TRUE DEMOCRAT, January 7, 1863, p.
1, c. 1
, is in our city.
He looks like a cool, determined man, and is good for a host of
abolitionists yet.
TRUE DEMOCRAT, January 14, 1863, p. 1, c. 1
[LITTLE ROCK]
ARKANSAS
TRUE DEMOCRAT, January 14, 1863, p. 1, c. 4
Among the many
dispatches by the grapevine line, to the Chattanooga Rebel, we
clip the following:
"A late dispatch from
Nashville, states that the Yankee
soldiers have abandoned the custom of combing their
heads—consequently vermin is on the increase in the Yankee camp.
An insect of doubtful name, and of unusually large size, was
discovered in that city the other day with
U. S. marked on its back and a
canteen swung around its neck."
[LITTLE ROCK]
ARKANSAS
TRUE DEMOCRAT, February 25, 1863, p. 1, c. 1
We have received the first number of "the War Times," published
at Arkadelphia,
W. A.
Trigue and N. P. Moor.
It is a neat patriotic sheet, is situated at a point when the
earliest news can be obtained by telegraph, and is offered at
$2.50 a year.
We have put it on our
exchange list and wish the proprietors success.
[LITTLE ROCK]
ARKANSAS
TRUE DEMOCRAT, February 25, 1863, p. 1, c. 3
During the month of January, a great many southern ladies driven
from
Baltimore,
Washington and other cities,
arrived in
Richmond.
They had to come by way of
Suffolk.
At that point they found they had to be searched, and the
person to examine their clothing was a vile old hag, who took
every opportunity of insulting them.
This old vixen is
Mrs.
Brown, the wife of old
John Brown,
who was hung in
Virginia.
Even in such small matters as the appointment of female
inspectors,
Lincoln
shows his malicious meanness.
[LITTLE ROCK]
ARKANSAS
TRUE DEMOCRAT, February 25, 1863, p. 1, c. 6
A Female Soldier—Among the strange, heroic and self-sacrificing
acts of woman in this struggle for our independence, we have
heard of none which exceeds the bravery displayed and hardships
endured by the subject of this notice,
Mrs.
Amy Clarke.
Mrs. Clark volunteered
with her husband as a private, fought through the battles of
Shiloh, where
Mr. Clark
was killed; she performing the rites of burial with her own
hands.
She then continued with
Bragg's army in
Kentucky, fighting in the ranks as a
common soldier, until she was twice wounded—once in the ankle
and then in the breast, when she fell a prisoner into the hands
of the Yankees.
Her sex was
discovered by the Federals, and she was regularly paroled as a
prisoner of war, but they did not permit her to return until she
had donned female apparel.
[LITTLE ROCK]
ARKANSAS TRUE DEMOCRAT, March 4, 1863,
p. 2, c. 3
The following is a recipe which answers every purpose in dyeing
copperas color:
Half pint vinegar, half pint syrup or molasses, three gallons
of water.
Put the above into an iron
pot with nails or other rusty iron, and let it stand twenty
days.
It is of no use to buy
copperas for dyeing, at one dollar per pound, when this will
answer every purpose.
[LITTLE ROCK]
ARKANSAS
TRUE DEMOCRAT, March 25, 1863, p. 2, c. 3-4
Summary:
Long list of deserters in
the Consolidated Regiment commanded by Col. O. P. Lyles, at Port
Hudson (14th, 18th and 23d)--$30 reward for each
[LITTLE ROCK]
ARKANSAS
TRUE DEMOCRAT, April 1, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
Summary:
List of
Arkansas
and
Texas dead at
Camp Douglas,
February 24-27
[LITTLE ROCK]
ARKANSAS
TRUE DEMOCRAT, April 8, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Summary:
The Fall of
Arkansas
Post—a new version of the affair—the surrender accomplished
through the treachery of a
Texas
soldier (someone in 24th
Texas)
[LITTLE ROCK]
ARKANSAS
TRUE DEMOCRAT, April 15, 1863, p. 1, c. 4-5
Summary:
A more complete account of
the drill competition of
Shelby's Brigade on March
12 at Batesville, including the girls on horseback
[LITTLE ROCK]
ARKANSAS
TRUE DEMOCRAT, May 13, 1863, p. 1, c. 3
The federals not content with destroying ploughs and hoes and
stealing provision in the northern part of this State, actually
broke up the spinning wheels, and cut up the side saddles.
[LITTLE ROCK]
ARKANSAS
TRUE DEMOCRAT, July 8, 1863, p. 1, c. 1
Suspension.—We shall be compelled, by want of paper, to suspend
the issues of the True Democrat for a short time.
Over two months since,
Mr. Yerkes
started for
Georgia for
paper.
He procured it and reached
Natchez on his return, but the protracted sieges of
Vicksburg and Port Hudson kept him on the
wrong side of the river.
It is possible that we may resume publication in a week or two;
it may be several weeks.
Of course
our subscribers will receive the same number of papers, the lost
time not being counted against them.
Our issue is so large, amounting to 10,000 a week, that it is
impossible to borrow or to purchase a sufficient quantity of
paper elsewhere than at the manufactories.
We have a small quantity of paper, not enough for a regular
issue, on which we will print bulletins of such interesting
dispatches as may be received.
[This comes from original research
by Vicki
Betts, Professional Librarian
Cataloging and Reference
The University
of Texas at
Tyler]
THE
OFFICERS
As
was feared, 
62,000 of his veteran troops and waged destructive war across 
The
first section concerns the battle of Dinwiddie Court House on March
31, 1865, the last significant Confederate victory and the prelude
to the battle of 
