I found in the "Lawrence County Historical Journal" Volume 10 Issue#2 Fall 2005 a description by Joseph G. Taylor, (noted County historian)of a Civil War Rally.

"South of Smithville was a wooded section known as the Peter Hollerman's pasture, for the man who owned it.....
This pasture was later known as Captain W.C. Sloan's pasture or meadow..... Before and during the Civil War the citizens had their outdoor services and speakings in Peter Hollerman's pasture.

It was here a big rally was held in the cause of states' rights and secession at the Outbreak of the Civil War. The Principal speaker of the day rode on horseback from Little Rock. Probably he was the renowned Claiborne F. Jackson Missouri's refugee Governor, who made a similar speech in the Baptist church in Hookrum (Evening Shade) as that was then in Lawrence County. The writer's father (Joseph Taylor's) said the speaker at Smithville sat on a big Bay horse and when he had delivered his stirring address waved his hat above his head three times and shouted "Three cheers for the states' rights and the Southern Confederacy". the men filled with patriotic fever threw their hats in the air and shouted like wild men. The band struck up with martial airs and when the music ceased someone sttod high and said "Are there a number of young men ready to lay their lives on their country's alter?"
As the young men went forward to enlist in the Confederate service, the shouting of the men gave way to the weeping mothers, sisters, wives and sweethearts as they heroically gave their consent".