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John D. Walker was born in Madison County, Alabama, in about 1833, grandson of Revolutionary War veteran Capt. James Walker, and cousin/step-brother to Lt. Garland W. Walker, also of the 33rd Arkansas Infantry. After the war, John teamed up with another cousin/step-brother, Samuel Reed Walker, as itinerant photographers. John's son Garland Adison Walker, farmer/storekeeper/schoolteacher/photographer, born in 1855, in Columbia County, Arkansas, moved to Ada, Arkansas, near Morrilton and Petit Jean Mountain, and was my maternal grandmother's father.

Grandison Wallace was my grandfather. He also had other brothers in civil war. Samuel S. Wallace, Dru Allen Wallace, Jr. and Dru Allen Wallace, Sr.

Enlisted June 20, 1862 Killed April 20, 1864

Enlisted June of 1864 in Company A or B of Thompson's Regiment, Tappan's Brigade according to my genealogy research.

Enlisted in Company B, Arkansas 33rd Infantry Regiment. Company B, Commanded by Captain Dee Newton, was organized in Ouachita County, Arkansas on June 17, 1862.

Thaddeous was born in Tennessee 24 May 1833. In 1860 he is 27 years old and living in Jefferson, Quinchia County, Arkansas. The Post Office is at Leake's Store. He has 5 cards in his archival file. He enlists 17 June 1862 at Camden by Col. Grinsted [ Camp White Sulpher] for 3 years. Capt. Donaldson's Company. In Aug 1863 he is on detached duty at Monroe as guard. His last CMR shows him on duty in Feb of 1864. Fought in the Red River Campaign and in Arkansas at Prairie Grove, Little Rock, Pleasant Hill, & Jenkins Ferry. Note the Commander Col Grinstead was killed in this the final fight. He died 21 Dec 1912 in Fannin County, Texas and is buried there in Bettes Cem at Bonham. He was the husband of my 3rd cousin 3 x removed.

If anyone has knowledge of a photo of this Unit I am interested in seeing it.......

Wiley C. White was my great, great grqandfather from Polk County Arkansas, Fulton Township

1842-1863 Died of disease in Little Rock, Arkansas on 19 March 1863.

1841-1904

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Enlisted as a Private.Enlisted in Company E, 33rd Infantry Regiment Arkansas.
POW

William was born in Union Co. Kentucky 6 Aug 1823. He enlisted at Camp Bragg, Arkansas on 13 Dec 1863. He has two cards in his archival file. Enlisted by Capt Grinsteh for 3 years . Camp Bragg was a camp of Instruction later moved to Camp White. His first major engagement would have been the Red River Campaign conducted mostly in Louisiana. It is believed he was home sick when the last CMR was completed as it states he is Absent sick , awol since 1 Feb 1864. One source gives his Company as Co. A. He died 16 March 1894 in Clark County Ark. He was married several times and it is noted that his last wife Milberry Kizer filed for CSA pension in 1901. I have not located that pension. We are related by a distant marriage.

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My gg uncle Jesse J. Leard was born 1844 in Anson Co., NC, and by 1857 was living in Clark Co. Arkansas with his wife Mary McDougle and children. After the war he and his family moved to Fannin Co. Texas. He died in 1893 and is buried in Rehobeth Cemetery.

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George Washington Hughen was born March 1837 probably in Coweta County, Georgia, the son of James Hughen and Elizabeth Anthony. About 1860, he married Mary Elizabeth (called Martha) Meeks, the daughter of Britton Meeks and Mary Ann Couy. They had the two boys—William Washington, born in January 1861, and George Britton (aka Bud), born 27 October 1862. Apparently, Martha apparently died at the time Bud was born or shortly after. George was not at home at the time, for he had enlisted in the Army on 24 June 1862 in Montgomery County, Arkansas. He came home, where he arranged for his in-laws to care for his 2 small children. When he started back to his unit, George agreed to escort a young woman there also. Harriet Catherine (the daughter of Fielding Strawn and Nancy Ann Thomas) had married James H. Stovall less than a year earlier. James had been wounded and word was that there was no nursing care, so Harriet was going to him. James died from his wounds. When George got home from the War, Harriet and he were married on 12 July 1864 in Clark County, Arkansas. They had George’s two little boys for a while but the children spent most of their time down the road at their Meeks grandparents. Harriet and George had 6 children—Richard Taylor, Laura Florence, Wallace G. {aka Frank), John Wesley, Julia Easter, Charles Dickens Hicks--all born in Black Springs, Montgomery County, Arkansas. The family moved to Texas in the late 1890s or early 1900s. George died about 1907. On his way home one winter night, he fell into a ditch and passed out. They found him dead the next morning. Harriet died about 1913 in Frost, Navarro County, Texas. She was living with her daughter Laura Florence (Mrs. James Luther) Stockard at the time. As she lighted an oil lamp one evening, it exploded, and Harriet was severely burned. In the Frost Cemetery [Frost, Navarro County, Texas) in the Stockard Plot, there are stones for Laura and James, for one of their daughters, and for Harriet. There is also an unmarked mound, so old, you probably wouldn't notice if you weren't looking for it. It is believed to be the grave of George Washington Hughen. (George Washington Hughen is my 2nd great grand uncle.)

