Dowd’s Company, State Troops

Marion county, Arkansas

Captain James R. Dowd organized a company of volunteers at Yellville, Marion county, Arkansas, May 22, 1861.  They traveled to Camp Walker, Arkansas, where they were enrolled in State service as Company E, Fifth Regiment, Arkansas State Troops, July 11, 1861, under command of Colonel Thomas Pleasant Dockery.  As part of Brigadier-General Nicholas  Bartlett Pearce’s brigade, the Fifth Regiment took part in the Battle of Wilson’s Creek, Missouri, August 10, 1861, where the regiment suffered casualites of three killed and eleven wounded.  Of those, Dowd’s company suffered five wounded.  All of the State troops were mustered out of service in late August and early September, 1861, releasing the volunteers to return to their homes and organize companies for Confederate service.  Most of Dowd’s company subsequently enlisted in Confederate service.  Several served in the Twenty-seventh Arkansas Infantry Regiment, CSA.

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Allen, Bitham—Private.    Age 18, born in North Carolina, farmer.

Allen, Joseph B—Private.    Age 40, born in North Carolina, farmer.

Austin, Wesley A—Private.    Age 20, born in Tennessee, schoolteacher.

Barrett, David M—Private.    Age 17, born in Tennessee, farmer.

Bennett, Champion H—Private.    Age 24, born in Arkansas, farmer.

Bennett, Joseph—Private.    Age 23, born in Arkansas, farmer.

Billingsley, William—Private.    Age 30, born in Tennessee, farmer.

Birch, Pinson—Private.    Age 20, born in Georgia, farmer.

Blythe, Anderson J—Private.    Age 17, born in Arkansas, farmer.

Brake, Stephen B—Ensign.    Age 26, born in Ohio, carpenter.

Brewer, William—Private.    Age 20, born in Cherokee Nation, farmer.

Brown, Austin—Private.    Age 26, born in Missouri, farmer.

Churchman, Reuben—Private.    Age 60, born in Tennessee, farmer.

Churchman, Robert M—Private.    Age 18, born in Arkansas, farmer.

Cockerham, Pleasant L—Private.    Age 31, born in North Carolina, farmer; wounded at Wilson’s Creek.

Cooper, John—Third Corporal.   Age 35, born in Tennessee, farmer.

Cooper, Phillip—Private.    Age 26, born in Tennessee, farmer.

Dooley, Charles—Private.    Age 27, born in Tennessee, farmer.

Doshier, Henry—Private.    Age 24, born in Tennessee, farmer.

Doshier, John H—Second Sergeant.    Age 35, born in Tennessee, farmer.

Doshier, John R—Private.    Age 18, born in Tennessee, farmer.

Dowd, James R—Captain.    Age 32, born in Georgia, schoolteacher.

Estes, James—Second Corporal.    Age 22, born in Tennessee, deputy clerk.

Eudaley, William T—Private.    Age 38, born in Georgia, farmer.

Evans, Hartwell—Private.    Age 21, born in Arkansas, farmer.

Evans, William R—Private.    Age 22, born in Tennessee, farmer.

Farmer, Leopold—Private.    Age 20, born in Missouri, politician.

Finley, James M—Private.    Age 20, born in Arkansas, farmer.

Goodall, Joseph C—Private.    Age 35, born in Illinois, farmer; wounded at Wilson’s Creek.

Hall, Abner—Private.    Age 32, born in Alabama, farmer.

Hall, George Washington—Private.    Age 20, born in Indiana, engineer.

Hall, William—Private.    Age 37, born in Alabama, farmer.

Harwell, James D—Private.    Age 28, born in Missouri, farmer.

Haskett, Joseph—Private.    Age 18, born in Tennessee, farmer.

Hensley, John A—Private.    Age 22, born in Tennessee, farmer.

Herring, John G—Private.    Age 41, born in Germany, blacksmith.

Hitchcock, James A—Fourth Sergeant.    Age 25, born in Tennessee, farmer.

Hodges, Marmaduke—Private.    Age 19, born in Tennessee, farmer.

Hollis, Malloy L—First Sergeant.    Age 31, born in Tennessee, farmer.

