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Index to Manuscript Resources for the Civil War

Revised and expanded, 2002

In general, numbers refer to entry numbers.

For entry numbers 1-50, "Eliza Adams" to "Samuel Wilson Davies"
For entry numbers 51-100, "Jeff Davis" to "Brackin Lewis"
For entry numbers 101-150, "Lighton Family" to "Emma Eugene Ramsaur Shuford"
For entry numbers 151-204, "Slavery" to "R. F. Yager"
NEW: For entry numbers 205-252, "Peter Wellington Alexander" to "George W. Weast"

Numbers in parentheses indicate page numbers for photographs in the print version of this guide. County names are counties as they existed during the Civil War and Reconstruction; in a few cases, these vary from present county boundaries.

Adams, Eliza 1

Afelt, Johann 4

"Aftermath of Prairie Grove: Union Letters . . ." 144
"Against the Living Forest" 192
Alabama 86, 210, 220
Alabama troops (Confederate), 31st Infantry 117
Albert Pike's Letter to General Holmes 198
Aldridge, Nathaniel Madison 2
Alexander, Peter Wellington 205
Ammons Family 122
Amnesty 27, 93, 158, 183, 214
Anderson, S. S. 41, 205
Andover, New York 34
Antietam, Maryland, battle of 69, 81, 137, 138
Aquarie Creek, Virginia 163
"Arabella Lanktree Wilson's Civil War Letter" 200
Argyle Plantation, Greenville, Mississippi 103
Arkadelphia (Clark County) 1, 21, 25, 62
Arkansas--Constitutional Convention 24, 178; governors 10-12, 51, 62, 74, 79, 88, 90, 105, 114, 149, 166, 179; Military Board 4; politics 52; secretary of state 3; state legislature 24, 139, 211; state legislature journals 3; state senators 196; superintendent of education 172; Supreme Court 196; Supreme Court justices 74, 167; U. S. representatives 142; U. S. senators 10, 51; University of 66, 74, 81, 99, 166
Arkansas College, Fayetteville (Washington County) 49
Arkansas County 29, 95, 142, 181, 200
Arkansas Gazette 203
Arkansas Historical Quarterly 19, 54, 144, 200, 211
Arkansas History Commission 1, 19, 25, 57, 62, 70, 92, 109, 124, 129, 163, 189, 203
Arkansas in War and Reconstruction 166
Arkansas Industrial University, Fayetteville (Washington County) 74, 81
Arkansas Military Posts (Union) 181
Arkansas Post (Arkansas County) 29, 2
Arkansas troops (State--Confederate)

                * Arkansas Enrolled Militia 149
                * Army of Arkansas 124
                            * First Corps 41
                                    * Third Regiment 78
                * Pike Guards 49
                * Randolph's Battalion 41
                * State Guards 79
                * State troops 8, 54

Arkansas troops (Confederate) 185

                * Artillery:
                            * Seventh Field Battery 16
                            * Blocher's Battalion 134
                            * Light Artillery 16
                            * Marshall's Battalion 134
                            * Woodruff's Battery 134
                            * Zimmerman's Battery 16

                * Cavalry:   First 27, 49, 52, 104, 195, 208
                            * First Mounted Rifles 59, 61, 92, 125, 139
                            * Second Mounted Rifles 25, 62, 116
                            * Fourth 106
                            * Chicot Rangers 139
                            * Chrisman's Battalion 45
                            * Dobbin's 52
                            * Fagan's Regiment 195
                            * Gordon's 106
                            * Newton's Regiment 117
                * Infantry:
                            * First 21, 59, 96, 122, 163
                            * Third 22, 107, 122
                            * Fourth 8, 208
                            * Sixth 80
                            * Ninth 211
                            * Twelfth 211
                            * Fifteenth 14, 78, 163
                            * Sixteenth 8, 10, 125, 195
                            * Seventeenth 49
                            * Eighteenth 5, 200
                            * Twenty-second 148
                            * Twenty-fifth 200
                            * Twenty-seventh 47
                            * Thirty-third 213
                            * Thirty-fourth 14, 54, 55, 78, 104, 131, 155, 196
                            * Carroll's Infantry 200
                            * Hobb's Infantry 78
                            * King's Regiment 59
                            * McRae's Infantry 78, 163

Arkansas troops (Union) 85, 187, 188

                * Cavalry:
                            * First 17, 43, 44, 100, 198, 218
                            * Second 59, 86, 120, 206, 211
                            * Third 70
                            * Fourth 74
                * Infantry:
                            * First 75
                            * Second 120
                            * Second (African Descent) 113
                * Militia:   First Home Guard 145

Arkansas troops (Reconstruction)

