(Written about 2004)
My interest of Civil War soldiers started when Becky Moore was graduating from high school. Her dad, Bob Moore, thought it would be neat if he could join the Sons of Confederate Veterans, and she could apply for a scholarship to be presented to her at the Lonoke school graduation. Bob remembered that Aunt Jewell Moore had a newspaper clipping of a Civil War veteran that was related to the family, this was several years before Aunt Jewell passed away. She pulled out this newspaper clipping and told us it was Andrew Park and his wife Delia/Delilah. They were the great-grandparents of my Mom and Aunt Jewell on Grandmother Cora’s side of the family. Bob didn’t get into the Sons of Confederates, but I became a member, and ultimately researched other Confederate soldiers.
This book is based on information from my research on my Civil War soldiers that are related to me and my family. I traveled to Memphis, TN. twice to the library, where they have Civil War Pension and Military records of Tennessee soldiers. Pension records for the Civil War soldiers are available in the state where the soldier drew the pension, but the military records are available in the state that he where he enlisted. (For instance if the soldier was in the TN Cavalry you would need to go to Tennessee) You can send off to Washington for those records also, if there is one on him, for a fee. Another place I spent a lot of time at was at the History Commission in Little Rock, AR. where they had these records for the Arkansas soldiers. I also researched material at the Lonoke County court house in Lonoke and at the Walker Library in Lonoke.
R. B. Moore
This book is based on information from my research on my Civil War soldiers that are related to me and my family. I traveled to Memphis, TN. twice to the library, where they have Civil War Pension and Military records of Tennessee soldiers. Pension records for the Civil War soldiers are available in the state where the soldier drew the pension, but the military records are available in the state that he where he enlisted. (For instance if the soldier was in the TN Cavalry you would need to go to Tennessee) You can send off to Washington for those records also, if there is one on him, for a fee. Another place I spent a lot of time at was at the History Commission in Little Rock, AR. where they had these records for the Arkansas soldiers. I also researched material at the Lonoke County court house in Lonoke and at the Walker Library in Lonoke.
R. B. Moore
contact me @ morechev@ipa.net
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