Hull, John E—First Lieutenant.    Age 33, born in Pennsylvania, farmer.

Ingram, Ephraim M—Private.    Age 20, born in Arkansas, farmer.

Ingram, James H—Private.    Age 22, born in Arkansas, farmer.

Johnson, Christopher Columbus—Private.    Age 25, born in Tennessee, farmer.

King, Allen—Private.    Age 23, born in Kentucky, mail-carrier.

King, Bryant—Private.    Age 19, born in Kentucky, farmer.

Layton, John J—Private.    Age 29, born in Virginia, stage-driver.

Lovell, Samuel I—Private.    Age 22, born in Kentucky, farmer.

Lowrey, William C—Private.    Age 23, born in Tennessee, farmer.

McCabe, James H—Private.    Age 21, born in Tennessee, farmer.

McVey, James—Private.    Age 19, born in Arkansas, farmer.

Marrs, William L—Private.    Age 18, nativity not stated, farmer.

Mears, Marcus Lafayette “Mark”—Private.    Age 20, born in Tennessee, farmer.

Merriman, Jeremiah—Private.    Age 23, born in Arkansas, farmer.

Methvin, John W—Second Lieutenant.    Age 34, born in Alabama, clerk.

Miller, Francis Marion—Private.    Age 19, born in Alabama, farmer.

Moreland, William J—Private.    Age 21, born in Alabama, farmer.

Mounce, Ambrose—Private.    Age 21, born in Illinois, farmer.

Northcutt, William J—Private.    Age 22, born in Tennessee, farmer.

Ott, William—Private.    Age 24, born in Indiana, farmer.

Patterson, John C—Third Sergeant.    Age 36, born in Mississippi, grocer.

Pomeroy, Samuel W—Private.  Age 22, born in Tennessee, farmer; wounded at Wilson’s Creek.

Porter, Joseph M—Private.    Age 22, born in Tennessee, farmer.

Ramsden, Samuel—Private.    Age 28, born in England, engineer.

Rea, John C—Private.    Age 23, born in Illinois, carpenter; wounded at Wilson’s Creek.

Rea, Trammell Marion—Private.    Age 21, born in Illinois, farmer.

Roberts, John W—Private.    Age 22, born in Tennessee, farmer.

Roberts, Zephaniah—Private.    Age 19, born in Tennessee, farmer.

Rose, John Jr—Private.    Age 19, born in Arkansas, farmer.

Rowland, Andrew Jackson—Private.    Age 26, born in Indiana, farmer.

Rowland, Hiram E—Private.    Age 19, born in Indiana, farmer.

Rowland, Preston—Private.    Age 33, born in Indiana, farmer.

Smith, Washington L—Private.    Age 18, born in Indiana, farmer.

Tate, Joseph—Private.    Age 22, born in Tennessee, farmer.

Tate, Robert W—Private.    Age 18, born in North Carolina, farmer; wounded at Wilson’s Creek.

Treat, Edwin C—Private.    Age 19, born in Arkansas, farmer.

Treat, James M—Private.    Age 17, born in Indiana, farmer.

Treat, William M—Private.    Age 21, born in Missouri, farmer.

Tyler, James—Private.    Age 27, born in Arkansas, farmer.

Vinson, David T—Private.    Age 24, born in South Carolina, farmer.

Webster, James N—Private.    Age 32, born in North Carolina, farmer.

White, Daniel—Private.    Age 37, born in Tennessee, farmer.

White, George Washington—Private.    Age 21, born in Tennessee, farmer.

Wickle, Jarret B—Private.    Age 20, born in Georgia, farmer.

Wiggins, Seborn L—Third Lieutenant.    Age 31, born in Georgia, carpenter.

Williams, George M—Fourth Corporal.    Age 28, born in Alabama, farmer.

Williams, James W—First Corporal.    Age 31, born in Arkansas, farmer.

Winnett, John M—Private.    Age 22, born in Tennessee, farmer.

Young, Allen A—Private.    Age 20, born in Tennessee, farmer.

Young, Thomas F—Private.    Age 22, born in Tennessee, farmer.

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