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UPCOMING EVENTS

Moonlight & Magnolias / Lee –Jackson Banquet Ball Saturday/ January 20, 2018, 5:00-7:00pm / Ball 7:00-10:30. Navarro College, Cook Center, Hwy 31 West, Corsicana, Texas. Hosted by: J. L. Halbert, SCV Camp #359 Cost $30.00 a person/ 6 people for a RSVP Table for $25.00 a person. Contact Billy Ford: 903-654-0131.

Lee / Jackson Dinner January 26, 2018 6:30 p.m. Potpourri House, 3320 Troup Hwy, Suite 300 Tyler, Texas.

Battle of Poison Springs, Camden, Arkansas “ Civil War Re-Enactment Days “ From: April 21-22-2018 Location: Poison Springs / Camden Arkansas Battle of Poison Springs Location will be Poison Spring State Park, Chidester, Arkansas. Union and Confederate soldiers will re-enact the Battle of Poison Spring. Contact: Phone: 870-818-3565 Ouachita County Historical Society Website

Battle of Honey Springs Preparations for Battle 17th July 1863 Honey Springs was a stage stop on the Texas Road before the Civil War. The main attraction was Also Known as several springs that provided water for men and The Battle of Elk Creek horses. There was also a commissary, log hospital, and numerous tents for troops. In 1863, the The Battle of Honey Springs (also known as Confederates sent about 6,000 soldiers to the spot. The Battle of Elk Creek) on 17th July 1863, was an Provisions were supplied from Fort Smith, Boggy American Civil War Engagement. An important Depot, Fort Cobb, Fort Arbuckle, and Fort Victory for Union forces in their efforts to gain Washita. However, the Confederates failed to stop a control of the Indian Territory. It was the largest 200- wagon Federal supply train in an engagement confrontation between Union and Confederate forces known as the Battle of Cabin Creek. The supply in the area that would eventually become Oklahoma. train reached Fort Gibson about the same time as The engagement was also unique in the fact that General Blunt himself arrived, accompanied by white soldiers were the minority in both fighting more troops and artillery. Federal forces at the fort forces. African and Native Americans made up totaled only about 3,000 men. significant portions of each of the opposing armies. According to his after-action report to General th The Battleground is about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) Schofield, Blunt arrived in the area on 11 July. He northeast of what is now Checotah, Oklahoma and found the Arkansas River was high and ordered his 15 miles (24 km) south of Muskogee. It was also troops to begin building boats to ferry them across about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Fort Gibson. the river. During this time, he apparently contracted encephalitis, because he had to spend 14th July in Background bed fighting a high fever. Believing they were numerically superior, the At the start of the American Civil War, for Confederates plotted a counteroffensive against cultural and economic reasons, all of the Five Union forces at Fort Gibson, to be launched by Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory opted to side Cooper’s Indians and some attached Texan Troops, with the Confederate States of America, raising and 3,000 soldiers of Brigadier General William Cabell's Brigade, camped in Fort Smith, Arkansas, native troops under the leadership of General th Douglas H. Cooper, and driving out pro-Union which were expected to reach Honey Springs by 17 Creek Indian forces after a short campaign July. Cooper moved his army forward to Honey culminating in the Battle of Chustenahlah. By 1863, Springs, Indian Territory, an important Confederate Confederate fortunes in the region had sunk low, supply depot, to rest and equip, while awaiting however. A Union campaign launched from Kansas Cabell’s Brigade, marching to link up with Cooper. led by Major General James G. Blunt having driven Union forces under General Blunt got wind of the Confederacy from the north of the region, many Cooper’s plan however, and opted to attack him of the Cherokee switched sides to support first, before Cabell arrived, which would have given the Union. Union forces led by Colonel William A. the Confederates overwhelming numerical Phillips reoccupied Fort Gibson in Indian Territory superiority. Blunt’s Command included three federal during April, The move threatened the Confederate Indian Home Guard Regiments recruited from all the Five Nations and the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry, forces at Fort Smith in 1863. However, Phillips’ th supply line stretched from Fort Gibson to Fort Scott, with two white Cavalry Battalions (6 Kansas and Kansas, 175 miles (282 km) to the north. 3rd Wisconsin), one white infantry battalion Confederate Cavalry, operating from Cooper’s consisting of six companies of the 2nd Colorado encampment at Honey Springs, frequently harassed Infantry Regiment, and two Kansas Artillery Fort Gibson and attacked its supply trains. Batteries making the remainder.

Battle of Honey Springs 17th July 1863

Also Known as The Battle of Elk Creek

Opposing Forces

Confederate Force : Union Forces :

1st Brigade, Indian Troops – District of the Frontier – Brigadier General Douglas H. Cooper Major General James G. Blunt

Texas Brigade - Colonel Thomas Coker Bass 1st Brigade - Colonel William R. Judson

 20th Texas Cavalry (Dismounted) ---  2nd Indian Home Guard --- Colonel Thomas Coker Bass Lieutenant Colonel Fred W. Schaurte  29th Texas Cavalry Regiment  1st Kansas Colored Infantry--- Colonel Charles De-Morse (W) Colonel James M. Williams (w),  5th Texas Partisan Rangers--- Lieutenant Colonel John Bowles Colonel Leonidas M. Martin  6 Companies, 3rd Wisconsin Cavalry --- Captain Edward R. Stevens Indian Brigade – Brigadier General Douglas H. Cooper 2nd Brigade - Colonel William A. Phillips

 1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles ---  6 Companies, 2nd Colorado Infantry --- Major Joseph F. Thompson Colonel Theodore H. Dodd  2nd Cherokee Mounted Rifles ---  1st Indian Home Guard --- Lieutenant Colonel James M. Bell Colonel Stephen H. Wattles  Cherokee Regiment---Colonel Stand Watie  Detachments of 6th Kansas Cavalry* --- (not present at battle) Colonel William F. Campbell  1st Choctaw---Chickasaw Mounted Rifles - Colonel Tandy Walker Artillery  1st Creek --- Colonel Daniel N. McIntosh  2nd Creek--- Colonel Chilly McIntosh  2nd Kansas Light Artillery  1st Section --- Artillery & Cavalry Captain Edward Smith  2nd Section ---  Lee’s Battery--- Lieutenant John P. Grassberger Captain Roswell W. Lee  3rd Kansas Light Artillery ---  Scanland’s Squadron Texas Cavalry --- Captain Henry Hopkins Captain John Scanland  Gillett’s Squadron Texas Cavalry --- Captain L. E. Gillett

The Union Advance

"I never saw such fighting as was done by the Blunt’s Troops crossed the Arkansas River in th Negro Regiment....The question that negroes will the late afternoon of 16 July. They began marching fight is settled; besides they make better solders in toward Honey Springs at 11 P. M., and continued every respect than any troops I have ever had through the night. They encountered a Confederate under my command.” picket near Chimney Rock, a local landmark. After routing the picket, they met a Confederate scouting During this period the 2nd Indian Home party north of Elk Creek. They came upon the Guards, fighting for the Union, accidentally strayed Confederate Camp on Elk Creek early in the into no man’s land between the Confederate and morning on 17th July. Confederate pickets saw the Union lines. The Federal Commanders gave the enemy guns in the early light and rushed to inform order for the Home Guards to fall back, the Cooper. After eating breakfast and resting from the Confederates assumed it was an order to retreat and march, Blunt formed his men into two brigades. One attacked. The Confederates charged into an Brigade, led by William A. Phillips and composed established defensive line held by the 1st Kansas th st of a Battalion of the 6 Kansas Cavalry, the 1 and Colored Volunteer Infantry, which repulsed the rd 3 Regiments of Indian Home Guards, a Battalion charge. nd of the 2 Colorado Infantry, and Capt. Henry Gen. Cooper pulled his men back towards the Hopkins’s (four-gun) Battery of Kansas Artillery, depot to obtain new ammunition, but the Federals plus two guns of Captain Edward A. Smith’s Battery continued to press his army closely. Heavy fighting attached to the Cavalry. The other Brigade occurred when Cooper’s men made a stand at a Commanded by Col. William R. Judson, consisted bridge over Elk Creek, roughly1/4 of a mile south of rd nd of the 3 Wisconsin Cavalry, the 2 Regiment of the original position. Union forces continued driving st Indian Home Guards, and the 1 Kansas Colored them back further and gradually beginning to turn Infantry with an estimated 700 soldiers, and the Cooper’s left, causing a general Confederate retreat. remainder of Smith’s Battery of Kansas Artillery. Cooper attempted to fight a rearguard action, making a last stand another 1/2 mile south near The Battle Honey Springs Depot. Despite a notable half-hour stand by the Choctaw and Chickasaw Regiment, Blunt’s attack began on 17th July 1863, with most of the badly organized, disheartened, and in desultory morning skirmishing that revealed many many cases due to their poor powder, unarmed of the Confederate soldiers had wet gunpowder, Indians and Texans simply continued to flee. causing numerous misfires and accidents. Each side Victorious Union forces took possession of the lost one artillery piece during the exchange of Honey Springs Depot, burning what couldn't be gunfire. The main Union attack began at mid- immediately used, and occupying the field. Blunt afternoon, and the beginning of a rain squall trump eted the battle as a Major victory, claiming ; intensified the Confederate’s ammunition problems. Opposing artillerymen each eliminated one gun on Union losses of only the opposing side during an early artillery duel. Then 76 (17 dead and 60 wounded), Blunt saw an opportunity, and ordered the 1st with enemy casualties in e xcess of 500, although, Kansas Colored Infantry to attack. Colonel James M. Williams led the Colored Volunteer Infantry Cooper reported only 181 Confederate casualties forward, but the Confederates held their ground. (134 killed or wounded and 47 taken prisoner). Williams was wounded, but his troops conducted Cooper claimed that his enemy’s forces a disciplined withdrawal and sporadic firing losses were over 200. continued. Afterwards, Blunt wrote: …………….

