Confederate Arkansas: The People and Policies of a Frontier State in Wartime Book

This book fills a long-standing gap in state histories dealing with the period of the Civil War in the western frontier that was Arkansas. Based on newspaper articles, legal documents, letters, diaries, reminiscences, songs, and official military reports, Dougan's account provides a full picture of the political situation just prior to the war and sets the stage for the state's entry into the war despite the fact that only one third of the population supported secession.