Archive for the Tag 'William Jackson Smart'

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A Widower’s Legacy

William Smart met adversity head-on, both as a soldier and as a family man.   Arkansas seceeded from the United States on May 6, 1861.  Most of her young men joined rebel units, but Union loyalists eventually fielded eleven infantry and four cavalry regiments, along with two artillery batteries. One of the latter, the First Arkansas Light Artillery, was raised in Fayetteville in the spring […]