![]() His unit saw the remainder of its service in Mississippi. His unit then marched on to Des Arc in Prairie County where it boarded a steamboat, Sovereign, landing in Memphis on 11 April 1862. He was at the Battle of Pea Ridge on 6th and 7th of March 1862. His unit saw combat at Wilson’s Creek in Missouri on 10 August 1861 and later this unit disbanded and became part of the regular Confederate Army and he served with Company H of the 15th Arkansas Infantry, (McRae’s/Hobb’s) with the eventual rank of 3rd Lt. He enlisted early on with the 3rd Regiment, 1st Corps Army of Arkansas under the command of Colonel John R. came from a Washington County, Arkansas, family living in the Cane Hill area. Thomas was buried in the Confederate Cemetery in Fayetteville and Susan was buried beside her parents and two siblings in the Mount Comfort Cemetery.ĭAVIS, James ( – 19 Apr 19 1863) Died in the Battle of FayettevilleĮDWARDS, George with Tuck Smith’s Company From about 1892 until her death on February 2, 1912, Susan received a pension from the state of Arkansas based on Thomas’s service to the Confederacy. Barnett as head of the household in Elm Springs Township, likely on the same farm that included her two daughters as well as Nancy’s husband John Taylor. John Mount served with the Confederacy also, but in 1881 he was assassinated on June 2, 1881, while serving as a deputy sheriff of Washington County. ![]() Later, her brother, John Isham Mount and his family lived with Susan and daughters on the farm Thomas had operated before the war. Thomas’s widow and daughters lived with his parents for a time. He was killed at the Battle of Prairie Grove on December 7, 1862. The Barnetts had two daughters Tennessee was born in 1860 and Nancy was born in 1862.Thomas volunteered for Confederate service in Company A, 34th Regiment of the Arkansas Volunteer Infantry in August of 1862. Mount and they farmed a plot of land a half mile east of his parents’ farm. On December 18, 1859, Thomas married Susan E. The family settled on Little Wild Cat Creek near present day Steele and tilled one of the best creek bottom farms in Northwest Arkansas. As a boy he emigrated with his parents, Isaac and Susan Hern Barnett and siblings George W., John, Catherine, and Isaac P. Barnett was born November 29, 1839, in Bedford County, Tennessee. Inf.Īccording to family history, Thomas L. Contact the Southern Memorial AssociationīARNETT, Thomas L (1839-1862) Co. ![]() Present day officers are working on obtaining military and genealogy records for these soldiers.We are interested in any corrections or information regarding these men. Other names have been added which were listed in a history book about the Southern Memorial Association compiled by SMA member Rowena Gallaway in 1956, as well as newspaper obituaries and ongoing research. The names of the Confederate soldiers recorded below have been compiled from a list published in the Fayetteville Democrat in 1874 by the ladies of the Southern Memorial Association. Soldiers at Rest in the Confederate Cemetery
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