Crawford County - from A Guide-Index to the Official Records Of The Union And Confederate Armies

Skedaddle
Civil War Arkansas

A Guide-Index to the Official Records Of The Union And Confederate Armies

Volume V, Trans-Mississippi And Pacific Coast Theaters of Operations 1861-65
Section M--Comprehensive Index Of Recognized Military Operations--ARKANSAS

Crawford County, not named in atlas 159:A-10; 160:H-10 (vicinity of Van Buren); textual compilation 32:Sk679

-----skirmish in, Nov. 25, 1863, Union troops engaged per battle lists (a) (b) 2d Ark. Cav. NOTE: This entry was based on the corresponding entry in battle list (a), which, in turn, was derived from a record of events on a muster roll of Co. C, 2d Ark. Cav. The latter indicates that "in Crawford County, Arks. Privt. Lindsley R. Lee was wounded & his horse was killed, his arms & equipment being taken by the enemy on the 25th of November 1863."

-----skirmish in, Aug. 11, 1864, Union troops engaged per battle lists (b) 2d Kans. Cav., Cos. F. H (2 men killed) (a) same regt. NOTE: This entry was based on the corresponding entry in battle list (a), which, in turn, was derived from casualty notations on muster rolls and returns of the 2d Kans. Cav. A casualty notation on a muster roll of Co. F states that Pvt. George Potter was killed on Aug. 11, 1864, while escorting a train from Fort Smith to Fayetteville

-----skirmish in, Oct. 19, 1864,. Union troops engaged per battle lists (b) 1st Ark. Cav., Co. G (1 man killed) (a) same regt. NOTE: A muster-out roll of Co. G, 1st Ark. Cav., shows a Pvt. Henry E. Weaver killed in action in Crawford County on Oct. 19, 1864. Another muster roll of the same co. lists the place of death more specifically as "near Van Buren."

Mulberry Springs, [Mulberry?], not found in atlas (stated in a record of events on a Jan.-Feb. 1863 muster roll of Co. I, 10th Ill. Cav., to be "three miles above Ozark,”). NOTE: Mulberry Springs may well be synonymous with Mulberry, a village that appears in several published atlases as near Mulberry River on the Little Rock-Fort Smith Railroad about 15 miles W of Ozark at the Franklin-Crawford County line.

-----skirmish at, Jan. 26 [28 or 29], 1863, Union troops engaged "Jan. 26" per battle list (b) 10th Ill. Cav., Co. I (2men killed, 1 wounded) and "Jan. 28" [corrected from Jan. 26] per battle list (a) same regt. NOTE: This entry was based on the original uncorrected entry for Jan. 26 in battle list (a). The battle list entry was derived from a record of events on a Co. I muster roll, which, however, indicates Jan. 26 as the date of departure and not the date of the skirmish. The record of events states that "On the 26th of Jan. 1863, ten men of Comp. I, 10th Ill. Cav. left Fayetteville, Ark. Under the corn. of Capt. [Robert E.] Travis of the 1st Ark. Cav. and engaged the enemy at Mulberry Springs, Ark., three miles above Ozark, and in which engagement Eugene White and Osker, his brother was killed and James K. P. Williamson was wounded in the right shoulder and is now at Fayetteville, Ark." Casualty notations on the co. muster roll indicate the date of death as Dec. 28, but this information is almost certainly erroneous. Casualty sheets and correspondence in the compiled military service records of the two men contain the more plausible information that they were killed in action on Jan. 28 or 29.

Hit Counter hits since 09/25/2005; page created or modified 03/10/2008

Arkansas