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Black River Rifles, Co. C (8th Ark.)

My great-great grandfather, William Henry Stiner, was a member of this company (although his tombstone lists him as being a member of the 1 ARK. INF.). He hailed from Lawrence Co., AR having taken a parcel of swamp land on the Black River (which, interestingly, I've located but have yet to visit) in 1861. He was present and wounded at Corinth and most likely Iuka and/or Hatchie Bridge. My question is whether anyone can point me to further information on the Company (other than the Gerdes website compilation, which is amazing). Specifically, I'd like to know what documentation is available as far as enlistment information. In short, I've scoured the census records, marriage records, pension records, etc. and reached a dead end on finding a specific birthdate and place of birth for him and didn't know if perhaps enlistment papers would reveal this. Family records only go back to him and I'm curious as the identity of his parents. Of course, any further information about his company and its activities would also be of great interest.

To the extent anyone is interested, after the war (or perhaps during the war if he returned home prior to its conclusion) he married a war widow named Clarissa Lingo, also of Lawrence County and after two sons died of a "fever," which I assume was malarial, he moved the family to Baxter County, AR near Mountain Home and is buried there.

John Stiner

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