The Green Forest tribune., 1912-05-31
HISTORY OF
 CARROLL COUNTY
Compiled by the Goodspeed Publish ing Go. and Was First Published
 in the Year 1889.
MILITARY RECORD.

I 1862, while the Army of the South
 west" was lying at Cross Timbets,
 Mo-, M La Rue Harrison, of the
 Thirty sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry,
 was given authority to recruit a com
 pany for the Sixth Missouri Cavalry, and proposed to enlist citizens of Ark ansas, many of whom had escaped the Confederate conscription and fled into
 Missouri, The facility with which this was accomplished prompted the or
 ganization of the First Regiment Ark ansas Cavalry Volunteers, which was effected August ', 1862. Company G ] of this regiment was made gp almost entirely of Carroll county man. Rowan F: M. Mack was captaini Joshua $. i Dudley, first lieutenant. Eira,- e
 shahan, Of Carroll co''- .-'.. .--- 9'
 ''a2''i.Se'@, ~eant. Nearly all the men
 were enlisted in July and August, 1862. Company K, Theodore Youngblood
 captain, pr. r. Youngblood, first
 lieutenant, was also largely made up of
 Carroll county men. The regiment
 constituted the advance guard of Gen.
 Schofield's s command, the Army of the
 Frontier, during the campaign of 1862.
 It was stationed for a time at Elk Horn
 Tavern and Gassville, under Lieut.. Col.
 A. W. Bishop. Col, Harrison assumed
 command December 5, and under him
 the regiment participated in the battle
 ot Prairie Grove, January 8, 1863, a
 detachment under Lieuts. Thompson and Vaughan participated in the de- ! feat of Marmaduke at Springfield; and
 later Tn the same month another de-
 taohment was actively engaged in the
 vicinity of Van Buren, The regiment.
 with others, constituted the post of
 Fayetteville, and successfully with
 stood an attack from the Confederate
 Gen. Cabell April IS, 1863. October 3, 1864, similar attack from greatly
 superior numbers was also repelled.
 Throughout the remainder of the war
 tta regiment was engaged in suppress
 ing the guerrilla bands that infested
 the northwestern part of the state. It , was mustered out August g, 1865.
 The Second Arkansas Cavalry. 4a Y. s..-iil -iil were many Carroll ootnty men, was
 originally organized as the First Ark , an&aa Mounted Rangers, and was
 formed at Helena by Col w. James Morgan, in 1862. In August, 1863, the , regiment not having yet been filled. 1t was transferred to Col. John [. Phelps.
 rendezvoused at Springfield and Cass- l vile, 'reeluitrng with such energy anu success that. on the 18th of March, 1864, he was mustered in as colonel,
 twelve full companies having been ? formed. The regiment was after ward in active service in Mississippi and Tennessee. It was mustered out Au- t gust 20, 1865.
 In various Missouri regiments and ;, several regiments of Arkansas infantry t Carroll county was also represented. } It is Aot possible, however, to go into detail in this matter.
 3 Operations in the county first ] armed force that appeared in Carroll
 county was that of Brig. Gen. Me l Bride, Confederate, en royte from t Batesville to Elm Springs, Benton \ county, with his command numherino 4,@o CT 5000 men.. Passing through ; In June' lSl, lSfll they encamped for the nig@s-it at Green Forest, Their progress
 was not marked by any violence. Ali
 ter the battle of Wilson's Creek numer- oas small bodies passed through the ' county frequently.
 r A strong Federal force was thrown
 into Southwestern Missouri in the r spring of 1862, and, aware that de- l cisive battle was approaching, an effort was made to prevent the enemy from f concentrating his forces, and to divert a his attention from the actual point ot l. attack. Amovement of this character
 executed by Col. c. A. Ellis, IS thus t described by him in reporting to his : superior officer;
 q Headquarters First Missouri Cavalry Camp on Sugar Creek, Ark, Marcl s 9, 1862.
 | General: In obedience to your orde ot the End ins+ +.ant, to proceed to heets
 vile and se' Id forward a commissar! train report ed to be there, and then t
 make rec. .onnaissance Of the countr. S east of the position occupied by ou ? forces, marched with 140 men on tn t mornin of the 3rd, accompanied b, 0 Col. r. ease, of your staff, to heetsville and forward the train as directed. e thf n proceeded east to the Roarin! f F liver, and north eight miles northeas
 CT Cassville, Mo-, and finding no ap
 (pearance of the enemy, bivouacked fo d the night. At daylight of the morning Id of the 4th l again moved forward i
 the direction of Morris Mill, on tn
 White River, where a camp of tn le rebels was reported to be in tha at vicinity. l reached the mills about le D. m. Finding no enemy there, l a e. once moved forward in the direction c
 Berryville, over the most broken coun try it is possible to conceive, crossin oI White River six times in travelin h. eight miles. At 10 p. m, havin at found forage for our horses, 1 campe
 for the night, and again, at dayHgf - of the 5th, moved forward on the roa
 to Berryville When about two miles
 1 arrested two men of suspicious al
 pearance, and from them obtained il