Reasons for Union Victory

leaving it for the Union Forces to recover. Despite The Union Army, including its Black and the efforts of notable Confederate officers like Stand Native American Forces, had a definite edge in both Watie, Confederate forces in the region would never quantity and quality of weaponry. The Union regain the initiative or engage the Union army in an artillery had ten 1857 12-pounder Napoleon open, head-on battle again, instead relying almost Howitzers, two 6-pound Howitzers, and plenty of entirely on guerrilla warfare and small-scale cavalry Springfield Rifles. Of course, the Union troops also actions to fight the Federal Army. The loss of the had an abundance of shot, shells and canisters. supplies at Honey Springs Depot would likewise The Confederate Troops were poorly armed, prove disastrous. Confederate Forces, already typically with obsolete smoothbore muskets and operating on a shoe-string budget and with bad flintlock shotguns. Ammunition for these was equipment, would come to increasingly rely on primarily made with cheap Mexican gunpowder that was very susceptible to damage by rainy weather. captured Union war material to keep up the fight. The terrible equipment of the Confederates and the rain squall which ruined their powder, played a Battlefield Today large part in the Confederate defeat, although some eyewitness sources, notably future Creek Indian The Battlefield is located east of U.S. Highway Chief George Washington Grayson, claimed 69 in McIntosh County, Oklahoma, between Cooper’s poor generalship was responsible for the Rentiesville, and Oktaha. It is managed by the defeat, arguing that about half the Confederate Army Oklahoma Historical Society. According to the 1997 was n ever even engaged. Master Plan Report, the original Battlefield covered 2,997 acres (1,213 ha), of which the Oklahoma Aftermath Historical Society owned 957 acres (387 ha) in 1997. The northern third is in Muskogee County and After the Battle, the defeated Confederates the southern two-thirds is in McIntosh County. st withdrew, leaving their dead comrades behind, and On the 21 August, 2011 the U.S. Department met up with Cabell’s 3,000 man relief force about 50 of Agriculture Rural Development announced a $1.9 miles away. General Blunt did not pursue them million public private partnership that includes the because his own troops and horses were very tired. Oklahoma Historical Society, McIntosh County and He ordered them to camp overnight at the battlefield, an area nonprofit organization to build a 5,000- where they could treat the wounded and bury the square-foot (460 m2) Visitor’s Center to replace the dead of both sides. Blunt himself was still suffering existing facility consisting of a small trailer. A a high fever from his bout of encephalitis. He finally November 2011 story in the Tulsa World Newspaper had to spend the rest of the day in bed. Late the next cites the U.S. Department of the Interior report as day Blunt ordered the troops to return to Fort giving consideration of designating the Honey Gibson. Later, Cooper wrote a letter to Blunt, Springs Battlefield as a U.S. National Battlefield thanking him for burying the Confederate dead. Park. In 2013 the Battlefield was named a National After the war, the Union corpses were exhumed Historic Landmark by the National Park Service. and reburied in Fort Gibson National Cemetery. The Battle was the largest ever fought in the Indian Territory, and would indeed prove to be decisive. The Oklahoma Historical Society even compared its importance to the Battle of Gettysburg. The victory opened the way for Blunt’s forces to capture Fort Smith and the Arkansas River Valley all the way to the Mississippi River. The Con- federates abandoned Fort Smith in August 1863,

BRIGADIER GENERAL Douglas Hancock Cooper (Library of Co ngress)

Douglas Hancock Cooper was born 1st Nov- ember 1815 in Amite County, Mississippi. His father was both a Physician and a Baptist Minister, and Cooper was encouraged to pursue a higher education. He attended the University of Virginia BRIGADIER GENERAL Douglas Hancock Cooper from 1832 to 1834, along with other future st th Confederate Generals, Lafayette, McLaws and John 1 NOVEMBER 1815- 29 APRIL 1979

B. Magruder. Cooper did not find studying to his Choctaw and Chickasaw Mounted Rifles, which liking, however, and he returned to Mississippi to took part in the pursuit of the Creek Indian Tribe, take up farming. which had Union loyalties, to Kansas. By 1844 Cooper was married and the father of In 1862, Cooper and his Confederate Troops seven children. He was also involved in politics, participated in the Battles of Pea Ridge (Elkhorn serving in the Mississippi State Legislature. In 1846, Tavern) in Arkansas, Newtonia in Missouri, and with the start of the Mexican-American War, Cooper Honey Springs in Oklahoma. Despite being defeated raised a Regiment of Volunteers, the 1st Mississippi at Pea Ridge and Honey Springs, Cooper was Rifles, and served as their Captain. During the war promoted to Brigadier General in May of 1863 and he was cited for bravery and gallantry. given the District Command of Indian Territory. In 1853, Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, who Cooper continued his excellent relations with the had served with Cooper in the war, used his tribes, even getting letters of support from their influence with President Franklin Pierce to have leaders sent to President Jefferson Davis in Cooper appointed as the Federal Agent to the Richmond. In one of his last engagements, Cooper Choctaw Tribe. Cooper worked well with the Native Commanded the Indian Brigade during the second Americans and was able to have them relocated to Confederate Invasion of Missouri in 1864. Indian Territory without any conflict. His relations When the war ended in 1865, Cooper continued with local tribes were so amicable, that in 1856 he to work with the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes, was also appointed the Agent to the Chickasaw supporting their land claims against the federal Tribe, who officially adopted him as a member. government. On 29th April 1879, Cooper died at Fort When the Civil War began in 1861, Confederate Washita, in what is now Oklahoma. He was buried Secretary of War Leroy Pope Walker authorized at the fort in an unmarked grave, with no record of Cooper to protect the local tribes from "Northern his military career or of his advocacy efforts for Aggression ." Cooper raised and Commanded the 1st Native Americans.

MAJOR GENERAL James Gilpatrick Blunt

James Gilpatrick Blunt was born 21st July 1826 in Trenton, Maine to John Blunt and Sally Gilpatrick Blunt, he lived and worked on his family farm until he was 14. He may have spent some time at the Ellsworth Military Academy in Ellsworth, Maine. He became a sailor on a merchant vessel when he was 15, and attained the rank of Captain at 20. In 1845 Blunt moved to Columbus, Ohio, where he enrolled in Starling Medical College. His MAJOR GENERAL maternal uncle, Dr. Rufus Gilpatrick, was one of the James Gilpatrick Blunt instructors. Graduating in February 1849, Blunt 21st July 1826 – 27th July 1881 moved to New Madison, Ohio and started a practice. On 15th January 1850 he married Nancy G. In April 1862, Blunt was appointed Brigadier Putman. Blunt practiced medicine and took an active General of volunteers and given Command of the role in county politics as a member of the Department and Army of Kansas. He ordered Republican Party. Colonel William Weer to lead the “Indian In 1856 Blunt and his family relocated to Expedition” in 1861 which succeeded in occupying Anderson County, Kansas, following his uncle who Fort Gibson and arming three Regiments of Native had moved there several years earlier. He soon Americans. Blunt’s forces were defeated in the First became involved in the conflict before the Civil War Battle of Newtonia, and the Army of Kansas was known as Bleeding Kansas, when abolitionist and incorporated into the Army of the Frontier as the 1st slavery forces battled to control the territory. During Division. Blunt led his Division of Cherokee and a confrontation with the pro-slavery territorial Kansas Volunteers to Victory at the Battle of Old government in 1857, Blunt joined a force including Fort Wayne. In December 1862, Blunt’s Division Jim Lane and abolitionist John Brown. Blunt was was joined by the 2nd Division under Francis J. a key member of the Wyandotte Constitutional Herron. The combined forces met Confederates Convention that framed the Kansas State under Thomas C. Hindman at the Battle of Prairie Constitution in 1859, and served as Chair of the Grove. While tactically a draw, the Battle was a Committee on Militia. Strategic Victory for the Union. At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, Blunt Blunt was appointed Major General of was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the 3rd Volunteers on 16th March 1863. He was the only Regiment Kansas Volunteer Infantry, a part of officer from Kansas to achieve that rank during the James Lane's Kansas Brigade, an irregular partisan war. He established Fort Baxter (also known as Fort force not accepted into the Union Army until Blair) in May 1863 near Baxter Springs, Kansas. reorganized in April 1862.

Blunt was appointed to Command the District of the Frontier. He campaigned for control of the Indian Territory and won a Victory at the Battle of Honey Springs, bringing much of the Indian Territory into Union control. In October 1863, while moving his headquarters from Fort Scott to Fort Smith, Blunt and his detachment were attacked by a Confederate Force under William C. Quantrill. At the Battle of Baxter Springs. Quantrill’s Raiders routed and killed over 80 of Blunt’s 100 escorts, including his Adjutant Major Henry Curtis, son of Major General Samuel Curtis. These actions led to Blunt’s removal from Command of the District of 1st Kansas Colored Infantry the Frontier. In 1864, Blunt was able to redeem himself. Movement Further into the Cherokee Nation Confederate Maj. Gen. Sterling Price began an Invasion of Missouri and Blunt took Command of On 27th June 1863, the Regiment was ordered to the 1st Division of Army of the Border. He and the accompany a supply train to Fort Gibson. The First Cavalry under Alfred Pleasanton fought delaying Kansas left Fort Scott along with the Second actions until Samuel R. Curtis brought the full Colorado Volunteers, three companies of Cavalry strength of the army together and inflicted a defeat from the Sixth and Ninth Kansas, and part of the on Price at the Battle of Westport. Blunt’s Division Second Kansas Battery (all white units). The next inflicted the final defeat to Price at the Second Battle day, the force was joined by about three hundred of Newtonia. Blunt Commanded the District of men of the Indian Brigade. Commander of the South Kansas when the war ended. maneuver was Lt. Colonel Dodd of the Second After the war, Blunt settled with his family in Colorado. Williams claimed to have intelligence Leavenworth, Kansas and resumed his medical indicating that the Confederates Forces would attack practice; he also was admitted to the Kansas Bar as a the train somewhere in the vicinity of Cabin Creek, lawyer. He moved to Washington, D.C. in 1869 about 65 miles northwest of Ft. Gibson. This where he practiced his new profession. information proved correct as on 1st July, a force of Blunt’s behavior became erratic in 1879 when 2,200 rebels were found blocking the road at Cabin he was 53, and he was committed to an asylum. He Creek. At days end, the enemy was routed, the road died two years later, with the cause of death given as was cleared, and the Regiment continued on to Fort “softe ning of the brain.” Gibson.

