During the first year of the War Between the States, Arkansas had
been on the sidelines as the main actions had taken place in
Virginia, Missouri and Kentucky. This was to change as the Federals
gained control of Missouri and set their eyes on control of the
lower Mississippi River toward the close of 1861. In these
selections from period newspapers are both Confederate and Yankee
Reports on the Invasion of Arkansas by the Union Army of the
South-West under General Samuel R. Curtis in early 1862. Reports on
the battle of Elkhorn Tavern, the occupation of parts of northern
Arkansas and the attempts to take Little Rock by the Yankee army,
the resistance to the invaders by the people of the State, and
Curtis retreat to Helena as his army nearly starves, are here seen
through the eyes of witnesses to the events. But, we have to be
careful when using these reports, as demonstrated by this article
from the July 11th, 1862 edition of the Richmond, Va. Daily
Dispatch, sometimes the reports and editorials that purport to be
reprints from newspapers published by the opposing side may not be
all they seem: Yankee Trick. A soldier from Georgia picked up on
the battlefield, a Yankee "Richmond Dispatch," which had been
dropped by some dead Yankee. We have not yet seen it, but persons
who have, say it is a cari(?)elry. It is exactly like this paper.
The size, paper, advertisements and all are precisely the same. The
only difference is in the editorials. The Yankee concern is full of
desponding and despairing editorials, which pronounce our cause
desperate and say that McClellan is obliged to take the city. These
counterfeits are no doubt sent North, and used in keeping up the
popular delusion there. --Possibly, other Southern papers may be
counterfeited too. Was there ever a nation so thoroughly base?
Newspaper reports are not the best of primary sources. Egos,
partisanship and hatred can colour the stories, but a true sense of
the events as they happened can be gained from these narratives.
General
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