* Franklin County State Guards 155

Arkansas Whig-Extra 19
Armstrong, F. C. 39
Arsenal, Little Rock (Pulaski County) 182
Arthur, Chester A. 6
Ashley County 150
Assessments, Arkansas 180
Atlanta, Georgia 136; battle of 139, 209
Austin, John 24
Austin Family 24
Badgett, Alfred 7
Badgett, Henry 7
Badgett, Thomas 7
Badgett, William 7
Badin, Norbert 103
Bailey, Joseph M. 8
Balloons, observation (Union) 138
Bank of Fayetteville (Washington County) 74
Bankes, Thomas W. (27)
Baptists (Arkansas) 5
Barnes, Frankie 89
Barnes, Henry M. 89
Barnes, Melzar E. 89
Barnes Family 89
Barton, S. M. 39
Batchelder, Richard M. 184
Bateman, Mary 103
Bates, Clinton Owen 9
Bates County, Missouri 91
Batesville (Independence County) 29, 45, 181
Bath, Virginia 122
Baxter, Elisha 79, 178, 179
Baxter, Jasper 206
Beall, Thomas S. 110, 112
Beall, W. N. R. 39
Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant 179
Belknap, William W. 155
Bellevue, Louisiana 15
Belmont, Missouri 136
Benton (Saline County) 21
Benton County 8, 25, (34), 47, 49, 56, 62, 73, 78, 92, 99, 104, 105, 116, 124, 125, 139, 145, 146, 157, 199, 207
Bentonville (Benton County) (34)
Bentonville, North Carolina, battle of 139
Berry, James Henderson 10, 12, 184, 208
Berry, James Russell 11, 88
Berry, Mary C. 12
Bevins, W. E. 163
Big Bethel, Virginia, battle of 81
Blacks 28, 44, 76, 85, 101, 103, 110, 113, 118, 168, 172-177, 212, 219
Blackwell, North Carolina 7
Bloomfield, Missouri 168
Blore Family 134
Bloyd Family 43
Blunt, James G. 205
Bolding, C. P. 13
Boles, Thomas H. 155, 178, 179
Bolivar, Mississippi 15
Bolivar, Tennessee 78
Bond, Priscilla Munnikhuysen 103
Bonham, Texas 94, 133
Boone County 47
Boston Mountain 125
Boston Mountains 49
Bosworth, George Gardier 145
Boudinot, Elias C. 88, 99, 155, 205
Bowen, John W. 75
Bowen, Thomas Mead 178, 179
Bowling Green, Kentucky 49, 119
Bradley County 111
Bragg Family 210, 213
Bragg, Hosea 210
Bragg, Junius N. 213
Bragg, Samuel N. 210
Braly, Amanda Malvina Fitzallen McClellan 14
Braly, Frank 14
Braly, Frank, Jr. 14
Braly, Laura Hagood 14
Braly, Mary Francis 14
Braly, Samuel 14
Braly, William 14
Brander, Jennie E. 15
Brandy Station, Virginia 69
Brantley, Joseph K. 16
Brasher, Dr. A. D. 30
Brasher, Leona Sumner 30
Brazil, Confederate Emigration to 52
Breckinridge, John C. 216
Breeden, Pompey O. 116
Brice's Cross Roads, Mississippi, battle of 90
Bridges 78, 122
Briggs, H. J. 18
Bringier, Louis Amedee, Family 103
Brock, Jacob 156
Brocktown (Pike County) 203
Bromley, J. N., Mrs. 17
Brooks, Joseph 178, 179
Brooks-Baxter War 62, 63
Brown, John 7
Brown, John Henry 99
Brown, John William 19
Brown, Walter L. 211
Brown, William (15)
Brownsville (Prairie County) 70, 92, 134, 168
Brush Creek (Washington County) 146
Buchanan, Herbert Earle 20
Bull Run, Virginia, first battle of 83, 122
Burbridge, John Q. 205
Burney, Mr. 41
Burnside, Ambrose Everett 179
Burrow, N. B. 39
Burrowsville 181
Burruss, John C., Family 103
Bush, Frederick W. 21
Bushwhackers 46, 197
Butler, Alexander 22
Butler, Emma 22
Butler, George 22
Butler, Henry 22
Butler, Lewis 22
Byington, Cyrus 23
Byroade, Mary Vincenheller 24
Byroade Family 24
Cabell, W. L. 39, 205, 214
Cadron (Conway County) 70
Cadron Hill (Conway County) 200
Cairo, USS (Union ironclad gunboat) 165
California 134, 164
Callaway, Jonathan W. 25
Camden (Ouachita County) 19, 34, 51, 63, 181, 204, 213; Union occupation of 19, 213
Camden Expedition 25, 28, 29, 160, 204
Camp Barton (Highland County), Virginia 107
Camp Blair, Jackson, Michigan 34
Camp Fillmore 181
Camp Jackson (Benton County) 105
Camp Lincoln, Keokuk, Iowa 113
Camp McRae 25
Camp Nevin (Hardin County), Kentucky 119
Camp Walker (Benton County) 92, 124
"Campaign and Battle of Lone Jack, 1862, 1863, 1864<170> 91
Campbell, James M. 26
Campbell, Thomas A. 120
Campbell, Rebecca Ann 212
Cane Hill (Washington County) 14, 54, 78
Cane Hill College, Cane Hill (Washington County) 54
Cane Hill (Washington County), battle of 106, 141
Capell, Eli J., Family 103
Cardwell, Addison F. 27
Cardwell, Thomas A. 27
Cardwell, William Harper 27
Carr, Eugene A. 184
Carr, Pat 49
Carroll County 8, 164
Carroll, Charles A. 205
Carroll, D. W. 39, 211
Carrollton (Carroll County) 164
Carter's Store (Washington County) 100
Cartwright, Samuel Adolphus, Family 103
Cazort Family 117
Cedar Creek, Virginia, battle of 137
Central Arkansas, University of 17
Chadwick, Mary Jane 220
Chalk Bluff 168
Chambers, Armory K. 28
Chambers, Milton P. 28
Chattanooga, Tennessee 25, 89, 163; battle of 220
Chelette, Atala 103
Cherokees 170
Chicago Historical Society 29
Chickamauga, Georgia, battle of 81, 139
Chickasaws 170
Chicot County 30, 139, 219
"Chicot County, Arkansas<197>Pioneer and Present Times<170> 30
Choctaws 23, 170
Church, Ira A. 31
Churchill, Thomas J. 39, 40, 88
Cincinnati (Washington County) 92
Cincinnati, Ohio 24
Cincinnati, USS (Union ironclad gunboat) 165
Clark County 1, 21, 22, 25, 62
Clark, John 20
Clark, M. A. 211
Clarke, George W. 32
Clarksville (Johnson County) 125
Clayton, Mrs. Powell 63
Clayton, Powell 88, 179, 184
Cleburne County 70, 92
Cleburne, Patrick Ronayne 33, 39, 132
Coastal Defense (Confederate) 83
Cockrell, Francis Marion 179
Coffeeville, Mississippi 78
Colburn, Rev. (39)
Cole, Danford D. 34
Cole, Eunice 34
Coleman and Withirs 52
Colorado 134
Colorado troops (Union)

