** This is a revised Second Edition - April 2014 ** **The editing issues that were in the original work have been corrected. In addition, the revised second edition now includes over forty pages of additional photographs, some never before published, of the commanders as well as how the battlefield looks today from several key places on the battlefield.** In the spring of 1864 following the failed Red River Campaign, two vast armies marched across Southern Arkansas. The Federal Army, trying desperately to get back to the safety of Little Rock, having marched toward Louisiana in support of the...

Diary of a State: 1860 gives a thorough account, through newspaper editorials, of 1860 in Arkansas. This volume includes photographs of some of the movers and shakers in the months leading up to the Civil War in Arkansas. This book also tells a story that has largely been forgotten by ordinary Arkansawyers in their letters to the letter of several Arkansas newspapers. Also included in this volume is a complete index of Arkansas militia companies. The index includes the militia regiment number, the name of each company of militia, the Captain of the company, when that Captain was commissioned,...

Arkansas in the Civil War: 1861 is a documentary chronology of Arkansas in 1861 using only primary sources to tell the story of why Arkansas left the Union in and joined the Confederate States of America. Many of the documents in Arkansas in the Civil War: 1861 have never been published. This is the first time ever the whole story of the first year of the Civil War in Arkansas is told by both sides of the conflict using only primary source documents. Sales of this book help maintain Civil War battle sites in Arkansas. Included in Arkansas in the Civil War: 1861: - complete list of Arkansas...