Paragould soliphone., 1921-10-31
DEATH CLAIMS GENERAL I'M.
 \. HAYNES
Confederate Officer and Or ganizer of Arkansas Ma tional Guard Dies at Home in Little Rock.

Little Rock, Oct. 2S.-After a lin- gering illness of nearly II years, Gen. William H. Haynes, aged S4, ing General Haynes was Con- federate veteran, founder of the Arkansas National Guard and retir- ed from the guard with the rank of major general.
 He is survived by his wife. Flu neral services were held at 3 o'clock this afternoon from the residence of la sistsr-in-law, Mrs. C.. F. Ferguson, 1515 Spring street, in charge of the Revs. w. R. Harrison, P. c. Flet- cher and John B. Lowery Burial National cemetery, Company H, An ti-Aircraft Machine Gun Company of Little Rock, commanded by Capt. Harry Smith, who had charge of ceremonies at the grave.
 General Haynes entered the ser vice of the Confederacy as a private at the beginning of the Civil war, and was discharged as a colonel at it's close. He was born in Frank lin county, Va, in 1887, a son of William Scott and Louisa (Williams) Haynes. In his early childhood the family removed to Nashville, Tenn, and he was practically adopted into ,the home of Gen. Andrew Jackson lat the Hermitage. He was educated in New Orleans, and at the out break of the Civil war he enlisted as private in the Fifteenth Missis- sippi Infantry. Soon afterward he was promoted and attached to the staff of Gen. Charles Clarke, serv- ing in Virginia. Later he was at tached to the Western Army as a member of the Staff of Maj. Gen Leonidas Polk.
 General Haynes executed the last order of Gen. Albert Sidney John ston. Just before General Johnston's death at the battle of Shiloh he said: Haynes, tell General Polk to bring up Breckenridge's reserves and push them forward General Haynes was brevetted colonel for gallantry in action at Shiloh, and was seriously wounded while carry ing out General Johnston's last or der.
 He was on the staff of Gen. John G. Breckenridge in the Baton Rouge campaign, and later was transferred to the Mississippi department under Gen. Theophilus Holmes, who assigned him to duty at Fort Smith, Ark. Driven out by General Curtis |of the United States army, General Haynes proceeded to Little Rock, where he remained under federal oc- cupancy of the city in 1863. Ac- cording to the records of the Con federate army, General Haynes was the last Confederate officer to sur render and to be paroled He report ed for surrender 60 days after his commanding officer, Gen. Kirby Smith, had surrendered with his forces.
 In 1872 General Haynes went to Lee county, where he engaged in cotton planting. Later he entered business in Memphis and was a con spicuous figure during the yellow fever epidemic. It was at his sug- gestion that the isolation tent camp was constructed, which went far toward stopping the spread of the disease. General Haynes came to Little Rock in the early '7O's, all though his residence was not off cially removed here until 1884.
 He organized the Arkansas Ma tional Guard in 1901, became adju- tant general Of the state, and al guard officer with the rank of major general. As adjutant general hel succeeded Col, M. L. Davis of Dar- danelle. He retired from the guard in 1907. In recognition of his ser vices Gov. George w. Donaghey nam ed the first guard encampment grounds Camp w. H. Haynes.
 General Haynes was twice mar ried, first to Miss Minnie Spring of Fort Smith, who died in 1883, and later to the widow of Robert Doug las Lee of Red Fork, Ark. Of the first marriage, one son was born, William S. Haynes of St. Louis, who died in 1907, leaving two sons, Jesse w. and William s. Jr. Pershing Welcomes
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