Elkhorn Tavern 1860

Elkhorn Tavern 1860
Author: Patrick L. McCoy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Mount Vernon (Benton County, Ark. : Township)
ISBN: 9780976232902

Limited First Edition Hardback - 100This publication is a must for any Arkansas family history researcher or history buff! Over three years and 1,000's of hours of research have gone into this book. It contains a complete transcription of the 1860 census of Mount Vernon & Sugar Creek townships near the battlefield at Elkhorn Tavern, a significant conflict and early turning point in the Civil War west of the Mississippi River. Each of the 172 households has been carefully researched with name transcriptions with accepted surname spellings. Also included, when known, are the maiden names of wives, former wives, former married names of spouses for widowed or remarried women, explanation of relationships in single & multiple family households and family locations in the 1850 census. This work is more than a census transcription, Elkhorn Tavern, 1860 is also a storybook of the families who lived and received their mail at Pea Ridge, Arkansas that summer before the Civil War began. Families hailed from the states of North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois and Mississippi to name a few. The contents of this book are the product of careful records examination, adhering to practiced genealogical methodologies. Gleaned from all available historical records and public and private documents, it is a rich look at the lives of those who were about to experience war at their back door. Research aides included but were not limited to available Arkansas and other state and federal Civil War era microfilm records, subsequent and previous Federal Census Images (1840-1920), marriage records, land records, published indexes, diaries, newspaper articles, pension applications, obituaries, reunion photographs, maps and family histories. *** BONUS *** Benton County, AR - 1859 Tax ListIncluded in the Appendix is a complete name transcription of the 1859 Benton County, AR Tax List, some 1470 individuals.

The History of Elkhorn Tavern

The History of Elkhorn Tavern
Author: John W. Bond
Publisher:
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2000
Genre: Pea Ridge, Battle of, Ark., 1862
ISBN: 9781888213546

When Nationl Park Service Historian John Bond began his research on Elkhorn Tavern in 1960, the task must have seemed daunting. The historian's worst nightmare, shortage of source material, was all too apparent.

Big Mountain to Washburn Prairie 1860

Big Mountain to Washburn Prairie 1860
Author: Sharolyn McCoy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Barry County (Mo.)
ISBN: 9780976232919

The companion book to Elkhorn Tavern, 1860 The Pea Ridge Community, Mountain completes the research on these two near and related communities. Written in the same format and tenor as Elkhorn Tavern, our presentation was taken from a transcription of the 8th Federal Census of 1860 and includes Mountain Township, Shells Mills and Looniesville, P. O., located in the southeastern corner of McDonald County, MO, and to its east Sugar Creek Township, Washburn Prairie & Keetsville P.O., Barry County, MO, both along the Arkansas border containing at census time a total enumeration of 337 households comprised of some 2,081 souls.

Worthy of the Cause for Which They Fight

Worthy of the Cause for Which They Fight
Author: Daniel Harris Reynolds
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1557289719

Robert Patrick Bender is a history instructor at Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell. He is the author of Like Grass Before the Scythe: The Life and Death of Sgt. William Remmel, 121st New York Infantry.

Elkhorn Tavern

Elkhorn Tavern
Author: Douglas C. Jones
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2010-11-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101466073

“Elkhorn Tavern has the beauty of Shane and the elegiac dignity of Red River without the false glamour or sentimentality of those classic Western films... Mr. Jones is at home among the ridges and hardwoods of a frontier valley... He holds us still and compels us to notice what we live in.”—The New York Times Book Review From Douglas C. Jones, an author the Los Angeles Times called "a superb storyteller and authentic chronicler of the American West," comes a classic Civil War novel, long out of print but considered one of the great titles of the genre. With her husband gone east to fight for the Confederate Army, Ora Hasford is left alone to tend to her Arkansas farm and protect her two teenage children, Calpurnia and Roman. But only a short distance away, in the shadow of Pea Ridge, a storm is gathering. In a clash to decide control over the western front, two opposing armies prepare for a brutal, inevitable battle. Beset by soldiers, bushwhackers, and jayhawkers, the Hasfords' home stands unprotected in what will soon be one of the worst battlegrounds in the West.

