Hi all, I read an old post from 2004, in which Bryan Howerton was discussing the location of Washington Barracks. It was in what was then Carroll County, built and used in the winter of 1861, by a battalion of Brooks Arkansas Cavalry, and located on or near Crooked Creek, according to Ras Stirman's letters. Often described by contemporary sources as south of Harrison, either off of Hwy 7 south, or else in the Bellefonte area. It was still being used in the summer and fall of 1862, as some members of the 27th Arkansas Infantry, were enlisted there. In Bryan's old post, he thought he had specific location information somewhere, but I never saw it posted. I grew up in Harrison, graduated school there, and searched for many of the local Civil Sites in Boone County in the early 1980s. We found the site of Clapper's Mill, [Klepper] in the 1980s. Am familiar with some of the other Civil War era locations such as Stroud's Store and Mt. Pleasant, but cannot for the life of me figure out exactly where Washington Barracks may have been located. As with most if not all early war Confederate Winter Quarters cabins, barracks, buildings, it'a almost a sure bet that Union troops eventually burned or destroyed the Washington Barracks site, in order to prevent it's handy re-use by Confederate irregulars later in the war. Yet, I cannot locate any Federal accounts of burning barracks or quarters in the Crooked Creek area either. Has anyone ever seen more of a description of these barracks from a diary, memoir or report ? Thanks, Steve