Ouachita County -- History Articles
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- 1. "Historic
Camden," by J. E. Gaughan in Arkansas Historical Quarterly
20 (Autumn 1961): 245-55.
- A short, general account of the city's history in the
19th century.
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- 2. "Journal of Trip
from Camden to Texas, 1849," by Orville Taylor in Arkansas
Historical Quarterly 10 (Autumn 1951): 285-94.
- Diary of Robert F. Kellam of Camden who with a friend
traveled to Rusk County, Texas, to visit family. Interesting details of
life in the region before the Civil War.
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- 3. "The Year 1856
As Viewed by an Arkansas Whig," by Horace Adams in Arkansas
Historical Quarterly 1(March-December 1942): 124-33.
- A narrative using excerpts from the diary of John William
Brown of Camden, emphasizing the apparent lack of impact of stirring national
events, such as the Brooks-Sumner Affairs and the Sack of Lawrence, on
the life of a small southern city.
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- 4. "An Arkansas
Alderman, 1857," by Horace Adams in Arkansas Historical Quarterly
11(Summer 1952): 79-101.
- Continuation of the narrative of the life of John William
Brown of Camden based on his diary. The title is slightly misleading, for
although Brown had been elected an alderman of the city, his diary tells
almost nothing of this work. Rather its focus is upon Camden's businesses'
economic problems related to the panic of 1857 and to family problems related
to illness.
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- 5. Camden
Expedition
- Eleven articles from the Arkansas Historical Quarterly
deal with the Union force's advance into southern Arkansas in 1864 during
the Civil War, its occupation of Camden, and its retreat back to Little
Rock.
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