More info relating to 1st Arkansas Cav:
Price and others captured by the Union forces 11-22-1864 in Woodruff County On 11-22-1864 in Woodruff County, Fielding Price of White County Arkansas was taken prisoner by the Union forces.
It is now believed it was the 61st Illinois out on a patrol that picked the men up. With Price at that time were five others.
In the Rebels' Hell published in 1993 which Tom Ezell ,noted Civil War Historian in Arkansas, suggested I read, it lists Lt. Fielding Price Of White Co., Lt. J. Pemberton, Lt. A.W. Jones, Pvt. Wm Tatum, Pvt. John Forsuth, and Pvt. Wiley Dunn. They were sent to the Union Prison in Little Rock and are listed at being admitted on 11-25-64.
Price died of variola (smallpox) on Feb. 1, 1865. Forsuth died of the same on May 10, 1865.
Pemberton, Jones, Tatum, and Dunn took the oath on May 7, 1865 to be released.
Of all these men, Pemberton said only that he was with Davis Co. Jones said he was with 1st Ark. Rifles, and everyone else is listed as unassigned.
I am very interested in connecting with the descendents of these men to see what oral history was pasted down to them regarding their ancestors' time in the Yankee Prison in Little Rock.
Please feel free to contact me.
Pemberton signed the papers for Fielding Price's widow, Mary called "Polly", to receive a one time payment of $25 in 1897. Mary Price stated he was with the 1st Arkansas.
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