* Cavalry: Second 101

Columbus, Kentucky 95, 113
Combs Family 43
Combs, Joel A. 43
Confederate Cemetery, Fayetteville (Washington County) 78, 157
Confederate Congress 64, 87
Confederate States Army<197>chaplains 22, 51; commissary 41; commissions 79; medical care 20, 30, 47, 53, 140; orders 40, 41, 205; provisioning 16, 32, 41, 53, 55, 61, 94, 116, 133, 156, 194, 205, 214; Rock Hotel Hospital 140; staff officers 39, 205, 214

                * Army of the Mississippi, Second Army 202
                * Army of the Southwest 160
                * Army of the Tennessee, Polk's Corps 202
                * District of Arkansas 40
                * District of the Indian Territory 37, 38
                * Fourth Confederate Engineer Corps 78
                * Southern Department of Coastal Defense 83
                * Trans-Mississippi Department 40, 41, 83, 94, 159, 205
                     See also listings under state names.

Confederate States of America, Indian treaties 35; mail 159; money and bonds 115; secretaries of state 87; secretary of war 36; senators 87; vice-president 162
Confederate Veterans 142, 189, 213; Veterans' widows (Arkansas) 189
Connelly, William E. 214
Constitutional Convention (Arkansas) 24, 178
Converse College, Spartansburg, South Carolina 150
Conway (Faulkner County) 122
Conway County 78, 116, 200
Cook, Gertrude Fallin 43
Cooper, Douglas H. 133
Corinth, Mississippi 8, 10, 25, 29, 49, 70, 73, 78, 104, 122, 136, 163, 220; battle of 104
Corsicana, Texas 196
Corum Family 43
Cotton 48, 111, 186, 198, 219
Cotton Plant (Woodruff County) 45, 50
Cowgill, Addison J. H. 134
Cowgill, Annie Eliza 134
Cowgill Family 134
Crawford County 24, 25, 41, 57, 58, 64, 94, 126, 148, 151, 155, 157, 167, 181
Crawford, Hildred Mayhill 192
Crawford, Wm. A. 39
Creeks 170
Crook, George 220
Crosswell, Mary 44
Crosswell, Micah S. 44
Crouch, W. A. 45
Crowell, M. S. 46
Crump, George 47
Crump, Joe Wright 47
Crump, Josephene B. 47
Culpepper Court House, Virginia 59, 69
Cumberland Gap, Tennessee 25
Cumberland Presbyterians 14, 54
Currency 27, 115
Currie, James B. 48
Curtis, Samuel Ryan 160
Cypert, Jesse Newton 158
Cypert Family 158
Dallas County 19, 22, 80
Dallas, Texas 106
Danish West Indies (U. S. Virgin Islands) 71
Dardanelle (Yell County) 118
Davidson, Rebecca Stirman 49
Davies, Samuel Wilson 50
Davis, David 90
Davis, Ina McKenzie Thatch 51
Davis, Jeff 51
Davis, Jefferson 129, 216
Davis, Mrs. Jefferson 99, 216
Davis, S. W. 39
Dawson, William Cosby 205
Dayne, E. B. 199
"Dear Parents": The Civil War Letters of the Shibley Brothers 148
Decatur, Illinois 31
Des Arc (Prairie County) 78, 92
Desha County 181
Devil's Backbone (Sebastian County), battle of 208
Diaries and journals 1, (4), 5, 14, 69, 70, 73, 89, 92, 99, 103, 111, 116, 117, 118, 123, 134, 139, 142, 146, 152, 155, 163, 200, 216, 219, 220
Dobbins, Archibald S. (9), 52
Dockery, T. P. 39
Dodd, David O. (27, 39), 134
