Fifteen podcasts about the state's Civil War history have been added to the Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission website, commission Chairman Tom Dupree has announced.
The new podcasts were created in cooperation with the University of Arkansas at Little Rock's School of Mass Communication. The podcasts can be accessed at arkansascivilwar150.com under the Research and Education tab.
The new podcasts are:
• Kelly Jones of Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tenn., on the 54th US. Colored Infantry;
• Tom Wing of the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith on Civil War veterans in the U.S. Marshals Service, the diary of a Union solder from Kansas and an 1864 attack on a Union supply arsenal;
• Josh Williams of Historic Washington State Park on Washington, Ark., in 1865;
• W. Stuart Towns of the St. Francis County Historical Society on post-war efforts to rebury and memorialize Confederate soldiers and postwar reunions;
• Louis Intres of Arkansas State University on the explosion of the steamboat Sultana;
• Rebecca Howard of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville on the Grand Army of the Republic, a Union Veterans organization, in Arkansas;
• Peggy Lloyd of the Southwest Arkansas Regional Archives on black legislator Richard Samuels;
• Sonny Rhodes of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock on Little Rock's feuding Civil War-era newspaper editors; and,
• Mark Christ of the Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission on the steamboat Homer and the battles of Ashley's Station and Bayou Fourche.
Metro on 06/26/2015