His body was returned to Leavenworth and is The Stint at Fort Gibson: Buried in the Mount Muncie Cemetery. After the Regiment arrived at Fort Gibson on

the 5th of July, little time was afforded for relaxation. Under the Command of General Blunt, Fort Gibson's entire strength moved south against a Confederate force numbering over 6,000. The rebels were positioned about twenty miles to the southwest of the fort at a place called Honey Springs. The battle was short and fierce, resulting in a Union

Victory. The Regiment, as usual showed itself worthy on the field of battle.

This Battle is famous for the After the Confederate Forces fled the Battlefield, "Massacre" of the Wounded and Captured the Regiment moved back to Ft. Gibson, serving Black Soldiers by the Confederate Victors garrison duty until September of 1863. Williams and his men were involved in a pursuit of the enemy into the Choctaw Nation. The enemy proved elusive and the Regiment retired to the site of an abandoned Confederate Encampment, Fort Davis on the Canadian River. A month was spent at this location, mostly in idleness. In October, orders were received to march to Fort Smith, where the Regiment stayed until 1st December 1863. After moving from place to place south of Ft. Smith, the Regiment went into winter quarters at Roseville, Arkansas.

The Camden Expedition: Arkansas

The Honey Springs Battle Pay-Back Without the provisions lost at Poison Springs, st On, 1 March 1864, the First Kansas left Steele was forced to withdraw from Camden, Roseville, to join General Steele's Forces which falling back to Little Rock. Early in May, Colonel were moving against the enemy to the north. By the Williams was promoted Commander of the Second middle of April, the Union Army occupied the Brigade, Frontier Division. The First Kansas, after a entrenchments at Camden, which were recently short stay in Little Rock, was ordered back to Fort th abandoned by Confederate Forces. On, 17 of April Smith. According to Williams, Williams led a combined force from several units on a foraging sweep through the surrounding "This Campaign was one of great fatigue and countryside. In his Command were approximately privation and accompanied only with severe loss of 800 Infantry, 300 Cavalry, 200 wagons, and a life and material, with no adequate recompense or section of Artillery. After reaching a point twenty advant age gained." five miles out and having two thirds of the wagons filled with confiscated provisions, Williams heading During this Campaign, the Regiment was the force back toward Camden. About 12 miles involved in one brief but costly skirmish. On 16th of from Camden, the foragers encountered an enemy September 1864, forty two men of Company K were presence near a heavily wooded cross roads called guarding a haymaking work party near Fort Gibson, Poison Springs. (The Battle of Poison Springs). C.N. The party was attacked by a much superior force under the Command of General Gano. The Williams found himself to be outgunned and company was almost wiped out with a loss on that outnumbered about eight to one. His Command fell day, of 24 killed and 10 taken as prisoners. The back to a position around the wagons determined to captured included the commander of the detachment, hold on to the provisions needed so badly by Steele's Lieutenant D. M. Sutherland. This was recorded as forces at Camden. From 10:00 in the morning until the "Battle of Flat Rock." 2:00 in the afternoon, the Union Forces repulsed In the middle of January, 1865, the Regiment enemy attacks. By the afternoon, ammunition was moved back to Little Rock where it remained on running low and some units were out entirely. duty until July when it was moved to Pine Bluff, Fearing the loss of his entire Command, Williams Arkansas. The time there was spent in garrison and decided to abandon the wagons and take to the escort duty. On 1st October1865, the First Kansas "swamps" to the rear of their position. The losses Colored Volunteers (then known as the 79th U. S. incurred by the First Kansas numbered 187 Colored Troops) was mustered out of federal duty. casualties. Of this number, 117 were killed. The Regiment marched to Fort Leavenworth where on 30th October and was disbanded.

Battle of Confederat e Victory Poison Springs The Battle of Poison Spring unfolded much 18th April 1864 better than either Marmaduke or Maxey could have Camden, Arkansas hoped. The "L" shaped position taken by the Posted by Dale Cox Confederate Forces gave them an immediate tactical advantage. Colonel Williams formed his men into a line of The Battle of Poison Spring was fought during th battle facing Maxey's men, who were all but the American Civil War on 18 April 1864, in invisible in the woods and underbrush south of the Ouachita County, Arkansas as part of the Camden road. In doing so, he allowed himself to be drawn Expedition. The Battle is infamous for the into a trap exactly as Marmaduke had hoped. The Confederates’ slaughter and mutilation of Black Union Colonel's Report, in fact, describes an U.S. Soldiers of the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry. extremely confusion situation for the Federal Soldiers even with the benefit of post-battle Opposing Forces hindsight. It appeared to them that Confederates were coming from all directions and, in truth, they Confederate Order of Battle and Union Order of were. Battle dwindling supplies for his army at Camden, As Williams was moving men back and forth Arkansas forced Union Army Maj. Gen. Frederick and trying to make some sense of the situation, the Steele to send out a foraging party to gather corn Confederates suddenly opened on his lines with that the Confederates Forces had stored about twenty artillery. The Union Commander reported that miles up the Prairie D’Ane- Camden Road on White batteries fired on him from the front (Maxey's Oak Creek. The party loaded the corn into wagons, position) and his right flank (Marmaduke's position). th and on 18 April, Col. James M. Williams started Simultaneous with the opening of artillery fire, the his return to Camden. Brig. Gen. John S. Confederates under Maxey advanced their line. Marmaduke’s and Brig. Gen. Samuel B. Maxey’s Heavy fighting followed as the Union Forces, Confederate Forces arrived at Lee Plantation, about anchored by the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteers, fifteen miles from Camden, where they engaged tried to hold off the motivated Confederate attackers. Williams. It did not take long for the 3 to 1 numerical superiority of the Southern forces to show. Battle Although the Union line was able to beat back attacks, Colonel Williams reported that this was achieved at great cost. He later reported that in short The Confederates eventually attacked Williams f his command had been either killed or in the front and rear, forcing him to retreat north into order half o wounded. a marsh where his men regrouped and then fell back The attack by Maxey was designed to focus the to Camden. During the fight, Williams positioned the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry, a Regiment made attention of the Union Troops and in this it achieved its goal spectacularly. When Marmaduke ordered up of mostly ex-slaves, between the wagon train and forward his brigades against the Union right flank, Confederate Lines; these black troops repelled the first two offenses, but ran low on ammunition and the battle quickly turned into a debacle for the Union Forces. Initially fighting hard as they went, were beaten back by the third. The Confederates the Union Troops began to retreat in the face of the refused to take the wounded black soldiers as prisoners, and instead brutally killed, scalped, and Confederate attack on their flank. Realizing the critical moment was at hand, Maxey once again stripped them. In all, the Regiment lost nearly half of advance d his men as well. its numbers. The Union lost 198 wagons and all the corn. Estimated casualties were 301 for

Williams and 114 for the Confederates.

Although Colonel Williams' tried to withdraw Since the names of men with minor wounds his men from the battlefield in order, the crushing were often not included on Regimental Reports, attack prevented this effort. The retreat turned into a especially for African American Regiments of that route and by the time it was over, the Confederates day, there is no reason to suspect that Major Ward's had pursued the scattered Union Command for over numbers are inaccurate. It is safe to conclude, then, two miles. that the total loss of the 1st Kansas Colored Union losses at Poison Spring were shocking. Volunteers at the Battle of Poison Spring was An estimated 204 Federal Soldiers were reported probably around 117 killed, 65 wounded and 2 killed or missing following the battle, while another captured. This represents a total loss for the 97 were listed as wounded. The exact number regiment of 185. killed is somewhat difficult to determine. Williams Records of other Union units present at Poison claimed that a number of wounded soldiers from the Spring provide the names of another 7 killed, 26 1st Kansas Colored Volunteers were murdered on wounded (of whom 17 were captured and 1 listed the spot by Confederate forces. There is some as missing in action) and 56 captured or missing confirmation of this in the writings of Southern in action. participants, one of whom noted that killings were This places verifiable Union casualties in the carried out by members of 1st and 2nd Choctaw battle at 124 killed, 91 wounded and 58 captured or Regiments. The men of these units had a particular missing in action. Seventeen of the wounded were grudge against the soldiers of the 1st Kansas because also reported as captured and 18 was listed as of the harsh treatment dealt on homes and families in missing in action, but they are listed here only with the Choctaw Nation by that Regiment prior to the the wounded. This would place the total verifiable Red River Campaign. One eyewitness reported that Union loss in the battle at 273. the outraged warriors retaliated at Poison Spring and Obviously, this is a severe loss for a small "did kill and scalp some." battle, but it is somewhat below the 301 listed by the General Marmaduke's report, listed 100 National Park Service. And the total killed of 124 is wounded and 120 non-wounded Union soldiers as far fewer than the 236 or more listed (without having been taken prisoner at Poison Spring, while names) by some sources. he estimated the number of dead on the ground at an Part of the confusion seems to originate from the impossibly high 400-600. He also reported the fact that 17 of the wounded were also taken prisoner. capture of 195 wagons, 4 pieces of artillery and They appear to often be listed among both totals, 1,200 mules while listing his own losses at 13 killed, which leads to inaccuracies. Other errors result from 81 wounde d and 1 missing. the fact that a number of men initially listed as "Missing in Action" eventually returned to their Union Casualties regiments. All eight of the missing in action from the 18th Iowa Infantry, for example, eventually A review of the surviving records of the 1st turned back up. Kansas Colored Volunteers (later the 79th U.S. The intial Confederate reports of the battle, Colored Troops), reveals the names of 107 men while they far overstated Union dead at 400 to 600 killed in action, 12 wounded (one of whom was (impossible figures since these totals would captured) and two prisoners of war, or a total loss of represent more men lost than reported by all of the 121 men. Union units present at the battle during the entire The number killed in action who can be war), were more accurate in their statements that indentified today is remarkably close to the number roughly 100 Union soldiers had been wounded and reported just two days after the battle by Major around 120 captured. This initial estimate included Richard G. Ward of the 1st Kansas. He reported a some prisoners who were released on the day of the loss of 5 officers and 112 enlisted men killed, or a battle as well as some wounded prisoners who later total of 117. He also reported 2 officers and 63 men died. woun ded.