Dorn, Earl Van 191
Douglas, Stephen A. 220
Dover (Pope County) 181
Drew County 53, 181
Dudley, William W. 100
Duels 109
Duke University 83
Dunlap, Dr. Albert 53
DuVal, Benjamin T. 178, 214
DuVall's Bluff (Prairie County) 34, 70, 95, 181
Dyer, W. T. 78
Eagle, James P. 39
Eagle House (34)
Eakin, John R. 88, 178
Earle, Amanda Buchanan 54
Earle, Fontaine Richard 54, 55, 78
"Earle-Buchanan Letters, 1861-1877" 54
Edmonson Family 215
Edmunds, George Franklin 179
Education and educators 15, 69, 172, 174, 200
El Dorado (Union County) 122, 181
Elkin's Ford (Nevada County), battle of 28
Ellis, Clyde T. 56
Ellsworth family 216
Ellsworth, Prosper H. 216
Endicott, William C. 184
Engels, William H. 218
Engineering 67, 78, 127, 142
English, Elbert Hartwell 178, 179
Eno, Clara Bertha 57, 58, 109
"Episode During the Civil War<170> 143
Evansville (Washington County) 92
Excelsior Farm (Washington County) 145
"Facts and Reminiscences, Recorded by Hon. James R. Berry<170> 11
Fagan, James F. 39, 205, 214
Fallin, Robert R. 43
Fallin Family 43
Farmington (Washington County) 149
Farmington, Mississippi 163; battle of 139
Farmington Falls, Maine 44
Fatherly, Richard 184
Faucette, George C. 59
Faucette, Thomas Ray 59
Faucette Family 59
Faulkner County 122
Fayetteville (Washington County) 26, 27, 43, 46, 49, 50, 66, 74, 101, 104, 135, 144, 152, 155, 181, 192, 196, 198, 218; battle of 99; burning of 49
Featherstone, Lewis Porter 184
Fellows, Homer F. 60
Ferguson, M. 44
Ferry, Thomas White 179
Fitzhugh's Woods, battle of 117
Flanagin, Harris 39, 62, 74
Fletcher, Susan Bricelin 63
Flint, A. B. 20
Forbes, W. A. 49
Ford, Horace J. 219
Fordyce, Samuel W. 220
Foreman, J. G. 161
Forest, Nathan Bedford 127
Fort Arbuckle 41
Fort Cobb, Washington Territory 214
Fort Coffee 181
Fort Curtis 181
Fort Donelson, Tennessee 119; battle of 127
Fort Gibson, Indian Territory 46, 181, 201, 214
Fort Kearney, Nebraska 101
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas 101
Fort Logan Roots 181
Fort McCulloch, Indian Territory 129
Fort Pickens, Florida 210
Fort Pillow, Tennessee 200
Fort Smith (Sebastian County) 24, 32, 41, 44, 46, 53, 64, 75, 76, 92, 94, 104, 113, 121, 148, 150, 151, 155, 156, 181, 193, 214; National Historic Site 65
Fort Washita, Indian Territory 41, 94
Fowler, Pleasant 39
Frailey, Jonathan 41
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper 165
Franklin County 86, 155
Franklin, Tennessee, battle of 33, 139
Fredericksburg, Virginia, battle of 137
Freedmen 44, 103
Freedmen's Bureau 44
French, Samuel G. 184
Fry, Charles William 67
Fuess, Joseph F. 97
Futrall, Emma R. Headen 66
Futrall, John C. 66
Futrall Family 66
Gainesville, Texas 124
Galveston, Texas 52
Gantt, E. W. 39
Garfield, James A. 68, 220
Garland, Augustus Hill 184
Garland County 181, 203
Garner, Henrietta 117
Garner, W. W. 117
Garner Family 117
Gaugan, Helen Bragg 213
Georgia troops (Confederate)

