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Grant in Arkansas and Missouri The Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant Grant in Arkansas and Missouri Arkansas in the Civil War: Letters to Dear Joe: Paths Taken, Paths Not Taken Diary of a Civil War soldier Vol.35, No. 1, APRIL 2011 MISSION: The mission of the Fort Smith Historical Society, Inc., founded in 1977, is to publish The Journal of the Fort Smith Historical Society and through The Journal and other activities to locate, identify and collect historical data; to publish source materials and historical articles, all pertaining to the City of Fort Smith and the immediate surrounding area. Preservation of Fort Smith history is our primary mission and to this end, we always welcome the loan of Fort Smith historical material and will return it promptly. MEMBERSHIP & ORDERS: Journal back issues are QUESTIONS pertaining to the Fort Smith Historical available. Cost for the current issue is $7.50 plus a $2 Society or The Journal should be addressed via e-mail to: mailing charge per copy. Cost for past issues is $4 plus Jerry Akins [email protected] the $2 mailing charge. A composite index for Volumes I Joe Wasson [email protected] through IX is available for $10 plus a $4 mailing charge. Billy Higgins [email protected] Cost for the complete set of Journals, Volumes 1 through 34, is $225. Volumes I and II will be reproduced copies, as these copies are no longer available in original form. VISIT OUR WEBSITE! http://www.fortsmithhistory.org Our website is updated regularly and contains information Membership in the Fort Smith Historical Society on the Organization, Membership, Back issues: How to includes a subscription to The Journal of the Fort Smith order. Tables of Contents of Back Issues, Contacts & Historical Society, which is published semi-annually. Links, Archives, and a Gallery of Historic Images: Views Correspondence concerning current or back issues of of old Fort Smith. The Journal, membership dues, and all business matters, should be sent to: See the Google group. Fort Smith History Forum, for a bulletin board of current research questions. Readers may Fort Smith Historical Society post their own research questions or topics in hopes of Attention: Nancy Ciulla, Treasurer furthering their own research. P.O. Box 3676 Fort Smith, AR 72913-3676 Webmaster: A1 Whitson, [email protected] MANUSCRIPTS: Submissions of all types of Fort Smith, Arkansas, related materials including previously unpublished family Bibles, diaries, journals, letters, old maps, church minutes or histories, cemetery information, family histories, and other documents are welcome. Manuscripts, including quotations and footnotes, must be double-spaced, using The Chicago Manual of Style (University of Chicago Press). Footnotes should be numbered consecutively in the text, assembled at the end of the article, along with a list of any additional sources. The author's name, address, phone number and e-mail address should appear only on the title page. Manuscripts may be submitted on CD disks, using word-processing programs supported by Windows. Photographs should be duplicates or submitted in digital format, documents should be photocopies, as they cannot be returned. Manuscripts are subject to editing for style and space requirements. All articles and images accepted will become the property of the Fort Smith Historical Society, Inc. unless return is specifically requested. Submit to: Managing Editors The Journal of the Fort Smith Historical Society P.O. Box 3676 Fort Smith, AR 72913-3676 Neither the Fort Smith Historical Society nor the editorial staff assumes any responsibility for statements, whether of fact or opinion, made by contributors. AMELIA WHITAKER MARTIN Journal Editor & Co-Founder 1977-2004 EDITORIAL BOARD: Carole Barger, Managing Editor Joe Wasson, Associate Editor Billy Higgins J0URNAL Clara Jane Rubarth Martha Siler Leita Spears Jacqulyn West Contents VOL 35, NO. 1 APRIL 2011 CONSULTING EDITOR: Carolyn Pollan Ray Baker: In Memoriam 2 News & Opportunities 3 INDEXING: Joe Wasson Arkansas in the Civil War: Paths Taken, Paths Not taken 9 By Tom DeBlack OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Al Whitson, President Marvel Rhyne: Letters to Dear Joe 13 Jo Ann Campbell, Recording Secretary The Personal Memoirs Of Ulysses S. Grant: Calline Ellis, Corresponding Secretary Wincie Hendricks, Membership Chairman Grant In Missouri and Arkansas 26 Nancy Ciulla, Treasurer By Kevin L. Jones Jerry Akins Carole Barger Steamboats and Beyond: Steamboat Captain Hugh L. Rogers 33 Jimmy Ciulla Elvin Frick By Charles Edward Rogers Jerry Hendricks Billy Higgins Samuel White: A Man About Town 39 Bill Kirk By Evelyn E. Tonia Holleman George McGill Keri Powers Frederick James Ransom: 1926-2011 42 Dorothy Rapport By Carole Barger Clara Jane Rubarth Martha Siler Hangin' Times in Fort Smith: John Stansberry 44 Leita Spears By Jerry Akins Joanne Swafford Rena Westbrook 1911 Newspapers 47 Joe Wasson By Wincie Hendricks Membership in the Fort Smith Historical