CIVIL WAR

Civil War Events in Mississippi County

September 07-30, 1863 Expedition Big Lake, Mississippi County
August 04, 1864 Skirmish Osceola Mississippi County
  Mississippi Expedition From Camp Lowry, Missouri
April 06, 1864 Action Pemiscot Bayou Mississippi 30 Miles N Of Osceola On
  Ark- Mo Line
April 06-07, 1864 Skirmishes Swamps Of Little River Near Osceola Mississippi
  10 Miles W Of Osceola
August 02, 1864 Action Osceola Mississippi County

Database information courtesy of the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program,
an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage.

Civil War Pensions

In 1891 Arkansas began granting pensions to indigent Confederate veterans.
In 1915 the State began granting pensions to their widows and mothers. Two
published indexes are available in many libraries:

Allen, Desmond Walls. Index to Confederate Pension Applications (Conway,
Ark.: Arkansas Research, 1991).
Ingmire, Frances Terry. Arkansas Confederate Veterans and Widows Pensions
Applications (St. Louis, MO: F.T. Ingmire, 1985).

Bessie L. Cullen Collection at the National Postal Museum. National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution