COLUMNISTS Arkansas goes to war
Posted: August 16, 2009 at 3:06 a.m.
Arkansas was overwhelmingly rural at the advent of the Civil War. Indeed, 1860 was the first U.S. census in which Arkansas had enough urban population to be recorded. Little Rock, with 3,727 people, was the closest thing Arkansas had to a city. Other larger towns were Camden with 2,219, Helena having 1,551, and Fort Smith with 1,532 hardy souls.
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Editorial, Pages 82 on 08/16/2009
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