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Song of the 1st Arkansas

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Although not present at the battle of Milliken’s Bend on June 7, 1863, the 1st Arkansas Infantry, African Descent, was posted nearby, just upriver a ways at Goodrich’s Landing. Like all the other black Union regiments forming at the time more »

Parsons vs. 1st Arkansas at the Mound

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Col. William H. Parsons was already known as a hard-riding cavalryman by the time his troopers rode into northeast Louisiana in late June, 1863.  On June 29, he discovered two companies of the Union 1st Arkansas Infantry, African Descent, fortified more »