Arkansas Civil War Chronicles
- 1860
January 21, 1860 - Arkansas Gazette Centennial Edition
At Benton, the Eighteenth Regiment of the Arkansas
militia elected James F. Fagan, Colonel.
February 4, 1860 - Arkansas Gazette Centennial Edition
At a meeting of the Thirteenth Regiment of the
state militia at Little Rock Edmund Burgevin was elected Colonel.
April 30, 1860
An Opposition Convention of Democrats was held at
Helena, composed mostly of members of the sate convention of April 2 at
Little Rock who were opposed to the candidacy of Richard H. Johnson for
governor. This Helena Convention passed resolutions declaring that
its members were conservatives, were opposed to secession and that they
favored John Bell and Edward Everett for president and vice president.
Thomas Hubbard, judge of the Sixth Circuit was nominated for governor.
November 20, 1860
The United States Troops stationed at the Little
Rock Arsenal were reinforced by a unit of artillery manned by 60 men.
Many believed this was for the purpose of defending the arsenal against
attack and capture in the event of secession. (The Little Rock Arsenal
was in command of Captain James Totten, a native of Pennsylvania and a
graduate of West Point, 1837.)December 22, 1860 - Arkansas Gazette - Volume 42 - Number 25
Meeting
in Saline county – A meeting of the citizens of Saline county will be
held in the town of Benton, on the first Monday in January next, for the
purpose of giving an expression of their sentiments on the present
political affairs of the country. The citizens of the different
townships are respectfully invited, and earnestly requested to attend.
Thos. Pack
M.A. Kenady
A.H. Meek
Bedford Morris
John C. Bennett
M.J. Henderson
Jno. A.P. Bingham
J.W. Adams
Geo. M. Holt
A. Hockersmith
D.W. Dodd
M.S. Miller
John W. Shoppach
George J. Cloud
A.R. Hockersmith
A.M. Dodd
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The young men of this city favorably disposed
toward a Military organization which may do the “State some service,”
have formed under the title of the “Pulaski Artillery,” and have elected
Rob’t C. Newton, Captain; Wm. E. Woodruff, Jr., 1st Lieut.; L.B. Brown,
2d. Lieut. And Wm. H. Causin, 3d Lieut. The organization is most
perfect, and the officers, from our knowledge of the skill and capacity
which they bring to the positions they occupy, cannot fail to render the
“Artillery,” in the shortest possible time, an honor to the city and
State and reflect credit upon those who aided in its inception, and
whose labors have done so much toward placing in our midst a Military
Company of so useful a character, and one too which promises to be so
efficient. They meet to-night at their Armory over the Market House,
when business of importance will be brought before the Company.
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