online.

248.  United Daughters of the Confederacy, Mildred Lee Chapter No. 98
                 Records, 1897-1990; 2.6 linear feet.

Records and memorabilia created or collected by the Mildred Lee Chapter of Fayetteville, Arkansas.  Organized in 1898, the UDC Mildred Lee Chapter Number 98 is a benevolent, historical, patriotic, and service organization that admits adult women who a lineal or collateral descendants of men and women who served honorably in the Army, Navy or Civil Service of the Confederate States of America.  The records include minutes of meetings, membership applications, treasurer's books, and scrap books which pertain to all the chapter's activities.  Included are historical essays presented at meeting that are brief synopsis of the battles of Helena, Pea Ridge, Prairie Grove, Arkansas and Perryville, Kentucky.  Actual eyewitness accounts include: Fannie Thomasson, a girlhood memory of a fight in Clark County, Arkansas; Margaret Woods, a reminiscence of her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Pace of Northwest Arkansas; J.N. Johnson, a reminiscence of his service with the Fifth Arkansas Infantry (Confederate) during the Atlanta campaign.  A few of the membership application forms have original signed statements from Confederate veterans verifying the service record cited on the form.  MC 1071.  Finding aid available online.

249.  United States. Army. Colored Infantry Regiment, 81st.
 Charges and specifications, 1865.

Courtmartial charges and specifications against First Lieutenant Henry M. Kidder, First Arkansas Cavalry (Union), for conduct unbecoming an officer at Port Hudson, Louisiana, February 10, 1865.  Accusations claim Kidder responded to a sentry's challenge with refusals, cursing, and false information.  MC 1284.

250.  Waggoner Family
                     Papers, 1865-1945; .4 linear feet.

Correspondence, financial and legal papers, diary fragments, and other papers pertaining to the William H. Waggoner family.  Wagoner enlisted in Company B, Seventh Iowa Cavalry in 1862 and saw action in western Nebraska and the Dakota Territory as a teamster during the campaign against the Sioux Indians.  Papers include: pension application forms, ca. 1902, for Waggoner; a statement signed by Captain John Wilcox of Company B, dated November 27, 1865, testifying Waggoner's satisfactory service; a statement signed by Waggoner on July 5, 1898 in support or John A. Pinegar's pension claim; a fragment of the muster roll for Company B dated Fort Heath, Nebraska Territory, April 13, 1865; a diary fragment kept by Waggoner during his service describing hauling supplies to frontier posts and encounters with hostile Indians.  MC 1337.  Finding aid available online.

251.  Washington County Historical Society
                 Collection, ca. 1830-1991; 20 linear feet.

Topical information files maintained by the Washington County Historical Society of Fayetteville, Arkansas, for research and publication in the society's quarterly journal, Flashback.  The collection includes original manuscript materials, typed transcriptions, handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, drawings, and printed ephemera all pertaining to Washington County and its history.  Among the Civil War related materials are: files pertaining to the battles of Fayetteville, Cane Hill, and Prairie Grove; files pertaining to the activities of the Civil War Centennial Commission from 1958-1964; cemetery lists; and other materials which were likely published in Flashback. Of particular note are a number of short essays likely created by members of the Varina Davis (Fort Smith) or Mildred Lee (Fayetteville) chapters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy for presentation at their respective meetings during the 1930s.  These essays have been interfiled with other materials and do not always pertain to Washington County. Included are reminiscences of: Jennie Allen, a girl living in wartime Pulaski County, Arkansas; Annette Dickerson, a young woman living in wartime Fayetteville, Arkansas; Mrs. Montgomery of Gordon County, Georgia.  Military related reminiscences and transcribed diaries include: William H. Clyma, sergeant, Company I, Third Missouri Cavalry (Union), 1862-1863; J.B. Whitworth, private, Comaany E., Fifteenth Arkansas Infantry; John F. Green, Eleventh Georgia Infantry; Manning Davis and Elbert Free, Company E, First Battalion Arkansas Cavalry (Brooks); B. A. Peck, civilian, East Tennessee and Virginia Railway; Jesse S. Hayden, steamboat captain on Arkansas River.  MC 1368.  Finding aid available online.

252.  George W. Weast
                 Ledger, 1861-1864; 1 volume.

Yellville (Marion County) Arkansas merchant and soldier in 14th Arkansas Infantry (Confederate).  Ledger listing customers and items sold by Weast in Yellville during 1861; list of soldiers from Company E, 14th Arkansas Infantry "in camp near Saltillo, Mississippi" listing payroll stoppages and items purchased in 1862; list of payments made in 1864 to H.W. Page for "veneering cases."  MC 1232