Many Thanks to Lou Ann Lunsford for being kind enough to share these newspaper articles with us here in Arkansas. Lou Ann really did a splendid job with these articles so we cvould reproduce them here...

SALINE TERRITORY, AR. 1864
Copied from a Special Edition of "THE MERRY GREEN PRESS"


 

Federal Forces at Poison Spring:
1st Kansas Colored Infantry
Major R. G. Ward
18th Iowa Infantry
Captain W. M. Duncan
2nd Kansas Cavalry -
Lieutenant B. B. Mitchell
Lieutenant E. Ross
6th Kansas Cavalry
Lieutenant R. L. Phillips
Lieutenant R. Henderson
Lieutenant A. J. Walker
14th Kansas Cavalry
Lieutenant J. Utt
Lieutenant W. C. Smith
2nd Battery, Indiana Light Artillery Lieutenant W. W. Haines


 

Confederate Officers at Poison Spring:
Brigadier Generals:
Samuel B. Maxey, William L. Cabell, John S. Marmaduke
Majors:
E. L. Murtrey - J. T. Poe, - J. A. Carroll - M. Looscan
Captains: W. M. Hughey - O. B. Tebbs - J. H. Cobb - S. S. Harris
Colonels :
J. C. Monroe - T. J. Morgan - A. Gordon - J. F. Hill - W.H. Trader - T. M. Gunter - William A. Crawford - J. C. Wright - Charles DeMorse - N. W. Battle - Tandy Walker - J. Riley S. W. Folsom - Colton Greene - L. A. Campbel - W. J. Preston

PAGE ONE

Article: UNSCRUPULOUS PLUNDER & LOSSES REPORTED AT POISON SPRING
DESTRUCTION OF DRAKE'S COMMAND AT MARKS' MILLS
Article: DESTRUCTION OF DRAKE'S COMMAND AT MARKS' MILLS
Article: SAVAGERY & CELEBRATION AT MARKS' MILLS
Article: A MIRROR FROM THE HOMER

PAGE TWO

Article: THE RED RIVER EXPEDITION,
Full Detail of Great Battle At Jenkins' Ferry.
A Summary of Events From Recent Dispatches

PAGE THREE

Article: BLACK TROOPS OUTDUEL CONFEDERATES
Article: THE USE OF ARTILLERY DURING THE BATTLE

PAGE FOUR
Article: BATTLE LOSSES AT JENKINS' FERRY, THE NUMBER COUNTED

PAGE FIVE
Article: IOWA CASUALTIES REPORTED -
The 33rd Iowa - A through K

PAGE SIX

Article: PONTOON BRIDGE DESTROYED
Article: DESTRUCTION OF WAGONS
Article: CARR'S RIDE
Article: ELLIOTT'S REPORT

PAGE SEVEN

SALINE TERRITORY, AR 1864 - OBITUARIES
DEATH OF GENERAL GRINSTEAD
DEATH OF GENERAL RANDAL
SON OF DISTINGUISHED ARKANSAN DIES OF WOUNDS
TWO DEATHS REPORTED
MR. CHERRY'S DEATH

PAGE EIGHT

SALINE TERRITORY, AR 1864 - GALLANTRY NOTED
 

PAGE NINE
Article: CONFEDERATE ROLL OF HONOR
FOR CONSPICUOUS COURAGE GOOD CONDUCT
Article: 27TH WISCONSIN CASUALTY REPORT

PAGE TEN
SALINE TERRITORY, AR 1864 - DEATH NOTICE & COMMENTS
Article: DEATH OF LIEUT. HUGH MC COLLUM
Article: VETERAN'S COMMENTS
FEDERAL COMMENTS
 

PAGE ELEVEN
Article: AN EASY WAY TO FIGHT A BATTLE
Article: CONFEDERATE ATTEMPT FLEECED BY YANKS
Article: INFANT CHILD
Article: CAPTURE OF CONFEDERATE COLORS

PAGE TWELVE
Article: GENERAL STEELE REMEMBERED FOR DODD INCIDENT
Article: COMMENTS CONCERNING E. KIRBY SMITH & CONFEDERATE COMMANDERS
Article: CRITICISM OF GENERAL FAGAN
Article: COUNTY JUDGE WITH FAGAN
 

PAGE THIRTEEN

Article: BATTLEFIELD HOSPITALS
Article: CONFEDERATE PRIVATE DESCRIBES HOSPITAL EXPERIENCE
Article: AN ENCOUNTER WITH FEDERALS
Article: THE FEDERAL COMMANDER

PAGE FOURTEEN
Article: HUMORUS
Article: RATIONS
Article: THE MULE BRIGADE
Article: SAVED BY A BOY AND A MULE
Article: QUARTERMASTER'S REPORT OF FEDERAL PROPERTY LOSSES

PAGE FIFTEEN
Article: SCOUTING CREWS ACTIVE HERE
Article: #1-STEELE'S REPORT TO GENERAL W. H. HALLECK, CHIEF OF STAFF

PAGE SIXTEEN
Article: #2-STEELE'S REPORT TO GENERAL W. H. HALLECK, CHIEF OF STAFF
Article: #3-STEELE'S REPORT TO GENERAL W. H. HALLECK, CHIEF OF STAFF
 

PAGE SEVENTEEN
Article: A SOLDIER'S FAREWELL TO HIS LOVE
by General H. L. Grinstead (Killed at Jenkins' Ferry)
Article: PINE BLUFF OCCUPIED BY FEDERALS
Article: POST OF PINE BLUFF
Article: SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS
 

PAGE EIGHTEEN
Article: LETTER TO THE TROOPS OF THE VII ARMY CORPS
by F. Steele, Major-General Commanding
Article: Untitled
Article: TO THE CHILDREN OF THE CONFEDERACY
Article: ALBERT PIKE'S DIXIE
CONFEDERATE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO MEET
 

PAGE NINETEEN
Article: NEWS AND NOTES
Article: POSTAL NEWS
 

PAGE TWENTY
ARTICLE: FROM THE EDITOR
WORDS FROM LOU ANN LUNSFORD
AND A FEW FROM JERI AND EDWARD G. GERDES
 

Grant County Museum in Sheridan, Arkansas printed in observance of the 125th Anniversary of the Civil War Battle of Jenkins' Ferry that was fought April 29-30th, 1864 in what was then Hot Springs and Saline County Territory...later incorporated into Grant County in 1869.

The above information may be used for non-commercial historical and genealogical purposes only and with the consent of the page owner may be copied for the same purposes so long as this notice remains a part of the copied material. EDWARD G. GERDES

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Jeri Helms Fultz

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