* Infantry: Fifteenth 162

Gettysburg Address 102
Gibbons, John R. 69
Gillem, Alvan Cullom 178
Gillet, Orville 70
Gist, Ariel Idella Hottel 71
Glenwood, Iowa 28
Glenn, G. W. (31)
Goodwin, Lou Wilson 50
Gorman, Willis 95
Govan, D. C. 39
Grace, W. P. 178
Grand Army of the Republic (Arkansas) 31
Grant County 14, 28, 47, 54, 148, 196, 198
Grant, Lewis Addison 184
Grant, Ulysses S. 72, 90
Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign 78
Gratiot, John R. 78
Grave-marking Commission 10
Graves, L. H. 73
Green Grove (Conway County) 78
Green Ridge, Kentucky 196
Green, B. W. 52
Greenlee, T. J. 47
Gregg, Lafayette (15), 74, 145, 178
Gregg Family 74
Grenada, Mississippi 14, 163
Grimes, Marshall 94
Gunboats (Union) 145, 163, 165, 200
Gunter, Thomas M. 39
Guntown, Mississippi, battle of 90
Gurdon (Clark County) 22
Hagood, Laura (4), 14
Hale, W. M. 75
Halleck, H. W. 90
Hamilton Mills 195
Hancock, Benjamin F. 200
Haney, Samuel 75
Haney Family 75
Hanks, James Millinder 178, 179
Hardy Family 158
Harlan, James 130
Harper's Weekly 165
Harrington, J. C. 65
Harris, Albert 76
Harris, H. S. 211
Harris, Lizzie Sebastian 179
Harris, Robert D. 206
Harrison, Benjamin 77, 134
Harrison, Fannie 78
Harrison, James M. 78
Harrison, Marshal LaRue 44, 198
Harrison, Richard P. 78
Harrison, William M. 178
Harrison (Boone County) 47
Hawthorn, Alex T. 39
Hays, T. S. 31
Helena (Phillips County) 18, 28, 29, 33, 45, 95, 110, 112, 113, 145, 160, 161, 165, 181, 186; battle of 14, 54, 78, 83, 113, 117, 134, 148
Hempstead, Fay 184
Hempstead County 3, 34, 52, 53, 62, 63, 88, 143, 181, 203
Henderson, Louisiana 111
Henry L. Chandler 122
Henry, Eugene B. 79
Henry, John D. 80
Henry family 80, 211
Henry, Phillip G. 211
Herron, Francis J. 205
Hiawassee Purchase, Tennessee 145
Hill, Daniel Harvey 81, 205
Hill, I. C. 107
Hilliard, Miriam Brannin 103
Hindman, Thomas Carmichael 39, 41, 52, 82, 88, 94, 99, 202, 205
Hodges, Asa 178
Holmes, Theophilus Hunter 41, 83, 84, 88, 94, 197, 205
"Hon. James H. Berry<170> 12
Hornet's Nest 25
Hot Springs (Garland County) 203; Army and Navy Hospital 181
Hottel, William F. 71
Houlton, William H. 46
Howard, Benjamin Franklin 116
Howell, S. I. 167
Howell, Samuel C. 86
Hubbard, E. C. 29
Huckaby, Elizabeth Paisley 22
Huddleston Family 117
Hughes, George 86
Hughes, George P. 86
Hughes, Michael A. 85
Hughes, Moses, Family (18), 86
Hughes, Polly Ann 86
Hugh[e]s, Sarah (18)
Hunter, Robert Mercer Taliaferro 87
Huntington Library 88
Huntsville, Alabama 220
Huntsville (Madison County) 11, 75, 181, 197
Hurley, John T. 214
Hutcheson, Roy G. 89
Illinois 89; State Historical Library 90
Illinois troops (Union)

                * Cavalry:
                            * Fourth 90, 127
                * Infantry:
                            * Thirteenth 29
                            * Twenty-first 72
                            * Thirty-fourth 89
                            * Thirty-seventh 199
                            * Forty-third 97
                            * Forty-fourth 209
                            * Sixty-first 29
                            * Eighty-first 142
                            * Ninety-fourth 90
                            * One hundred and sixth 216

In Fine Spirits 49
Independence County 29, 45, 181
Indian Territory 23, 94, 130, 133, 170, 171; military posts (Union) 181
Indian Territory troops (Union)

* Indian Home Guards, Third 106

Indiana troops (Union)

                * Artillery:
                            * Second Battery 106
                * Cavalry:
                            * Fifth 106
                * Infantry:
                            * Seventieth 77

Indians 23, 98; in Civil War 23; in Confederate States Army 94, 209; relations with the United States 170, 171; relations with Confederate States of America 37, 38; treaties with Confederate States of America 35; Wichita Agency 98
Iowa troops (Union)

                * Cavalry:
                            * Fourth 90
                * Infantry:
                            * Fourth 112
                            * Twenty-ninth 28, 110
                            * Thirty-sixth 113

Iran 116
Ironclads (Union) 145, 163, 165, 200
Island Number 10, Missouri 70
Iuka, Mississippi 29, 104
Jackman, Sidney D. 91
Jackson, Mississippi 143; battle of 139
Jackson County 163, 181
Jacksonport (Jackson County) 163, 181
Jefferson County 51, 113, 181, 200
Jenkins, John Carmichael, Family 103
Jenkins' Ferry (Grant County), battle of 14, 28, 47, 54, 148, 196, 198, 208, 213
Jesup, Thomas Sydney 184
Jobe, Thomas Jefferson 92
Johnson, Andrew 93
Johnson, C. B. 41
Johnson, Charles B. 94, 133
Johnson, Hershel V. 162
Johnson, Isabella 118
Johnson, James Augustus 178
Johnson, Robert 93
Johnson, Robert Ward (12), 64, 88, 179, 184
Johnson, Samuel Hugh 118
Johnson County 117, 125
Johnson's Island, Ohio 5, 47
Johnston, Andrew 95
Jones, James Kimbrough 184
Jones, Joseph Hubbard 96
Judson, C. O. 121
Kansas Rooks County Record 141
Kansas Territory 128
Kansas troops (Union)

                * Cavalry:
                            * Ninth 158
                * Infantry:
                            * Tenth 201
                            * Eleventh 141

Keitsville, Missouri 29
Kelly, John H. 39
Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia, battle of 139
Ketchum, Delazon 29
King, John 214
Kingsbury, Charles P. 184
Knighton, Barney (27, 39)
Knoxville, Tennessee 163
Koerner, G. A. 97
Ku Klux Klan (Arkansas) 142
Lake County, Illinois 199
Lamar (Johnson County) 117
Lanigan, Thomas 41, 94
Lawrence, James 29
Leard, Sanders Walkers 59
Leard Family 59
Lebanon, Missouri 153
Lebanon, Tennessee 197
Lee County 71
Lee County, Illinois 89
Lee, Robert E. 205, 216
Lee's Centre, Illinois 89
Leeper, Matthew 98
Lemke, Walter John 99, 196
Leslie, James W. 200
Lewis, Brackin 100
Lewisburg (Pulaski County) 70, 116
Lewisville (Miller County) 195
Library of Congress 6, 68, 72, 77, 93, 102, 128, 147, 190
Liddell, Moses, Family 103
Life and Letters of Judge David Walker 196
Lighton, William R., Family 101
Lincoln, Abraham 60, 102, 114, 160, 217
Lincoln, Mary Todd 102
Little Rock 4, 11, 24, 28, 41, 47, 51, 52, 63, 70, 74, 76, 78, 90, 92, 94, 97, 104, 113, 116, 126, 127, 140, 142, 148, 155, 160, 168, 181, 198, 203, 211; arsenal and barracks 184; capture and occupation of 62, 134, 214; military post 182
Logan, John Andrew 178
Lone Jack, Missouri, battle of 91
Louisiana 210
Louisiana State University 103
Louisiana troops (Confederate)

* Infantry:
* Third 30

Louisville, Kentucky 19
Lyon, Nathaniel 29
Madison (St. Francis County) 181
Madison County 11, 75, 181, 197
Magruder, Eliza L. 103
Malvern Hill, Virginia, battle of 83
Manassas Junction, Virginia 138
Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart 162
Manning, Van H. 39
Mansfield, Louisiana, battle of 213
Mansfield, Texas 94
Marianna (Lee County) 71
Marion, Elizabeth Van Hoose 192
Marion County 195
Marks Mill, battle of 208
Marmaduke, John Sappington 108, 109, 179, 205
Marmaduke's raid into Missouri 117
Marshall, Texas 159
Marshall, W. S. 22
Martin, Benjamin W., Family 111
Martin, Elihu G. 110
Maryland 216
Massachusetts 23
Massachusetts troops (Union)

* Infantry: Eleventh 144

Maysville (Benton County) 92
McClellan's Peninsula Campaign (Virginia) 138
McClure, John 178, 179
McClurkin, J. W. 117
McClurkin Family 117
McCollom, Albert 104
McCollom, Ransom 104
McCollom, Robert 104
McCollom, William 104
McCormick, James W. 123
McCormick Family 123
McCrary, George Washington 184
McCulloch, Benjamin 73, 99, 105, 124
McDonald, Alexander 178, 179
McDonald, Allen, Family 86
MacDonald, Emmett 205
McIlroy Family 106
McIntosh, James 39
McKenzie, Duncan G. L. 51
McKinney, Texas 73
McLendon, Isaac C. P. 107
McMaken, Andrew Campbell 101
McMurtry Family 43
McNair, Evander 39
McNary County, Tennessee 136
McRae, Dandridge 39, 205
Medical care 20, 23, 29, 30, 47, 53, 57, 63, 110, 119, 137, 140, 144, 168, 170, 181, 194
Meigs, Montgomery Cunningham 184
Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana 103
Memphis and Little Rock Railroad 39
Memphis, Tennessee 19, 78, 95, 125, 156, 163, 165

* yellow fever epidemic (1878) 194

Messer, E. N. B. 199
Messer, E. P. 199
Mexican War 145
Mexico 184
Meyers, Captain 41
Michigan troops (Union)

                * Cavalry:
                            * Third 70
                * Infantry:
                            * Twelfth 34

Middle Creek, Kentucky, battle of 68
Miles, Nelson Appleton 184
Miller, David (22)
Miller, John A. 112
Miller, Minos (22), 113
Miller, William R. 178
Miller County 31, 195
Mills, J. C. 211
Minnesota Historical Society 46
Minnesota troops (Union)

                * Infantry:
                            * Third 4
                            * Eighth 46

Minor, William J., Family 103
Missionary Baptists (Arkansas) 5
Mississippi Central Rail Road 78
Mississippi River 101, 143, 145, 165, 219
Mississippi troops (Confederate)

* Infantry:
* Forty-first 13

Missouri 25, 29

* governors 88
* Historical Society 114

Missouri troops (Confederate)

                * Cavalry:   "Arkansas Mounted Men of the Missouri Cavalry<170> 154
                            * Parsons's Brigade 195
                            * Shelby's Brigade 204

Missouri troops (Union)

                * Artillery:
                            * Second 168
                * Infantry:
                            * Third 161

Mitchell, Dr. Robert 29
Mitchell, William C. 39
Monette, James 103
Monroe, James C. 39
Montgomery County 203
Monticello (Drew County) 53, 18
Moore, George 211
Moose, James Sayles 116
Moose, May Hope 117
Moose, Melbourne 116
Moose Family 117
Morgan, T. J. 39
Morris, John Wortman 17
Morrow, Mary Hannah Johnson 118
Mound City, USS (Union ironclad gunboat) 145, 165
Mount Ida (Montgomery County) 203
Mount Sequoyah, Fayetteville (Washington County) 157
Mount Solon (Augusta County), Virginia 69
Mountain City Gazette 131
Mt. Ayr, Iowa 110, 112
Munson, G. D. "Gib<170> 119
Munson, H. D. 119
Munson, William O. 119
Murfreesboro (Pike County) 203
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 119; battle of 20, 209, 220
Murphy, Isaac 11, 88, 149, 166, 178, 179
Muster Out Rolls (Union) 120
Nashville, Tennessee 142, 165, 209, 220; battle of 139
Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana 103
National Archives 32, 35-40, 61, 82, 84, 108, 140, 153, 169-188, 191, 202
National Park Service 56
Nebraska troops (Union)

* Cavalry:
* First 101

Neis, Anton 121
Nevada County 28
New Madrid, Missouri, Siege of 70
New Mexico Campaign 158
New Orleans, Louisiana 52, 111
New York troops (Union)

* State Militia 6
* Infantry: 121st 137

Newhall, Henry M. 90
Newspapers 134, 160, 203
Newton County 205
Newton, Robert C. 41, 94, 178, 205
Newton, North Carolina 150
Nicaragua 158
Nicholson, Alfred Osborne 179
Nicolay, John G. 102
Noble, Henry B. 184
Norment, Jane E. 51
Norment, Wilbur F. 51
North Carolina 59, 83, 88; Department of Archives and History 81; University of 7
North Carolina troops (Confederate)

                * Infantry:
                            * First 81
                            * Sixth 59
                            * Thirty-first 59

Oates, O. H. 52
Oaths of allegiance 18, 24, 43, 75, 107, 116, 121, 198
Ohio troops (Union)

                * Artillery:
                            * Twenty-fifth Battery 168
                * Cavalry:
                            * First 220
                * Infantry:
                            * Third 119
                            * Fifteenth 119
                            * Forty-second 68
                            * Forty-sixty 211
                            * Seventy-eighth 119

Oklona, Mississippi 13
Old Family 59
"Old Knapsack, The<170> 155
Orme, William Ward 90
Osborne, Molsie A. R. 122
Ouachita County 19, 34, 51, 63, 181, 204
Page, Henry 178, 184
Paisley, Emma Butler 22
Paris, Texas 94
Park, Ruie Ann Smith 148
Parks, Myrtle McCormick 123
Paroles 13, 27
Parsons, M. Monroe 39, 205
Pat Cleburne, Confederate General: A Definitive Biography 33, 132
Pea Ridge (Benton County) 157; battle of 8, 25, (34), 47, 49, 56, 62, 73, 78, 99, 104, 116, 139, 146, 199, 209
Pearce, Nicholas Bartlett 39, 88, 124
Peck Family 59
Peckins, W. F. 90
Peel, James W. 164
Peel, James Wilson 125
Peel, John Wilson 125
Peel, Margaret 125
Peel, Richard M. 125
Pemberton, John C. 27
Pennsylvania, University of 7
Pennsylvania troops (Union)

* Infantry:
* Tenth Reserve 138

Pennywit, Phillip 126
Pensions 101, 127, 189

* claims 59, 100, 137
* widows' 34, 127

Pernot, Dr. Henri 57
Perryville, Kentucky, battle of 209, 220
Peters, Arthur Nelson 127
Peters, Henry N. 127
Phelps, John 111
Phifer, Charles W. 39
Phillips, William A. 106
Phillips County 14, 18, 28, 29, 33, 45, 52, 54, 78, 83, 95, 110, 112, 113, 117, 134, 145, 148, 160, 161, 165, 181, 186
Phinley, Phenie 22
Pierce, Franklin 128
Pierson, John J. 14
Pike, Albert 39, 41, 62, 94, 129, 130, 133, 201
Pike County 203
Pilot Knob, Missouri, battle of 208
Pine Bluff (Jefferson County) 51, 113, 181, 200; battle of 200; Union occupation of 200
"Pioneer Merchant" 116
Pittman, James M. 155
Pittman, Samuel Pinckney 131, 155
Pittsburg 167
Pittsburg, North Carolina 66
Pittsburg, USS (Union ironclad gunboat) 165
Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee 127
Planet (Steamboat) 101
Plantations (Arkansas) 19, 63, 103, 211, 219