Battle of Poison Springs 18th April 1864 Camden, Arkansas

Opposing Forces

Confederate Task Force :

Brigadier General Samuel Bell Maxey nd 2 Indian Brigade-- Arkansas Brigade – Colonel Tand y Walker Brig. Gen. William Lewis Cabell  1st Choctaw Regiment---  1st Arkansas Cavalry Regiment Lt. Colonel James Riley Colonel. James Cade Monroe  2nd Choctaw Regiment---  2nd Arkansas Cavalry Morgan’s Regiment Colonel Simpson N. Folsom Colonel Thomas J. Morgan th  4 Arkansas Cavalry Regiment Crawford's Brigade Colonel Anderson Gordon  7th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment Colonel John Fry Hill Col. William A. Crawford

 McMurtrey's Arkansas Cavalry Battalion Major Elisha Lawley McMurtrey  2nd Arkansas Cavalry Regiment  Trader’s Regiment of Arkansas Captain Obediah B. Tebbs State Troops  Crawford's Arkansas Cavalry Regiment Colonel William H. Trader Colonel William A. Crawford  Gunter’s Arkansas Cavalry Battalion  Wright's Arkansas Cavalry Regiment Lt. Colonel Thomas Montague Gunter Colonel John Crowell Wright  Hughey's 8th Arkansas Field Battery  Poe's Arkansas Cavalry Regiment Captain William M. Hughey Major James Thomas Poe

Texas Brigade – Marmaduke's Cavalry Division General Richard Montgomery Gano Colonel Charles De-Morse Brigadier John S . Marmaduke

 29th Texas Cavalry Regiment Col Colton Greene Brigade Major Joseph Alexander Carroll  30th Texas Cavalry Regiment  3rd Missouri Cavalry Regiment Lt. Colonel Nicholas William Battle Lt. Colonel Leonidas Adolphus Campbell  31st Texas Cavalry Regiment  4th Missouri Cavalry Regiment Major Michael Looscan Lt. Colonel W. J. Preston  Welch’s Texas Cavalry Company  8th Missouri Cavalry ( Detachment )--- Lt. Franklin Marius Gano Captain J. H. Cobb  Krumbhaar's Texas Battery  Harris' 4th Missouri Battery Captain William B. Krumbhaar Captain S.S. Harris

Battle of Battle of Poison Springs Poison Springs th 18th April 1864 18 April 1864 Camden, Arkansas Camden, Arkansas

Opposing Forces

Union Task Force :

Commander Colonel James M. Williams

 1st Kansas Colored Infantry Regiment Major R. G. Ward  18th Iowa Infantry Regiment Captain W. M. Duncan  2nd Kansas Cavalry Regiment Mitchell’s Detachment: Lt. B.B. Mitchell  2nd Kansas Cavalry Regiment Ross’s Detachment: Lt. E. Ross  6th Kansas Cavalry Regiment Gen. Steele’s Route – 1864 Phillips Detachment : Lt. R.L. Phillip  6th Kansas Cavalry Regiment Henderson’s Detachment : Lt. R. Henderson  6th Kansas Cavalry Regiment Walker’s Detachment : Lt. A. J. Walker  14th Kansas Cavalry Regiment Utt’s Detachment : Lt. J. Utt  14th Kansas Cavalry Regiment Smith’s Detachment : Lt. W.C. Smith

Section : 2nd Battery

 Indian Light Artillery Battlefield Map of Poison Springs Lt. W. W. Haines

Maj. General Samuel Bell Maxey In 1842 young Maxey got an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Although he consistently ranked near the bottom of his class, Maxey did graduate in 1846 and was commissioned as Second Lieutenant. He was assigned to the Seventh Infantry Regiment which was engaged in the Mexican- American War, and joined them in Monterrey, Mexico. Maxey was cited for his actions in the battles of Cerro Gordo and Contreras in the summer of 1847. He also participated in the battlers of Churubusco and Molino del Rey. He received a brevet promotion and was placed in command of a police company in Mexico City. In June 1848 Maxey was transferred to Jefferson Barracks in Missouri, and the following year he resigned from the army. He returned to Albany, read law with his father Rice Maxey and they began a joint practice when Samuel was admitted to the Bar in 1851. He married Marilda Cass Denton on June 19, 1853. Then in October 1857 father and son moved their families to a small farm they purchased just south of Paris, Texas. They resumed a joint law practice here as well.

Samuel Bell Maxey Civil War

(March 30, 1825 – August 16,1895) was an Samuel was elected the district attorney for American soldier, lawyer, and politician Lamar County in 1858 and was a delegate to from Paris, Texas, United States. He was a the state’s Secession Convention in 1861. That Major General for the Confederacy in the Civil same year he was elected to the state Senate, War and later represented Texas in the U.S. but never served, preferring military duty. His Senate. father, Rice Maxey, was elected to replace him. Samuel had been given authority by the Early Life Confederate government in September to raise a regiment as its Colonel. Samuel was born in Tompkinsville, In December, Colonel Maxey led his 1,120 Kentucky, to Rice and Lucy (Bell) Maxey. His man Ninth Texas Regiment from Bonham to father was a lawyer, and in 1834 he moved the join General Johnston at Memphis, Tennessee. family to Albany, Kentucky to take a position However he was soon separated from his as the County Clerk for Clinton County. regiment and set to building bridges near Chattanooga.

In March 1862 Maxey was promoted to pardoned him on July 20, 1867 after a personal Brigadier General. The regiment was badly appeal from Maxey’s former West Point mauled at the Battle of Shiloh, but he was not classmate Ulysses S. Grant. He resumed the present. In fact he saw very little action during practice of law in Paris. this period. He did see action at the Siege of Port Hudson in 1863. In December 1863, General Maxey was assigned as commander of the Indian Territory. His early success in conducting raids and capturing supplies prevented a Union Army invasion of Texas and earned him a promotion to Major General. In 1865 he was ordered to Houston, Texas, to take command of a Division. He turned over command of the Indian Territory to the Indian General Stand Watie on February 21, 1865 and proceeded to Houston. Maxey’s new command was plagued by desertions and his inability to get supplies and equipment. Frustrated and discouraged, he was allowed to resign on May 22, 1865. He returned home to Paris, and formally surrendered in July to General E.R.S. Canby. Although nominally a prisoner of war, he remained at home on parole.

In 1872 he ran for the U.S. Congress, but lost in the Democratic Party Primary to William P. McLean. In 1873, Governor Davis offered Maxey an appointment to the Texas District Court, but he declined due to prior involvement as a lawyer with cases before the court. Later political career In January 1875, the Texas Legislature elected him to the United States Senate where As a senior officer of the Confederacy, he served two terms, from March 4, 1875 until Maxey was not eligible to hold political office March 4, 1887. He improved postal and rail or even practice law. In October 1865 he began service in Texas and argued against increased his appeal for a presidential pardon. He was tariffs. He took little interest in larger national finally successful when President Johnson or party affairs. The legislature named the more dynamic John H. Reagan to replace him.

THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF COL. CHARLES DEMORSES’ 29TH TEXAS CAVALRY CAMP

Maxey returned to the practice of law in Paris, this time with his wife’s nephew Benjamin Denton and Henry William Lightfoot. The latter of the two later married Maxey’s adopted daughter Dora Maxey. When his nephew, Sam Bell Maxey Long, joined the firm in 1892 he finally retired.

He died in 1895 at Eureka Springs, Arkansas, where he had gone for treatment of an intestinal problem.

Samuel, Marilda & Dora Maxey

Samuel and Marilda are Buried in the Evergreen Cemetery in Paris.

The Sam Bell Maxey House

The townhouse that he built there in 1867 is now a State Historical Site on South Church Maxey Monument Street in Paris, Texas and is open to visitors.

Ordnance Departments for the Confederate Military. He was sent to Manassas, Virginia to take the position of Quartermaster for the Confederate Army of the Potomac under General Pierre G.T. Beauregard. He served on Beauregard's staff and then on the staff of General Joseph E. Johnston until reassigned in January of 1862. After leaving Virginia, Cabell was assigned by General Albert Sidney Johnston to serve under General Earl Van Dorn who was Commander of the Trans-Mississippi Department. Cabell was promoted to Brigadier General and placed in Command of all Confederate Troops on the White River with his headquarters at Jacksonport, Arkansas. Soon after the Battle of Pea Ridge Confederate Forces were withdrawn from Arkansas and moved across the Mississippi River. Upon his arrival at Corinth, Mississippi, Cabell was given Command of a Texas Brigade with an Arkansas Regiment attached. Cabell led this brigade in several engagements around Corinth. Cabell was transferred to an Arkansas Brigade, Brigadier General William Lewis Cabell which he led in the Battle of Iuka, Battle of (1827-1911) Saltillo, and the Battle of Corinth. He was wounded leading a charge against the Union Arkansas Brigade Commander entrenchments at Corinth and again at the Battle of the Hatchie River Bridge, which left him William Lewis Cabell (1st January 1827 – st temporarily disabled and unfit for field command. 21 February 1911) was a Brigadier General in the In February of 1863, he was placed in Confederate States Army during the American Civil Command of Northwestern Arkansas and War and later served as Mayor of Dallas, Texas. successfully recruited and outfitted one of the William L. Cabell was born in Danville, largest Cavalry Brigades west of the Mississippi. Virginia. Six of Cabell's brothers also held Cabell led this Brigade in over 20 Engagements in prominent positions in the Confederate Army. One the Trans-Mississippi Department including other brother died just prior to the Civil War from an prominent roles at the Battle of Poison Spring arrow wound received in Florida. Cabell graduated and the Battle of Marks' Mill where he from the United States Military Academy in 1850 Commanded two brigades under General James and joined the United States Army as a Second Fleming Fagan. Cabell was captured by Union Lieutenant with the 7th Infantry. In June of 1855, he forces in Missouri during Price's Raid on 25th was promoted to First Lieutenant and appointed as October 1864, and was held as a prisoner of war at Regimental Quartermaster on the staff of General the Johnson's Island Prison Camp on Lake Erie and Persifer F. Smith. then at Fort Warren in Boston, Massachusetts. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Cabell After the war, Cabell returned to Fort Smith, returned to Little Rock, Arkansas, and offered his Arkansas, where he worked as a civil engineer and services to Governor Henry Massey Rector. During studied law at night. He was admitted to the April of 1861, he received a telegram from the Arkansas bar in 1868 and practiced law for a few Confederate States Government and went to years. In 1872, Cabell and his family moved to Richmond, Virginia and assisted in the Dallas, Texas. In 1874, he was elected mayor of establishment of the commissary, quartermaster, and that city and served three terms at various. During

His, tenure, he expanded rail access to the city, established sewer and electrical services, started a program of paving streets, and presided over a period of massive growth. After leaving office, Cabell became Vice President of the Texas Trunk Railroad Company. In 1885, he was appointed U.S. Marshal and served in that capacity until 1889. During the Spanish- American War, at age 71, he offered his military services to the U.S. Government. Cabell also remained active in Confederate Veterans Affairs. He oversaw several large Veterans Reunions, assisted in establishing pensions, Veterans Homes, and Confederate Cemeteries in Texas. He served as Commander of the Trans-Mississippi Department of the United Confederate Veterans. Cabell's wife was the daughter of Major Elias Rector of Arkansas and served as a nurse during the Civil War. William Lewis Cabell died in Dallas, Texas on 21st February 1911 and was buried there five days later after a heavily attended military parade.

