Little River County -- History Articles
- 1. "Water
Bound in Arkansas: Part I" by H. M. McIver in Arkansas Historical
Quarterly 14 (Summer 1955): 134-60.
- Reminiscences of an early settler in Rocky Comfort from
1880-1912 who tells stories of many persons and families of the area.
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- 2. "Water
Bound in Arkansas: Part II," by H. M. McIver in Arkansas Historical
Quarterly 14 (Autumn 1955): 225-51.
- Continuation of reminiscences of an early settler in
Rocky Comfort from 1880-1912 who tell stories of many persons and families
of the area.
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- 3. "Reminiscences
of an Arkansas Pioneer as Recorded in 1890," edited by H.M. McIver
in Arkansas Historical Quarterly 17 (Spring 1958): 56-67.
- Oral history from Clark Ward, an early settler of Rocky
Comfort circa the1820s and later a Confederate soldier at the Battle of
Shiloh.
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- 4. "Clayton's
Militia in Sevier and Howard Counties," by Virginia Buxton in
Arkansas Historical Quarterly 20 (Winter 1961): 344-50.
- Two letters published in 1890 from local citizens, opponents
of Reconstruction and Governor Clayton Powell's declaration of martial
law in 1868 in southwest Arkansas.
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- 5. "'A
Dear Little Job:' Second Lieutenant Hiram F. Willis, Freedman's Bureau
Agent in Southwestern Arkansas, 1866-1868," by William L. Richter
in Arkansas Historical Quarterly 50 (Summer 1994): 158-200.
- A thorough account of the work of Willis's effort to
assist newly freed African Americans after the Civil War.
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- 6. "Major
Josiah H. Demby's History of Catterson's Militia," edited by Ted
R. Worley in Arkansas Historical Quarterly 16(Summer 1957): 203-11.
- An account by a leader of Catterson's force that suppressed
the Ku Klux Klan in southwest Arkansas in 1868, partly in response to the
murder of Freedman Bureau agent Hiram F. Willis. (See article above.)
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