                * (Louisiana) 103
                * (Mississippi) 103
                * (North Carolina) 7

Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, battle of 213
Pocahontas (Randolph County) 80
Poinsett, Joel Roberts 184
Poison Springs (Ouachita County) battle of 208
Polk, Leonidas 216
Polk, Lucius 39
Pollard, Mary Stirman 49
Pope, John 184
Pope County 181
Port Gibson, Mississippi, battle of 78
Port Hudson, Louisiana 5
Port Hudson, Mississippi 8
Postage stamps (Arkansas Confederate) 27
Potomac River 122
Pound Gap, Kentucky, battle of 68
Powell, Joseph D. 106
Powell, Margaret 106
Powell Family 106
Prairie County 34, 70, 78, 92, 95, 134, 142, 146, 181
Prairie D'Ane (Nevada County), battle of 28, 208
Prairie Grove (Washington County) 94, 106, 123, 145, 157; battle of 9, 14, 17, 54, 78, 82, 90, 99, 106, 131, 141, 144, 148, 155, 205, 213; Battlefield Commission 99
Presbyterians 14, 50, 54
Price, John G. 178, 179, 184
Price, Sterling 101, 124
Price's 1864 raid into Missouri 208, 214
Priceville, Mississippi 125
Prison camps (Confederate)

* Andersonville 137

Prison camps (Union)

                * Alton, Illinois 153
                * Bowling Green, Kentucky 49
                * Iuka, Mississippi 73
                * Johnson's Island, Ohio 5, 47
                * Little Rock, Arkansas 104

Prisoners and prisons 5, 8, 10, 37, 47, 49, 73, 104, 113, 123, 137, 146, 153, 220
Pulaski County 4, 11, 24, 28, 41, 47, 51, 52, 62, 63, 70, 74, 76, 78, 90, 92, 94, 97, 104, 113, 116, 126, 127, 134, 140, 142, 148, 155, 160, 168, 181, 182, 184, 198, 203, 204
Purdue, Elizabeth 33, 132
Purdue, Richard Howell 33, 132
Quesenbury, William Minor 94, 130, 133
Quitman (Van Buren County) 117
Rabb, John W. 106
Ragland, Lorraine Blore 134
Ragland, Nathaniel Madison 135
Ragland Family 134
Railroads 39, 78, 167
Rains, James S. 205
Ramsaur, John Franklin 150
Ramsaur, Lee M. 39
Ramsaur, Sarah 150
Randolph, Madison A. 120
Randolph County 80
Rawlins, John Aaeon 184
Ray, William Stephen 136
Reconstruction 3, 11, 44, 58, 62, 93, 142, 166; (Arkansas) 145, 155, 167, 178, 179, 194, 214; (Texas) 26
"Reconstruction Days in Arkansas" 58
Rector, Frank A. 39
Rector, Henry Massey 62, 90, 105, 184
Red Fork (Desha County) 181
Red River Expedition 25, 28, 29, 160, 204
Redwood City, California 164
Reed, Isaac 90
Religion-Ministers 5, 14, 50, 51, 54, 135; missionaries 23
Reminiscences and memoirs 9, 11, 50, 55, 58, 63, 91, 96, 124, 131, 136, 139, 143, 146, 158
Remmel, William 137
Reparation Claims 24, 51
Republican Party 155; in Arkansas 142, 145
Resaca, Georgia, battle of 139
Reynard, Alphes 138
Reynolds, Daniel Harris 39, 139
Reynolds, Joseph Jones 179, 184
Reynolds, Thomas C. 88
Rhea, William H. 106
Rhea Family 106
Rice, Benjamin Franklin 178, 179
Richmond, Virginia 138, 143
Riddick Family 122
Rienzi, Mississippi 2
Roane, John Selden 39, 205
Robertson, Thomas James 179
Robertson Family 149
Rock Hotel Hospital, Little Rock (Pulaski County) 140
Rogers, Anthony Astley Cooper 178
Rogers, John Henry 184
Rolla, Missouri 29
Rooks, John Calvin 141
Roots, Logan Holt 142, 178, 184
Roots, Philander Keep 142
Roots Family 142
Rose, Uriah Milton 143
Rothrock, Thomas 54
Routh, Dr. H. L. 47
Royston, Gradison D. 62
Russell, Dr. Ira 144
Russell, Erwin 144
Russell, Fred 144
Rust, A. 39
Rutherford, Joseph Robinson 145
Sabotage 153
Sagely, John C. 59
Sagely, Joseph M. 59
St. Charles (Arkansas County) 95, 181, battle of, 205
St. Francis County 181
St. James Parish, Louisiana 101
St. John's College, Little Rock (Pulaski County) 182; Military Hospital 47
St. Johnsbury, Vermont 76
St. Louis, Missouri 113, 144, 186
Salem Chapel, Virginia 137
Saline County 21
Sandborn, John B. 44
Sanders, Joseph B. 146
Santa Fe, New Mexico 76
Schlaich, J. 201
Scott, S. S. 39
Scott County 94
Searcy (White County) 158
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