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Typewritten eyewitness account pertaining to the disposition of the dead and wounded following the battle of Prairie Grove (Washington County), December 7, 1862, by Samuel Pinckney Pittman, 1st Sergeant, Company K, 34th Arkansas Infantry. This account was first published in the December 5, 1896 issue of the Mountain City Gazette, Fayetteville (Washington County), Arkansas.

Scope and Content Note Correspondence, legal documents, financial records, and photographs pertaining to the William Wilson family. Significant correspondents include Alfred McIlroy Wilson, Augustus H. Garland, Samuel P. Pittman, Jesse Turner, and Wilson family relatives in Texas.Many of the documents in this collection were published by Walter J. Lemke in a booklet titled The William Wilson Records (Fayetteville: Washington County Historical Society, 1960). In 1981 some...