Society includes subscription to The Journal Book Review: Velda Brotherton's The Boston Mountains 49 of the Fort Smith Historical Society, which By Loren Gruber is published semi-annually. Membership year begins January 1 and ends December 31. Index 50 For membership, send dues with your name and mailing address to: The Fort Smith Historical Society, Inc. COVER: Main photo: Poster created during the Civil War. Image courtesy of the National PO. Box 3676 Archives, Record Group 165: Records of the War Department General and Special Fort Smith, Arkansas 72913-3676 Staffs, 1860-1952 Types of memberships: Top right photo: General Ulysses 8. Grant works on his memoirs shortly before his Annual $ 30.00 death. Image courtesy of Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. Senior Citizens (62 or older) 15.00 Lower right photo: Marvel and Jacintha Sue Sadler Rhyne. Photo courtesy of Karen Annual Sustaining 50.00 Carroll Jackson. Joint Membership with Fort Smith Museum of History. .100.00 © Copyright 2011 ISSN 0736 4261 Annual Business Sponsor 200.00 by the Fort Smith Historical Society, Inc. Life (Individual) 350.00 c/o Fort Smith Public Library Journal Back Issues Each copy 4.00 3201 Rogers Avenue (For mail orders, add $2.00 mailing charge per copy.) Mailing address: P.O. Box 3676 Composite Index Fort Smith, Arkansas 72913-3676 for Volumes I thru IX 10.00 (For mail orders, add $4.00 mailing charge per copy.) CHANGE OF ADDRESS Change of address cards are free at your post office. We welcome the loan of Fort Smith historical If you move, please fill one out and send it to: material and will return promptly. P.O. Box 3676 • Fort Smith, Arkansas 72913-3676 The Fort Smith Historical Society, Inc. is a nonprofit organization under Sec. 501 (c) (3) No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any form, except for of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. Gifts brief excerpts for review purposes, without the consent of the editors of and legacies are tax deductible. The Journal. In Memoriam C. Ray Baker Jr. 1939-2011 harles Ray Baker Jr., beloved mayor of Fort Smith for twenty years, passed away March 4, C2011 at his home. He was born on August 8, 1939, in St. Edward Hospital to parents, Charles Ray and Helen Westbrooke Baker, who preceded him in death. He is survived by his wife of 46 years, Nancy; son, Brett and his wife, Mary, and children, Alexis and Zachary; daughter. Tiffany Null and her husband, Greg, and their children Hannah, Rachel and Jacob; two sisters. Toy of Fort Smith and Theda Jackson and her husband, Ron, of Greenwood. Ray attended Rogers Elementary, Darby Junior High and Fort Smith High School (Northside). He always wanted to teach and to pursue a career in politics, and determined to achieve these goals by attending Fort Smith Junior College (now the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith), Peabody College, and University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. He later received a master's degree in education from the University of Arkansas. Ray began his teaching career at Ramsey Junior High in 1961, later transferring to the newly constructed Southside High School in 1963. He was a member of the original staff at Southside, where he taught history for forty-four years. He was the last remaining and I could change the world." member of the original Southside staff at the time of his Baker entered city politics in 1981, when he was retirement in May 2007. elected director at large, a position he held until 1990. Baker was chairman of the Social Studies In 1990, he made the decision to run for mayor and Department and was Senior Class sponsor at Southside was elected and re-elected four more times, resulting for thirty-three years. A Fulbright Scholar in 1964, he in his serving as mayor for twenty years. He loved studied for six weeks at the University of Beirut, and this community and its citizens and was the No. 1 was also a Milken Foundation Award winner. He was cheerleader for Fort Smith, the face of Fort Smith. His selected as the Arkansas Teacher of the year in 1984, dedication to this city and its citizens was tireless. Ray and one of the three finalists for National Teacher of the was full of love and compassion, a friend to everyone, Year. He was the Daughters of the American Revolution always ready to help with city and community National American History Teacher of the Year in 1984. endeavors as well as church activities. He was the president of the Fort Smith Classroom He taught the Uplifters Sunday School at First Teachers Association and the president of the Arkansas United Methodist Church, an intergenerational class of Education Association. adults from their thirties to retirement age, for more than Southside Principal Wayne Haver said Baker loved twenty years. He was remembered by David Orr, pastor teaching American History, loved his students, and was of the First United Methodist Church, as a man of great a truly dedicated teacher, organized and thorough.
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