Brig. General William Lewis Cabell

Birth 1 Jan 1827 Danville, Danville City, Virginia, USA Death 22 Feb 1911 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, USA Burial Greenwood Cemetery Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, USA Plot Block 18, Lot 25, Space 1 GPS Latitude: 32.80129, Longitude: -96.79774 Memorial ID 9781

After the war he studied law and served three terms as Mayor of Dallas, Texas (1874 to 1876, 1877 to 1 879, 1883 to 1885).

Colonel James Cade Monroe Colonel Thomas J. Morgan

st 1 Arkansas Cavalry Regiment 2nd Arkansas Cavalry Regiment

HISTORICAL NOTES:

The 2nd Arkansas Cavalry Regiment was organized during the early spring of 1862 using Phifer's Arkansas Cavalry Battalion as its nucleus. The Regiment went by a variety of unofficial names during its existence. When Colonel Robert Crittenden Newton was in command, it went by its official title of 5th THE RAGGED COLONEL OF Arkansas Cavalry. THE RAWHIDES Colonel Newton was succeeded in December 1863 by Col. Thomas J. Morgan, formerly "Among the many picturesque figures of the Captain of Company C. Under Colonel Morgan's Southern Confederacy, none stands out more Command, the Regiment went by the designation conspicuously than James Cade Monroe, "The 8th Arkansas Cavalry; but it was also known on Ragged Colonel of the Rawhides”, as he was occasion as the 2nd Arkansas Cavalry. known in the Western Division of the Confederate The Compiled Service Records are filed under Army. The Rawhide Regiment was composed of the the designation 8th Arkansas Cavalry. The Volunteers of Arkansas in the Trans-Mississippi Commanders of the 5th/2nd/8th Cavalry include Department of the Confederate Forces, and James Colonels Robert C. Newton, Thomas J. Morgan, Monroe was known as the "Ragged Colonel" and W. A. Bevens. because he refused to fare better than his men; if The Unit designation changed to the 2nd they went hungry, he did not eat; if they were poorly (Morgan's) Cavalry Regiment effective 24th clad, he would wear no bett er clothing than they did. December 1863. As the 2nd Arkansas Cavalry under Colonel Morgan, the unit served in General Cabell's Brigade, Trans-Mississippi Department, Col. James Cade Monroe and fo ught in the following engagements:

18th April 1864 Battle of Poison Spring, Arkansas, Birth 1837 th Marion, Marion County, 25 April 1864 Battle of Marks' Mills, Arkansas, South Carolina, USA The Regiment lost 18 percent of the 130 engaged. Death 1865 San Luis Potosi, Mexico After The Battle of Poison Springs, the Regiment participated in Price's Missouri Ex- Burial Non-Cemetery Burial, th Specifically: Buried in the Hills of Mexico pedition and was captured at Mine Creek on 25 Memorial ID 86128083 October 1864.

Colonel Anderson Gordon Colonel John Fry Hill

4th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment 7th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment

The 4th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment (1862– 1865) was a Confederate Army Cavalry Regiment from the State of Arkansas during the American Civil War. The Regiment was designated at various times as Carroll's Regiment Arkansas Cavalry, Thompson's Regiment Arkansas Cavalry, and Gordon's Regiment Arkansas Cavalry. During the same time it was also known as 1st Arkansas

Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Arkansas Cavalry Regiment, The 7th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment was 9th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment and the 11th formed on 25th July 1863, by adding independent Arkansas Cavalry Regiment. companies to J. F. Hill's Arkansas Cavalry The 4th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment served Battalion. The 7th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment in General Cabell's Brigade, Trans-Mississippi was Commanded by Colonel John Fry Hill, Department, and took an active part in the Camden Lieutenant Colonel Oliver Basham, and Majors J. Expedition and during the Battle of Marks' Mills, L. Adams and J. C. Ward. Many former members twenty-one percent of the 117 engaged were of the 10th Arkansas Militia Regiment joined this disabled. Later it participated in Price's Missouri unit. Expedition and reported 106 casualties. The unit Colonel John Fry Hill Commanded both the participated in the following engagements: 16th Arkansas Infantry Regiment and the 7th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment. Camden Expedition March-May 1864 The Regiment served in General Cabell's Brigade, Trans-Mississippi Department, and fought Elkin’s Ferry, AR 3 Apr 1864 in the following engagements: Near Prairie D’Ane, AR 8 Apr 1864 th Prairie D’Ane, AR 9-12 April 1864 18 April 1864 Battle of Poison Spring, Arkansas, th Poison Springs, AR 18 April 1864 25 April 1864 Battle of Marks' Mills, Arkansas, Camden, AR 20 Apr 1864

Marks' Mill, AR 25 April 1864 (4 k, 15 w)

Major Elisha Lawley McMurtrey Colonel William H. Trader

McMurtrey's Arkansas Cavalry Trader’s Regiment of st Battalion 1 Battalion, Arkansas State Troops

Col. Elisha L. McMurtrey, farmer, Rison, Ark. These new units of Arkansas State Troops were In 1861 he joined Company E, of the State Troops, placed under the overall Command of Col. William and took part in the Oak Hill fight, after which the H. Trader who was detailed to Governor Flanagin Regiment was disbanded, and Col. McMurtrey came by General E. Kirby Smith. Col. Trader remained in home. He then assisted in organizing the 2nd Command of the State Troops until he resigned in Arkansas Cavalry Regiment, being made Captain June 1864. of Company A, which he Commanded until the The 1st Battalion, Arkansas State Troops early part of 1863, when he was promoted to the performed routine patrol duties in the general area rank of Major. About eight months later he was between Washington and Arkadelphia during the promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, which position he winter of 1863-64.The Battalion was Commanded held until the close of the war. The first two years he by Colonel W. H. Trader during this period and operated in Tennessee and Mississippi, and during participated in the Battle of Poison Springs as a part that time participated in the Battles of Shiloh, of Cabell's Cavalry Brigade. Both the troops and Corinth, Bighton's Lane, Denmark, Holly Springs, Colonel Trader were cited for gallant conduct Iuka Springs, Guntown and many other engagements during the battle. A few days later the troops of the of note. West of the river he participated in the Battalion under Lt. Colonel Thomas Gunter and Lt. battles of Camden, Jenkins' Ferry, Mark's Mill, Colonel A. T. Pettus participated in the Battle of Princeton, etc. He was in twenty-two regular Marks' Mill, April 25, 1864, as a part of Brigadier engagements during the war, and surrendered at Pine General William L. Cabell’s Division. Lieutenant Bluff in June, 1865. He was Captain of the militia Colonel Pettus was killed during the battle and under Gov. Hadley's administration, and was Captain P. K. Williamson of Company A Colonel of the same under Gov. Garland. Commanded the battalion until the unit was increased to a regiment and transferred to Col. Elisha Lawley “ E. L. ” McMurtrey Confederate service.

Birth 23rd May 1822 Red River Campaign, Arkansas Shelby, Shelby County, Alabama, USA March–May, 1864. Death 13th Dec 1896 Battle of Poison Springs, Arkansas, Cleveland County, Arkansas, USA April 18, 1864. Burial Mead Cemetery Battle of Marks' Mills, Arkansas, Rison, Cleveland County, Arkansas, USA April 25, 1864. Memorial ID 48691254

Lieutenant Colonel Captain William M. Hughey Thomas Montague Gunter Hughey's 8th Arkansas Field Battery

Hughey's Battery, attached to Colonel Gunter’s Arkansas Cavalry Battalion William A. Crawford's Brigade, of Major General James Fleming Fagan's Division was engaged in th Thomas Montague Gunter (18 September the Camden Expedition in the spring of 1864, th 1826 – 12 January1904) was a U.S. Representative including the actions at Battle of Prairie D'Ane, from Arkansas. Born near McMinnville, Warren Battle of Poison Spring, and the Battle of Marks' County, Tennessee, Gunter pursued classical studies Mills. and was graduated from Irving College in 1850. He According to Colton Greene's reports for May studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1853 and and June 1864, Hughey's Battery was attached to commenced practice in Fayetteville, Washington Marmaduke’s Brigade, Colonel Colton Greene County, Arkansas, in 1853. Commanding. This time period would include the During the Civil War served in the Confederate Battle at Ditch Bayou, a.k.a. Battle of Lake Chicot, States Army as Colonel of the Thirteenth on June 6, 1864. It seems that Colonel Greene Regiment, Arkansas Volunteers. He served as thought highly of this unit. prosecuting attorney for the fourth judicial circuit The battery took part in Price's Raid in 1866-1868. He successfully contested as a Democrat Missouri during the fall of 1864, assigned to the election of William W. Wilshire to the Forty- Brigadier General William L. Cabell's brigade of third Congress. He was reelected to the Forty-fourth Major General Fagan's Division. The Battery is and to the three succeeding Congresses and served mentioned in Union Army Reports of the Battle of from June 16, 1874, to March 3, 1883. He served as Fort Davidson, also known as the Battle of Pilot chairman of the Committee on Private Land Claims Knob, on September 27, 1864. (Forty-fourth through Forty-sixth Congresses). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1882. He resumed the practice of law in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and died there 12th January1904. He was interred in Evergreen Cemetery.

