{"id":106038,"date":"2021-05-06T13:28:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T18:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=106038"},"modified":"2021-05-06T13:28:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T18:28:24","slug":"3rd-arkansas-state-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/3rd-arkansas-state-troops\/","title":{"rendered":"3rd Arkansas State Troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/exit78\/51161883341\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-106039 size-full\" title=\"3rd Arkansas State Troops, May 4, 1860, Washington, Arkansas\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/3rd-Arkansas-State-Troops-30057.jpg\" alt=\"3rd Arkansas State Troops, May 4, 1860, Washington, Arkansas\" width=\"784\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/3rd-Arkansas-State-Troops-30057.jpg 784w, http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/3rd-Arkansas-State-Troops-30057-235x300.jpg 235w, http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/3rd-Arkansas-State-Troops-30057-768x980.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOn the morning of May 4, 1861, a company of Arkansas State Troops known as the Hempstead Rifles prepared to leave for the Civil War. Standing in front of the Jones Hotel in Washington, Arkansas, the men of Company B were given a flag in a presentation ceremony. That afternoon, accompanied by the town\u2019s band, the Rifles marched away, eventually joining Brigadier General Benjamin McCulloch\u2019s Western Army and fighting at Wilson\u2019s Creek on August 10, 1861. Mustered out shortly after the battle, many of the company\u2019s members re-enlisted in other Confederate units.<\/p>\n<p>Tintype by Unknown Photographer<\/p>\n<p>Image Courtesy Wilson\u2019s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 30057<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ozarkscivilwar.org\/photographs\/3rd-arkansas-state-troops\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow\">ozarkscivilwar.org\/photographs\/3rd-arkansas-state-troops\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the morning of May 4, 1861, a company of Arkansas State Troops known as the Hempstead Rifles prepared to leave for the Civil War. Standing in front of the Jones Hotel in Washington, Arkansas, the men of Company B were given a flag in a presentation ceremony. That afternoon, accompanied by the town\u2019s band, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-106038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-misc"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}