Digital Gallery - A Nation Divided: Arkansas in the Civil War

John Campbell, Company I, 37th Illinois Infantry

William Villines, 1st Arkansas Infantry (USA)

Major George W. Wells, 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles

Battle of St. Charles and explosion of the Mound City, White River, Ark.

Union Major General Frederick Steele with his horse Sigel and dog Cap

Steamboats and supplies, DeVall's Bluff, Ark.

Hiram Peck, U. S. Navy

View of occupied Helena, Battery C in back ground, Helena, Ark.

Lieutenant Daniel K. Hardin, 2nd Kansas Colored Infantry

Earls King, 6th Kansas Cavalry

General Richard M. Gano

Receipts for funds deposited with H. and J. Granger

Special Order Number 37

Front cover of General Mosby M. Parsons's order books

Colonel J. F. Hill, 16th Arkansas Infantry (C.S.A.), by C. W. Motes, Athens, Georgia, 1862

Letter, William F. Schafer, on board the steamer Bontiful in Arkansas, to his wife, May 12, 1862

James J. Martin, 21st Arkansas infantry, undated

Reunion of the Blue and Gray, Sulphur Springs, Ark., August 18-22, 1908

Civil War Research

The Butler Center is a premier destination for Civil War research in Arkansas. Within the Butler Center’s vast Civil War holdings, researchers will find hundreds of letters, diaries, photographs, and other primary materials related to Arkansas’s involvement in the war. In addition, the Butler Center also holds an extensive collection of secondary sources and subscribes to a number of online databases, which provide easily accessible and up-to-date information.

If you are interested in the Civil War in Arkansas, you will want to visit us and our partner institution, the UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture, which also has remarkable collections of Civil War materials.

About the Digital Collections

The Butler Center provides online access to selected portions of our collections. These featured collections represent a dynamic sampling of Arkansas history. Included are audio/video clips, digital images of photographs, letters, and other documents as well as educational resources such as lesson plans.

Researchers may also view searchable inventories of our manuscript collection holdings. To access the full range of our resources, we invite you to visit our research room in the Arkansas Studies Institute.

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