General Richard Montgomery Gano

Brigade Commander

Texas Brigade

CONFEDERATE VICTORS AT THE BATTLE OF POISON SPRINGS

14th April 1864 Thursday Skirmish’s at CAMDEN, ARKANSA Munn’s Mill, Gen. Gano Badly Wounded

A Brigade of Confederate Forces, under the Command of General Richard Montgomery Gano, overwhelmed an isolated Regiment of Federal Troops near Munn’s Mill, on the Camden Road, on the 14th April 1864. General Gano, himself was in the midst of the fight and was badly wounded. This would keep General Gano out of the proceeding fight to come on the 18th April 1864 at Poison Springs, he took a twenty day furlough to recuperate from his wound. With General Gano out of action, the In Remembrance of Command of the Texas Brigade passed to the next THE BATTLE OF ELK CREEK Senior Officer Col. Charles DeMorse, who INDIAN TERRITORY became acting Brigadier General. DeMorse reported that he had six hundred fifty five men in his newly acquired Brigade.

Colonel Charles DeMorse Major Joseph Alexander Carroll

Commanding the 29th Texas Cavalry Regiment

During the Camden Campaign of April 1864, General Gano took a twenty day furlough to Became Brigade Commander at recuperate from a wound he received at Munn’s The Battle of Poison Springs Mill, and left Colonel DeMorse, the next Senior Officer present, in Command of the Brigade. Brig. Gen. Samuel Bell Maxey's Division Major Carroll took Command of the 29th Texas included Gano's Brigade, commanded by Cavalry during the Battle of Poison Spring, Colonel Charles DeMorse, with 655 men and 4 Arkansas 18th April 1864. pieces of artillery, and Walker's Brigade that After the War, In February 1876 Joe was elected consisted of 680 Choctaw men. Maxey, encamped judge of the 16th District which included Denton, at a different location than Marmaduke, and agreed Tarrant, Parker, Jack, Wise Montague, Clay and to rendezvous with the rest of the Confederate Force Cooke Counties and served until January 1881. He on the road to Camden. declined re-election and embarked in the banking business in Denton, organizing the Exchange “ The Brigade Commanders of Maxey’s National Bank. He served as president of this bank Division, Col. Charles DeMorse of the, 29th Texas until his death. His last public service was to serve Cavalry Regiment, and Col. Tandy Walker, 1st as Mayor of Denton, an office from which he was Choctaw and Chickasaw Regiment for their skill, forced to resign after a one year tenure due to ill gallantry, and daring in conducting their commands health in August 1891. into the fight successfully, through such difficulties, Judge Carroll died 12th October 1891 and was and those who assisted, deserve great credit. Of the buried in the Odd Fellows Cemetery at Denton, Choctaw Brigade, I have already spoken. The Texas Texas. Joe, Celia, Martha, and the infant Anne are Brigade did its whole duty, gloriously fighting, as all buried in Section C of that Cemetery. Texans know how to fight”.

Report of General Sam Bell Maxey

Lieutenant Colonel Major Michael Looscan Nicholas William Battle

Commanding the Commanding the 30th Texas Cavalry Regiment 31st Texas Cavalry Regiment

HISTORICAL NOTES: HISTORICAL NOTES:

The Texas 31st Cavalry Regiment was The Texas 30th Cavalry Regiment [also called assembled at Waco, Texas, during the spring of 1st Texas Partisan Rangers] was organized at Waco, 1862 with men from Dallas, Longview, and Texas, during the summer of 1862. It was formed Greenville. The unit served in Arkansas, Missouri, with about 800 from Waco and Round Rock, and and the Indian Territory, then was dismounted Hill Country. Assigned to D.H. Cooper's, Gano's, toward the end of 1862. Later it was ordered east of and Parsons' Brigade, Trans-Mississippi the Mississippi River and in the winter of 1863- Department, it fought in Arkansas and later in the 1864 returned to the Trans-Mississippi Department Indiana Territory. The unit reported 16 casualties and remounted. Assigned to Gano's and J.E. at Poison Spring and 19 at Cabin Creek. During Harrison's Brigade, it fought at Poison Spring May, 186 5, it disbanded at Austin, Texas. and Cabin Creek.

The regiment reported 4 casualties of the 175 FIELD OFFICERS: engaged at Poison Spring, and in March, 1865, Colonel Edward J. Gurley, Lieutenant Colonel there were 22 officers and 212 men present for Nicholas W. Battle, and Major John H. Davenport. duty. It was included in the surrender in June.

Lt. Col. Nicholas Williams Battle FIELD OFFICERS: His Civil War Service: Lt. Col. in 30th Texas Colonels Tresevant C. Hawpe and F.J. Malone, Cavalry (Confederate) Occupation: Lawyer. Lieutenant Colonel G.W. Guess, and Majors Practiced in Waco, TX & later Seattle. Michael L ooscan and William W. Peak.

Birth 1 Jan 1820 Warren County, Georgia. Major Michael Looscan Death 22 Aug 1905 Seattle, King County, Born 1843 Ireland Washington. Died 1897 Houston, Harris County, Texas. Burial Lake View Cemetery Seattle, King County, Buried i n Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, Texas. Washingt on.

Plot

Memorial ID 5256346

Captain William B. Krumbhaar Lieutenant Franklin Marius Gano Commanding the Commanding the Krumbhaar's Texas Battery Welch’s Texas Cavalry Company Also Known as Also Known as G ano’s Guards Krumbhaar’s Horse Artillery

In 1861, Captain Otis G. Welch, raised a Capt. William B. Krumbhaar organized the Company of Texas Volunteers, assigned to the 1st 17th Texas Field Battery, better known as Choctaw, Chickasaw Regiments, in Indian Territory. Krumbhaar's Texas Battery, to serve specifically In the summer of 1862, Capt. Welch along with with Smith P. Bankhead's Brigade in April 1863. men of his Company, in which enlistments had Krumbhaar rose rapidly through the Confederate th expired, enlisted and transferred to the 29 Texas Ranks. Starting at the outbreak of the war in 1861 Cavalry, to form Company E, under Commander as a Private in the Fifth Company Washington Col. Charles DeMorse, with the promotion of Lt. Artillery of New Orleans, by September 1862 Colonel. Krumbhaar received a promotion to Lieutenant. Lt. Franklin Marius Gano, The Brother ( and At the end of 1862, Krumbhaar accompanied not son ) of General Richard M. Gano, replaced Smith P. Bankhead to Texas and became the Welch as Commander, and changed the Company's Captain of his Battery, which had a variety of name to Gano's Guards, which became the personal names including the Texas Horse Artillery and the escort for the General Richard Montgomery Gano. Texas Guards. Most of the men composing the Lt. Frank M. Gano was Commanding the Battery came from Company F of the First Regiment at the engagement at Poison Spring, Regiment Arizona Brigade, and a small number th Arka nsas, on the 18 April 1865. came from Col. Edward J. Gurley's 13th Texas Cavalry. The balance of men enlisted straight into Lieutenant Franklin Marius Gano the Battery from Castroville, Fredericksburg, San Antonio, and a few from western Louisiana, which Birth 11 Dec 1839 Bourbon County, Kentucky. made the Battery thirty men strong. The Battery Death 12 Feb 1881 Williamson County, Texas. joined Bankhead's Brigade in June 1863. By the Burial Georgetown Cemetery spring of 1864 the Brigade had changed Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky. Commanders and names when Brig. Gen. Richard Plot Section: D Lot Number: Montgomery Gano took Command of the now- 2009 Block Number: 1. Grave Number: 9 dubbed Gano's Brigade. In this Command the Memorial ID 100792292 Battery only fired their four mountain howitzers in Battle at Poison Spring, Arkansas. Franklin Marius Gano First Lieutenant, Capt. William Krumbhaar received a pro- Co. F, Hardeman's Texas Cavalry Regiment motion to Major and Chief of Artillery for Indian (31st Cavalry) (1st Regiment, Arizona Brigade) C.S.A. th Territory on 7 October 1864.

Colonel Tandy Walker

Krumbhaar’s Horse Artillery

11th Oct. 1814 – 2nd Feb. 1877

Commanding the 2nd Indian Brigade Tandy Walker was a Confederate Military

Commander during the Civil War. A mixed-blood Choctaw, he was born in Mississippi in 11th Oct. 1814. As a Lieutenant Colonel in 1861, Walker, a former Governor of the Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, was second in Command to Col. Douglas H. Cooper of the First Regiment, of Choctaw and Chickasaw Mounted Rifles. Walker became a Colonel and took Command of the Regiment in January 1863 after Cooper was promoted to Brigadier General. In early 1864 Walker’s Regiment was Krumbhaar left Capt. W. M. Stafford in reorganized as the Second Indian Cavalry Command of the Battery. Capt. Sylvanus Howell, Brigade consisting of his Choctaw and Chickasaw also of Gano's Brigade, replaced Krumbhaar on 12th Troops and a reserve unit of Caddo Indians. Walker March 1865, after Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith, was a capable and highly respected officer. His Commander of the Department of the Trans- Troops played vital roles in the Confederate Mississippi, relieved him of duty. In the last months Victories at; Newtonia, Missouri, in September of the war, Stafford's (Krumbhaar's) Battery joined 1862 and at Poison Spring, Arkansas, in April Howell's Battery and Dashiell's Battery to form the 1864. Seventh Mounted Artillery Battalion, which disbanded in May 1865 as part of Sam Bell Maxey's Tandy Walker died 2nd Feb.1877 at Division. Scullyville, in present LeFlore County, Oklahoma. Photos of Douglas Battery Re-Enactors, Tyler Texas. Taken By: Comm. Bobby W. Smith 29th Texas Cavalry SCV Camp # 2269.