Rogers

Rogers
Author: Marilyn Harris Collins
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738523736

The engine's piercing whistle blast and the rhythmic beat of metal wheel upon metal rail in 1881 were the recognizable sounds of progress and prosperity for many wishing to push west across the American expanse. The advent of the railroad in the nineteenth century gave birth to hundreds of communities, and Rogers was one such town created by the extension of this iron network across a changing national landscape. Set upon the Ozark Plateau, Rogers evolved from a hunting ground of the Osage Indians into a bustling railroad stop, attracting scores of new people and industry into the northwest corner of Arkansas. With over 100 black-and-white illustrations, Rogers: The Town the Frisco Built documents the development of the community from its Native American roots to the present day and remembers the many people and events that shaped the town's unique identity and heritage. Exploring the downtown streets, residences, and businesses of yesteryear, readers will meet men like Charles Warrington Rogers, the general manager of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad and the town's namesake; W.H. "Coin" Harvey, a Liberty Party 1932 Presidential candidate and somewhat eccentric, local entrepreneur; and local resident Betty Blake, who was the wife and biographer of humorist and political satirist Will Rogers. Their contributions, combined with other stories of celebrated families and distinguished citizens, bring to life many elements of Rogers' remarkable history: a world of saloons, one-room schoolhouses, churches, resorts, apple orchards, chicken farms, the Daisy Manufacturing Plant, and Wal-Mart.

The War for a Nation

The War for a Nation
Author: Susan-Mary Grant
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2014-09-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135862427

The War for a Nation provides a brief introduction to the American Civil War from the perspective of military personnel and civilians who participated in the conflict. Susan-Mary Grant brings the war, its many battles, and those who fought them – male and female, black and white – to the center of a riveting narrative that is accessible to general readers and students of American history. The War for a Nation explains, in a clear narrative structure, the war's origins, its battles, the expansion of the Union, the struggle for emancipation, and the following saga of Reconstruction. By drawing its examples from primary source documents, first-hand accounts, and scholarly research, The War for a Nation introduces readers to the human-interest aspects as well as the historiographical debates surrounding what was the most destructive war ever fought on American soil.

A Southern Community in Crisis

A Southern Community in Crisis
Author: Randolph B. Campbell
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2016-11-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 162511043X

Historians have published countless studies of the American Civil War from 1861 to 1865 and the era of Reconstruction that followed those four years of brutally destructive conflict. Most of these works focus on events and developments at the national or state level, explaining and analyzing the causes of disunion, the course of the war, and the bitter disputes that arose during restoration of the Union. Much less attention has been given to studying how ordinary people experienced the years from 1861 to 1876. What did secession, civil war, emancipation, victory for the United States, and Reconstruction mean at the local level in Texas? Exactly how much change—economic, social, and political—did the era bring to the focus of the study, Harrison County: a cotton-growing, planter-dominated community with the largest slave population of any county in the state? Providing an answer to that question is the basic purpose of A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850–1880. First published by the Texas State Historical Association in 1983, the book is now available in paperback, with a foreword by Andrew J. Torget, one of the Lone Star State’s top young historians.

The American Civil War

The American Civil War
Author: Peter J. Parish
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 806
Release: 2020-12-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 100028218X

Originally published in 1975, this assessment of the American Civil War is a broad treatment of the war as a major historical event, set in the context of a detailed picture of two governments, economies and societies at war. It discusses many controversial topics - the uncertainty and hesitation that surrounded the origins of the war, for example, its economic impact, the Radicals and their relationship with Lincoln and reconstruction as a wartime issue. It offers acute analysis of Lincoln’s political skills, and an evaluation of emancipation and Lincoln’s approach to it; the problems and performance of the opposition during the war; international reactions; an assessment of some of the leading generals like McClellan and Lee and the impact of the war on both Southern and Northern society.