Category: Arkansas

According to family history, John Baker fought alongside his son, John, and step-son Lewis Griffie Thornton with Fristoe’s Regiment, Freeman’s Brigade, Captain Meadow’s company during the War of Northern Aggression. John is listed as a private in Company F, under the command of Captain S. M. Elliott and Captain David C. Meadows. Fristoe’s Regiment was […]

According to family history, Jesse Baker fought alongside his father, John, and half-brother Lewis Griffie Thornton with Fristoe’s Regiment, Freeman’s Brigade, Captain Meadow’s company during the War of Northern Aggression. Jesse is listed as a private in Company F, under the command of Captain S. M. Elliott and Captain David C. Meadows. Fristoe’s Regiment was […]

Rhodes, John W Private—Enlisted in Co. D, 10th Arkansas Cavalry, at Camden, Arkansas, October 25, 1863; present, February 29, 1864; captured at Longview, Arkansas, March 29, 1864; confined at U.S. Military Prison, Little Rock, Arkansas, until released on oath of allegiance on May 7, 1865; previously served in Co. C, 15th (Johnson’s) Arkansas Infantry; born […]

Born in 1826 in Overton County Tennessee.  Emigrated to Arkansas with his wife Permelia and family by way of Overton, Tennessee.  Then to Dahlonega, Georgia. and then to Chinese Camp, California.   After California, headed back east and homesteaded in Madison County, Kings River Community in Arkansas in 1857.   Their group included his family of 4 […]

Joel Gilmore Wood was born in Cherokee County, Alabama on October 7, 1829, the son of  William H. Wood (1806 – 1861) and Elmira Lane (1808 – 1866). January 29, 1854, he was married to Maria Evans, daughter of Jesse and Caroline (Anderson) Evans. Joel and Maria farmed in Alabama for two years after their […]

William S. Hutchison was born 1836 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.  At age 28, he enlisted in Lawrence County, Arkansas to the 10th Arkansas Cavalry.  He also served in (Buster’s) 15th Cav Battalion, and ended up in Company C (commanded by Captain Joshua Wann) of the 45th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment, commanded by Colonel Milton D Baber.  This […]