“The Capture of Arkansas Post,” Savannah (GA) Morning News, January 27, 1863

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The Capture of Arkansas Post
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“The Capture of Arkansas Post,” Savannah (GA) Morning News, January 27, 1863, p. 1: 1.
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“Good News From Arkansas,” Lowell (MA) Citizen & News, January 17, 1863

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Good News From Arkansas
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“Good News From Arkansas,” Lowell (MA) Citizen & News, January 17, 1863, p. 2: 3.
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Original image has been adjusted here for presentation purposes.

Approaches to Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, zoomable map

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Approaches to Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, on the Arkansas River : captured by the U.S. Mississippi Squadron, under command of Act'g. Rear Admiral David D. Porter, U.S.N., January 11th, 1863
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Map Collections, Library of Congress Geography and Map Division
Source note
[Washington, D.C.] : The Survey, 1863.

Annotated in pencil on verso: Approaches to Fort Hindman, Arkansas River, January 11, 1863.

Shows Fort Hindman and adjacent areas of the Arkansas River.

From the Joseph R. Hawley papers in LC Manuscript Division.

Arkansas County, Arkansas (Hayward)

Gazetteer/Almanac
John Hayward, Gazetteer of the United States of America… (Philadelphia: James L. Gihon, 1854), 271.
Arkansas County, As., c. h. at Arkansas Post. S. E. part, in the angle between the White and Arkansas Rivers. Surface mostly level, comprising the S. part of Grand Prairie, the soil of which is very fertile.
Gazetteer of the United States of America....

David Dixon Porter (American National Bibliography)

Scholarship
William M. Fowler, "Porter, David Dixon," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/05/05-00629.html.
Dissatisfied with the slow progress of his career, by 1860 Porter was once again giving consideration to leaving the service for more promising civilian pursuits. Abraham Lincoln's election and the ensuing crisis altered the situation dramatically, however. In the spring of 1861, as the Union disintegrated, Porter, brash and ambitious, concocted a plan for reinforcing Fort Pickens at Pensacola and presented it to Secretary of State William Seward.
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