Second Indian Cavalry Brigade Second Indian Cavalry Brigade

Lt. Colonel James Riley Colonel Simpson N. Folsom

1st Choctaw and Chickasaw 2nd Choctaw and Chickasaw Mounted Rifles Regiment Mounted Rifles Regiment

The 1st Choctaw and Chickasaw Mounted Colonel Simpson N. Folsom, was born in 1828 Rifles formed at Scullyville, Choctaw Nation, in in Masulatubbee Dist, Choctaw Nation, Indian July, 1861. The Regiment had six companies of Territory and died about 1901, about age 73. Choctaws, three of Chickasaw, and one of half- Another name for Simpson was Sim Folsom. breeds. It surrendered on 23rd June 1865. The Field Officers were Colonel Douglas H. Cooper; Noted events in his life were: Lieutenant Colonels James Riley and Tandy Walker; and Majors Willis J. Jones, Mitchell LeFlore, and • Dawes Roll: Doaksville, , I.T. Dawes Roll No. Stephen Loering. 3842, Card 1395, age 71, M, 1/2 Choctaw BB In 1864 all of the Indian Units in Indian Territory were consolidated into a single Division • Military Service: Colonel Simpson N. Folsom Commanded by Cooper. Within the Division served in Civil War in the 2nd Choctaw Regiment Walker's First Regiment Mounted Rifles reorganized Calvary in the Brigade of General Douglass H. into the Second Indian Cavalry Brigade. On 18th Cooper and Division of Major-General James F. April 1864 the Brigade contributed to a Confederate Fagan. At this time he Commanded a detachment Victory at Poison Spring, Arkansas, eliciting praise from the first and second regiments of Choctaws. from Gen. Samuel Bell Maxey, in overall Command He was in the Engagement at Poison Spring in of Indian Territory. Poison Spring was the last April 1864 under the Command of Brig-Gen. Sam major engagement of the Choctaw-Chickasaw Bell Maxey with his Regiment the 2nd Choctaw Mounted Rifles. As Confederate hopes for victory Indians. He was spoken of with praise for his faded through the remainder of 1864 and on into bravery by his superior officers. In July 1864 near 1865, its Indian allies contemplated capitulation and Fort Smith. their future status with the Union.

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The Great Seal of The Great Seal of Choctaw and Chicka saw Nation

Choctaw and Chicka saw Nation

Crawford's Brigade

Direction. Col. Crawford however with 100 of the Col. William A. Crawford Reg. proceeded to the Miss. River near Luna Landing & there partially succeeded in driving out Commander of Crawford’s Brigade part of the Federal Marines on the 22d Feb., drove them back precipitately & killed one man & horse The Crawford's 1st Arkansas Cavalry dead on the field & wounded 8 or 10 other Federals Regiment (1863–1865) was a Confederate Army badly, without any injury on his part whatever & Cavalry Regiment during the American Civil War. rejoined the Reg. near Monticello on the 24th Feb. The unit was originally organized as a Battalion, but where the Reg. arrived 3 days before. The Reg. after a short while, two additional companies were remained there until the 27th Feb. when it removed added bringing the unit to Regimental strength. here some 15 miles nearly east of Monticello where Officially designated by the State Military Board as the Reg. & its Hd. Qrs. are now roughly the 10th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment, it was almost bivouacked but faring pretty well not never referred to as such during the Civil War. It withstanding". was generally referred to in contemporary documents as Crawford’s 1st Arkansas Cavalry. The Field Officers were: The Compiled Service Records of the men are archived under 1st (Crawford’s) Arkansas Colonel William A. Crawford. Cavalry, Rolls 1 and 2. Lieutenant Colonel Dawson Lee Killgore. Crawford’s Cavalry was assigned to Fagan’s Major John Wesley Walker. Cavalry Division of the Trans-Mississippi Army, Surgeon William Thomp son. Brigaded with Wright’s cavalry Regiment and Poe’s and McMurtrey’s Cavalry Battalions. It was active The Crawford's 1st Arkansas Cavalry was in the Battles associated with the Camden involved in the following engagements: Expedition in the Spring of 1864, and was heavily engaged in the many Battles of Price’s Missouri Red River Campaign, Arkansas, Campaign in the Fall of 1864. The following Mar-May, 1864. notation appeared on the Field and Staff muster roll for the period ended February 29, 1864, stationed at Battle of Mt Elba, Arkansas, Cut Off, Drew County, Arkansas. March 29, 1864. “This Regiment was organized at Camden, Battle of Jenkins Ferry, Arkansas, Arks, on the 30th day of Dec. 1863, in the vicinity of April 30, 1864. which place Reg. Hd. Qrs. remained until the 13th of Battle of Poison Spring, Arkansas, Jan., when the Regiment marched to the Arkansas April 18, 1864. River, a distance of 120 miles (190 km) from Battle of Marks' Mills, Arkansas, Camden, under orders from Gen’l Fagan & brought April 25, 186 4. from Ark. River droves of beeves and fat hogs to Monticello, at which place the Regiment arrived Price's Missouri Raid, Arkansas-Missouri- about the 25th of Jan. 1864. The beeves & hogs Kansas, September–October, 1864. were drove to Camden for the Army by details from this Reg. The Regiment removed the latter part of Jan. to Warren, Arks, 18 miles (29 km) west of Monticello, remained there 6 days, whence back to Monticello, thence on the 16th Feb. moved in direction of Gains Landing on Miss. River. The Reg. on account of the wretched condition of the Cut Off & bad roads proceeded only 15 miles (24 km) in that

Crawford's Brigade Division. My Command moved rapidly and steadily forward, firing volley upon volley at the fleeing foe The 2nd Arkansas Cavalry charged them on Captain Obediah B. Tebbs horseback, and men and officers acted well, 2nd Arkansas Cavalry Regiment capturing two pieces of the enemy’s artillery. Capt Snell, of this Regiment, deserves especial notice, The 2nd Arkansas Cavalry Regiment and Capt Tebbs acted like a hero until he was (Slemons') (1861–1865) was a Confederate Army wounded and carried from the field. My Cavalry Regiment during the American Civil War. dismounted men pursued rapidly the enemy for 21 This regiment was also referred to in the official miles, shouting and huzzaing, and bringing back records as the 4th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment. with them four pieces of artillery that had been Another regiment, commanded by Colonel Thomas captured from time enemy. All, every officer and J. Morgan, was also designated as the 2nd Arkansas soldier, fought like men, and deserve much credit. Cavalry Regiment. Following Price's Raid in 1864, The casualties in the Brigade were 1 man the survivors of the regiment were reorganized as killed and 7 wounded. I am much indebted to the 18th Arkansas Cavalry Battalion, which was also Capt’s Warren, McFarland, McCabe, and Lt Webb, referred to as McMurtrey's Arkansas Cavalry of my staff, for their valuable services. They Battalion. discharged well their duties and acted most Company F – Captain O.B. Tebbs. This gallantly. Company had served as Company E, 2nd Arkansas Cavalry Battalion. Captain Obediah B. Tebbs

Camden Expedition Tebbs, Obediah B. Private—Enlisted in Co. A, 3rd Arkansas Infantry, at Portland, Arkansas, While Colonel Slemons himself was still east of 20th 1861; furloughed to Arkansas; absent without the Mississippi River, members of the 2nd leave, February 1862; enlisted in Co. E, 2nd Arkansas Cavalry Regiment who had reformed Arkansas Cavalry Battalion, at Hamburg, Arkansas, west of the river fought in Cabell's, Gano's, and 24th March 1862; elected Captain, 24th March Dockery's Brigades in the Camden Expedition 1862; transferred to Co. F, 2nd Arkansas Cavalry including the Battles of Mount Elba, Poison Regiment, 15th May 1862; resigned, 18th August Spring, Marks' Mills, and Jenkins' Ferry. 1862; Born in Prince William, Virginia, 22nd January 1825; Died in Arkansas, 11th August1870; Report of Col William A. Crawford, Ark in Arkansas, Buried in Hamburg Cemetery, Ashley Cavalry, Commanding Brigade, of Engagement County, Arkansas; Married Susannah C. Anderson; at Poison Spring Headquarters Brigade, In the listed in Ashley County 1860 census; occupation Field-I have the honor to submit the following report farmer; brother of Captain William H. Tebbs. of the part enacted by the troops of my Brigade in the Engagement with the enemy at Poison Spring th Tebbs, William H. Captain—Enlisted in Co. on the 18 April 1864. A portion of my Brigade A, 3rd Arkansas Infantry, at Portland, Arkansas, consisting of Crawford’s and Wright’s Regiments. th th 20 May 1861; elected captain, 20 May 1861; and Poe’s Battalion, were dismounted and placed on elected Lieutenant-Colonel, 11th March 1862; the right of Gen. Cabell’s Brigade as a support for resigned, 11th January 1863; born in Virginia, Hughey’s Battery. The 2nd Arkansas Cavalry, c1823; listed in Ashley County 1860 census with Capt. Tebbs Commanding, were placed (mounted) wife Martha C.; occupation farmer; brother of on the extreme right to protect the flank. Skirmishers Private/ Captain: Obediah B. Tebbs. were placed in my front, who kept up a brisk and successful fire. I remained so placed until I was ordered forward by Brig-Gen Cabell, Commanding

Crawford's Brigade After the war, Wright returned to Union County and served as Circuit and County Clerk and State Representative. He died 18th January 1915. A Colonel John Crowell Wright compilation of Wright's memoirs were published in Wright's Arkansas Cavalry Regiment 1982 under the title "Memoirs of Colonel John C. Wright C.S.A. Biographical / Historical Note:

John Crowell Wright was born 14th March 1835, in Georgia, and moved with his family to Union County, Arkansas, in 1843. He married Mary Alabama Newton on 29th March 1859. At the start of the Civil War, Wright joined the Confederate Army and was elected Captain of Company C, 15th Infantry Regiment, and then Lieutenant Colonel. Captured at Fort Donelson,

Tennessee, Wright escaped and rejoined the Confederate Army, serving in Arkansas with the Regiment of his brother-in-law, Asa Morgan, and then as Colonel in the 12th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment.

12th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment

By mid-January, 1864, three additional Companies had been attached to Wright's Battalion, and, on 15th February 1864, the Battalion was officially enrolled in Confederate service as the 12th (Wright's) Regiment Arkansas Cavalry. The Regiment was assigned to Colonel William A. Crawford's Brigade of Brigadier-General James F. Fagan's Cavalry Division in Major-General Price's Cavalry Corps of the Confederate Army of the Trans-Mississippi Department. The other units assigned to the brigade were the 1st Arkansas Cavalry Regiment (Crawford's), Poe's Arkansas Cavalry Battalion and McMurtrey's Arkansas Cavalry Battalion. Wright's Cavalry Regiment was engaged in the Battles associated with the Camden Expedition in the spring of 1864, particularly in the actions at Poison Spring and Marks' Mills. The regiment took part in Price's Raid in Missouri during the fall of 1864.

Crawford's Brigade The reorganized regiment was ordered to lower Mississippi. In March 1863, the 11th and (Griffith's) 17th Arkansas Infantry Regiment were Major James Thomas Poe Consolidated and Mounted. Colonel John L. Logan Poe's Arkansas Cavalry Regiment was placed in command. The Consolidated Regiment was dispatched to Clinton, Mississippi, to

head off the raid of the Federal General Grierson, State House of Representatives for but failed to meet him. At this time Colonel Logan Columbia Co. AR 1875-76 and 1891-92 served as the Commander of a Brigade which Author The Raving Foe, a diary of Major James T. included 11th/17th so Col Griffin, originally of the Poe, C. S. A. and the 11th Arkansas Volunteers, 17th Arkansas, was often in Field Command of the compiled and edited b y J. C. Poe in 1967. Consolidated Regiment. The unit operated outside

the fortifications of Port Hudson during the siege in The 11th Arkansas Infantry (1861–1865) was March 1863. This detachment operated against the a Confederate Army Infantry Regiment during the army under General Banks in Louisiana, and took a American Civil War. Following the units surrender number of prisoners, among them Gen. Neal Dow. during the Battle of Island No. 10, it was Some members of the 11/17th Consolidated consolidated with Griffiths 17th Arkansas Arkansas Mounted Infantry were captured at the Infantry Regiment and Mounted. Following the Siege of Port Hudson on 9th July 1863. These men surrender of Port Hudson, some unit members were later released and exchanged in Arkansas and returned to Arkansas and became part of Poe's many would later join Poe's Arkansas Cavalry Arkansas Cavalry Battalion and Logan's 11th Battalion. Arkansas Cavalry Regiment.

The 11th and 12th Arkansas Infantry th Poe’s Arkansas Cavalry Battalion was a Regiments were exchanged 16 September 1862, at Vicksburg, Mississippi. Because their original one- Confederate Cavalry unit that served in the Trans- Mississippi Department, entirely in Arkansas, year enlistment was expiring, the regiment was during the American Civil War. It participated in required to be reorganized for two additional years. military engagements at Mount Elba, Easling’s This reorganization resulted in the election of the Farm, Poison Spring, Marks’ Mills, and Hurricane follow ing officers: Creek, as well as undertaking scouting and

picketing duties in southern Arkansas. During Col. John L. Logan. Price’s Missouri Raid in 1864, it was one of the few Lieut. Col. M. D. Vance. Cavalry units left behind to keep watch over Maj. James Thomas Poe. Federal troops in Arkansas. Adjt. Edward A. Warren. During the April 1864 Camden Expedition, Quartermaster E. Whitfield. the battalion, as part of Major General Sterling Commissary Clerk. Price’s Cavalry, operated against Brigadier General Surgeon James Whitfield. Frederick Steele’s forces in southern Arkansas. Company A – Capt. Jasper Shepherd. Poe’s Battalion, as part of Crawford’s Brigade, Company B – Capt. Claiborne Watkins. engaged and assisted in the destruction of a Union Company C – Capt. James D. Burke. supply train at Poison Springs on 18th April 1864. Company D – Capt. A. A. Crawford. Seven days later, they engaged a large Federal force Company E – Capt. William Russell Selvidge at Marks’ Mills, assisting in the complete Company F – Capt. L. H. Kemp. destruction and capture of the entire force. When Company G – Capt. Frank Scott. Steele’s army retreated back to Little Rock after the Company H – Captain Matthews. Engagement at Jenkins’ Ferry, the battalion Company I – Capt. W. F. Morton. continued to scout and picket areas of south-central Company K – Anderson Cunningham. Arkansas for the remainder of the summer.

Marmaduke's Cavalry Division Marmaduke, Commanded a Cavalry Division in the Trans-Mississippi Department, serving in the Red River Campaign. During this period, Marmaduke once again was involved in controversy. Commanding a mixed force of Confederate Troops, including Native-American soldiers of the 1st and 2nd Choctaw Regiments, Marmaduke defeated a Federal foraging detachment at the Battle of Poison Spring, Arkansas on 18th, April 1864. Marmaduke's men were accused of murdering African-American soldiers of the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry (later designated the 79th U.S. Colored Infantry). Marmaduke and other white officers claimed that the accusations of illegal killings were overblown, and blamed any murders that may have happened on the Choctaw Troops who, in the words of one Confederate, did "kill and scalp some" of the black troops. He was hailed in the Confederate press for what was publicized as a significant Southern Victory.

John Sappington Marmaduke Born: 14th, March 1833 Saline County, Missouri. Died: 28th December 1887 (aged 54) Jefferson City, Missouri. Brigadier General Cause of Death: Pneumonia. Burial: Woodland Cemetery, John Sappington Marmaduke Jefferson City, Missouri.

th 38°34 ′02.7″N 92°09′43.6″W John Sappington Marmaduke; born 14 March 1833 – died 28th December 1887, served as the 25th Governor of Missouri from 1885 until his death in 1887. Prior to this he was a senior officer of the Confederate States Army who Commanded Cavalry in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War. In 1863, Marmaduke killed Confederate Brigadier-General Lucius M. Walker in a famous duel. Major-General Sterling Price ordered Marmaduke's arrest, but suspended the order because of the impending Federal advance on Little Rock, Arkansas. Marmaduke never faced a court martial for his actions on September 6.

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Colonel Colton Greene Brigade Lieutenant Colonel Col. Colton Greene (full name possibly George Leonidas Adolphus Campbell Colton Greene) was born 7th July 1833 in South Carolina, according to his postwar application for a 3rd Missouri Cavalry Regiment passport. Little is known of his parents or education, and he reportedly never married nor would discuss his past with anyone. One story, current in Memphis The 3rd Missouri Cavalry Regiment was at the time, was that he killed a man in a duel in organized during the summer of 1862 with men South Carolina, and then came west. By 1857 he from Springfield and Newtonia, and Polk County. was living in St. Louis, Missouri, where he was Many of its members had seen prior service in the involved in politics with the state's Democratic Missouri State Guard. It served in Shelby's, C. Party. Greene was a wealthy and successful Green's, and J.B. Clark's Brigade, Trans- wholesale grocer in St. Louis by 1860. Also that Mississippi Department. The unit fought in year Greene became a partner in the St. Louis firm Marmaduke's Expedition into Arkansas and of Hoyt & Company. Missouri, participated in numerous conflicts in In 1863, Col. Greene led Marmaduke's Cavalry Arkansas, under the Command of Gen. Brigade (including the 3rd Missouri) during the Marmaduke, It Lost 26 men under Marmaduke’s Union Victory at the Battle of Helena in Phillips th Command, 9 at Helena, and 4 at Bayou Fourche. County, Arkansas, on 4 July. Green then The Regiment lost 2 killed and 5 wounded at participated during the Battles of the 1864 Red Poison Spring, 6 killed and 31 wounded at River Campaign in the Trans-Mississippi Jenkins’s Ferry, and 19 killed and 110 wounded Theater. He fought in the Camden Expedition and during Price's Expedition. the Battle of Poison Spring around Lee Plantation, th In the spring of 1865 it disbanded. The field about 10 miles from Camden, Arkansas, on 18 officers were Colonel Colton Green, Lieutenant April 1864. His command was in reserve in the Colonels L.A. Campbell and L.C. Campbell, and action and entered a hole in the Confederate line that Major James Surridge. was caused by Union artillery fire. Greene plugged that hole and sealed the victory, routing the Born: January 1835 remaining Union defensive line. This fight is noted Springfield, Greene County, Missouri. for accusations of the murdering of wounded Died: 7th September 1882 Age 47 Federal United States Colored Troops as they Springfield, Greene County, Missouri. surrendered, left behind when the Union forces Burial: Hazelwood Cemetery, retreated. rd Springfield, Greene County, Missouri. Greene died in Memphis 23 September 1900, and Find A Grave Memorial ID- 35025399 was buried there in Elmwood Cemetery.

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Lt. Colonel William J. Preston Captain J. H. Cobb

4th Missouri Cavalry Regiment 8th Missouri Cavalry Regiment ( Detachment )

This Regiment was organized in December This Regiment served in Marmaduke's Division 1861 and included men from Preston's Missouri in the Expedition into Arkansas, and Missouri. Cavalry Regiment. Some of the men were from St. It participated in numerous conflicts in Arkansas, Louis and Barton County and many had prior under the Command of Gen. John Sappington service in the Missouri State Guard. Marmaduke. It served in Brigadier General Joseph O. Gen. Marmaduke’s Command, at Poison Shelby's, Colton Green's, and J.B. Clark's Brigade, Spring, at Jerkin’s Ferry, and Price's Trans-Mississippi Department. The Regiment fought Expedition. in Brigadier General Marmaduke's Expedition into Arkansas and Missouri, participated in numerous conflicts in Arkansas. It lost 11 men under Gen. Marmaduke’s Command, 6 at Poison Spring, 13 at Jenkins' Ferry and 63 during Price's Expedition. It was included in the, disband on 2nd Marmaduke's Cavalry Division June1865 of the Trans-Mississippi Department. Captain S.S. Harris Field Officer’s were: Col. John Q. Burbridge, Lt. Col. William J. Preston, Maj. Dennis Smith.

Note: Preston's Battalion, Cavalry Rank : Major.

Harris' Missouri Battery---- Army of Harris' 4th Field Battery Missouri Light Artillery, CSA

This Battery served under, Brigadier General Marmaduke's Division in the Expedition into Arkansas and Missouri, it participated in numerous conflicts in Arkansas. Gen. Marmaduke’s Command, at Poison Spring, at Jenkins' Ferry and Price's Expedition.

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