During the first year of the War Between the States, Arkansas had been on the sidelines as the main actions had taken place in Virginia, Missouri and Kentucky. This was to change as the Federals gained control of Missouri and set their eyes on control of the lower Mississippi River toward the close of 1861. In these selections from period newspapers are both Confederate and Yankee Reports on the Invasion of Arkansas by the Union Army of the South-West under General Samuel R. Curtis in early 1862. Reports on the battle of Elkhorn Tavern, the occupation of parts of northern Arkansas and the...
During the first year of the War Between the States, Arkansas had been on the sidelines as the main actions had taken place in Virginia, Missouri and ...
After seeing newspaper reports of the Black insurrection around Elaine, Phillips County, Arkansas on October 2nd, 1919 Frank Burke, Assistant Director and Chief of the Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D.C., telegraphed William McElveen, Special Agent in Charge of the Memphis, Tennessee office of the Bureau, and ordered him to investigate the situation. McElveen telephoned agents Charles Robert Maxey, Conrad M. Walser, both of Little Rock, and Edwin J. Kerwin, of Pine Bluff, and ordered them to meet him in Helena, from where they started their investigation. Here are reproduced the...
After seeing newspaper reports of the Black insurrection around Elaine, Phillips County, Arkansas on October 2nd, 1919 Frank Burke, Assistant Director...