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Hugh was born in Monroe County Mississippi and moved to Montgomery County Ark. He was abt. 16 years old when he enlisted at Caddo Gap, Arkansas. Enlisting on 21 Sept 1863 for 3 years or the war. He has two CMR cards in his archival file. He survived the illegal attach on his person and home. He is the son in law of Sarah Jane Thomas, my 4th cousin 3 x removed

I have read that he was left in a hospital in Louisiana sick. Not sure if he died there or got well and moved on. Would love any more info any one can share!

Fought at Prairie Grove and Jenkins Ferry.

The following is an autobiographical sketch by James Sanders Butler:

Old Timer Give History
by J.S. Butler
To The Messenger

Will give you a little sketch of my life. I now live on route 5 out of Quinlan, I was born in 1844 in Itawamba county, Mississippi and move the same year to Arkansas, 25 miles east of Camden which was a very small village at that time, but is now quite a city with the Cotton Belt Railway passing through.
I was reared in Calhoun County Arkansas--Now ? . Entered the Confederacy from same county at the age of 17 years. Weighed 85 pounds. Bankford was my captain, Company K, Gridtesda regiment, and Tappan's brigade,
Church Hill Division. Took winter quarters at several places, was ordered to meet Genl. Bank's who was marching thorough Louisiana to Shreveport. Met him at Mansfield with a hearty reception of shot and shell. Walkers division doing the hardest fighting in the engagement.
My command was then ordered to double quick to Pleasant Hill where another hearty reception resulted in his retreat to Gun Boats ? Red River. We captured one thousand to fifteen hundred federal soldiers and that was about the only pleasant feature of Pleasant Hill on day of battle. General Walker's division entitled to the greatest praise.
We were then ordered to Camden to meet Genl. Steel who held the village and were thrown in battle line a mile west of Camden and threw bomb shells and cannon balls into the town.
Genl. Steel retreated to Little Rock and we overtook him the second day at Saline River, Jenkins ferry and a hard fought battle followed in which my Colonel and my Captain were both killed. I was beside by Colonel when he fell and a braver man never lived. His words were 'Charge them Boys!'
My regiment entered the battle as front guard and our losses were heavy. Our Lieutenant Colonel Thompson ordered 'retreat in good order' and if this retreat was good order, I don't know what they would call bad. My whole company was almost killed or wounded, myself being among the wounded, loosing two fingers and also my knap sack was shot off my back, the strap? being cut by a bullet, and a bullet went through my hat taking a whisp of hair. We then fell back with our command and moved on again driving Steel across the river toward Little Rock.
We were ordered back to Shreveport and were paroled out at Marshall, Texas and returned to our wasted homes.
In 1874 moved to Texas settling five miles south of Greenville on the Old Dock Galbraith place. I was acquainted with all the old timers near Greenville such men as David Shinson, father S. D. Shinson of Greenville, Wylie SoRoalle, Uncle Billie Horn, M..H. Wright, familiarly know as McWright.
Greenville was a small village no railroad, telephone or radio in those days. I knew the cattle brands of many of the old timers such as Glint Oldham, D. B. Tomking's, Sell Arnold's brand ? Dick Oldham, I.D. and Jackson's brand was bow and arrow and old man Blocks brand Blok. Could name many old timers but not necessary

Note: The original has been lost. This is a copy which has been handed down in our family. Some parts are unclear. I did the best I could to make out those parts.

Darlene Denton

Enlisted 23 June 1863 age 19 at Salem AR. Never wounded or captured. Attained the rank of Sgt. and present at the end of the war, Feb 29, 1864.

Grand Nephew of wife Justina Hickman Ogelsby