I have the following info, wondering if it might help any. Please let me
know if it does or not. This is a deadend for me too. My greaet grandmother was
Lucy Carter Josey, and I am not even sure yet if this Lucy is the same.
4-25-2000
http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/1infcob.html
First Arkansas Infantry, CSA
Company B—Clark County Volunteers.
Carter, George B
Private-- Enlisted at Little Rock, Arkansas, May 8, 1861; transferred to the
Clark County Artillery, June 17, 1862; appointed seventh corporal; promoted
sixth corporal; captured at Shelbyville, Tennessee, June 27, 1863; sent to U.S.
Military Prison at Fort Delaware; exchanged at City Point, Virginia, March
1865; born c1839; died June 27, 1899; occupation clerk; his widow Lucy J. Carter
applied for pension from Clark county in 1901 (Pension #16696 approved August
14, 1901).
The “Clark County Volunteers” began organizing around Arkadelphia, Clark
County, Arkansas, in April 1861. Upon completing their organization, they
marched to Little Rock, where they enlisted on May 8, 1861. The company officers
were Captain Charles S. Stark, First Lieutenant George W. McIntosh, Second
Lieutenant Frederick M. Greene, and Third Lieutenant William E. Lindsey. The Clark
County Volunteers were sent to Lynchburg, Virginia, where, on May 19, 1861,
they were assigned as Company B, First Regiment, Arkansas Volunteers. The
company served with this regiment throughout the war, surrendering with the Army
of Tennessee at Greensboro, North Carolina, on April 26, 1865, with only ten
men. Two of the Clark County Volunteers were awarded the Confederate equivalent
of the Medal of Honor—Lieutenant Andrew J. Pitner (posthumously) and Private
Charles Trickett.
Jackie
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