Arkansas Democrat - Arkansas Rallies to the

Call of the Civil War

South Secedes and Four Years of Strife and Misery are Launched…Much Blood Spilled on State’s Soil 

•  Separation of the North & South

•  The South Secedes

•  The Fatal Stroke

•  Votes Against Secession

•  Decision is Reversed

•  Arkansas Joins Confederacy

•  Third of Wealth in Slaves

•  Street Lighting Opposed

•  Excitement of the Sixties

•  War Spirits High

•  Half of Voters Go to War

•  Arkansas in Union Army

•  Indians in the Southern Army

•  Arkansas' First Battle

•  War Enters Arkansas

•  First Crop Control

•  Battle of Pea Ridge

•  Little Rock Menaced

•  Women Make Sacrifices

•  March on Little Rock

•  Little Rock Surrenders

•  Hanged on School Grounds

•  Arkansas Carries On

•  Two State Governments

•  Valiant Soldiers Come Home

•  Dark Times Ahead