son of James Anglin and Jansea Barrett.
Harvey Anglin was enrolled on the 19th day of Oct 1861 at Williamstown, Ky. in Co. B, 18th Regiment of Kentucky Volunteers, to serve 3 years. Mustered into service as a private on the 8th day of February 1862, at Paris, Ky. He was captured 19 Sept 1863 at Chickamauga. He died 18 Aug 1864 at the POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia of scurvy and starvation. He left a wife, Jemima Anglin and children, William A. Anglin born 16 July 1857 and Mary E. Anglin b. 1 Dec 1858.
Battle of Chickamauga
Sept. 19, 1863
Neither army knew the exact position of the other. The lines were about six miles long in a thickly wooded area. Brannan's division of USA troops drove back Forrest's CSA Cavalry. The nearest CSA infantry came to help Forrest...this brought on an all-day battle. Of the USA, every division of the 19, 20, and 21 corp were committed.
Harvey Anglin was captured by CSA foces on Sept. 19, 1863, during the first day of the battle and was sent to the POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia. Conditions at this camp were horrible. The prisoners were crowded together in a swampy area with no clean water to drink and very little food to eat. The place was infested with mosquitos, lice, rats, and disease. Several thousand Union soldiers died at this prison...some of disease but mostly they starved to death.
brother of Angus York Little. He was in Co. D, 1st Arkansas Cavalry. He was captured during the Battle of Nubbin Ridge and taken to a Confederate prison in Tyler, Texas. John was killed on the plains in 1866 by Indians on his way out West. He was in A.W. Bishops "Roll of Honor" for the following heroic actions:
John T. Little was sick at home after the Battle of Prairie Grove. While recooperating at home, he heard the cannon fire from the Battle of Fayetteville on April 18, 1863. Although he was sick, he left home to join his comrades in battle.
While John slipped through the Confederate lines, he stole CSA General Cabell's sidearms, along with Cabell's own body servant. He was mentioned in Col. A.W. Bishop's "Roll of Honor" for th is feat.
John was captured at the Battle of Nubbin Ridge, in Benton County, Arkansas. He was taken to a P.O.W. camp in Tyler, Texas. On May 27, 1865 he was released at Red River, Louisiana. In 1866, John headed West. He was killed by Indians somewhere on the plains.
son of John Angus and Margaret Johnson Little. He was a Private in Co. D 1st Regiment Arkansas Cavalry. He was 5' 9" tall, had black hair and black eyes and fair complexion. He fought in the Battle of Prairie Grove. He also fought against the famous Quantrill's Guerrillas who were with the CSA's General Shelby. Angus lost his left eye during a skirmish with Rebels. He and others were forted up in a cabin when they were attacked by Rebels. A ball from a Rebel gun pierced the heavy wooden door, filling Angus eyes with splinters, which blinded his left eye.
Battle of Prairie Grove
The Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas started on Dec. 7, 1862. Angus York, Benjamin F. and John T. Little were in this battle. Fighting against them was Francis Marion Berry (brother of Lucasta Berry Kelm), under Hindmans' CSA forces.
Blunts USA divison of Schofield's Army of the Frontier was 20 miles SW of Fayetteville. Herron (USA) was near Springfield, Mo. with 2 divisions. On Dec. 3, 1862, Hindman (CSA), with 11,000 Confederates went North from Van Buren to destroy Blunts 7,000 Federals. So, General Sam Curtis, G Department of Missouri, ordered Herron (USA) to march the 125 miles to hlep Blunt. The weather was bitter cold with sleet and snow falling.
On Dec. 6, 1862, Hindman (CSA) was about to attack Blunt when HIndman learned that Herron (USA) was near Fayetteville. Hindman left Col. J.C. Monroe Cavalry (CSA) opposite Blunt to screen Blunt's movement, while his main body of Confederates, led by General Marmaduke's Cavalry. proposed to get between the USA armies and defeat Herron, then Blunt. At midnight on Dec. 6, 1862, Herron's USA Infantry entered Fayetteville, after marching 25 miles a day. They were cold, tired, and hungry.
Marmaduke's Cavalry led Hindman's envelopement. Quantrill's Bushwhackers were with them. They attacked Herron's Federal Forces and drove them back. J.O. Shelby (CSA) was captured, but later rescued. Instead of attackin Herron after pushing him back, HIndman set up a defensive force. Herrons Federals advanced against Hindman's Confederates, but was repulsed. Hindman ordered a counter attack, but found that an entire regiment of his new Arkansas Troops had deserted. At 11:00am, Blunt marched to Herron's relief, but Blunt was driven back by Shelby's Cavalry. The Confederate forces held theri positions until dark, then for some reason, withdrew during the night.
When the burial parties went in the found unwounded men dead of exposure, and wounded men who had burned to death while laying near straw stacks to keep warm. The Federals found that many of Hindman's Confederate Soldiers had removed the bullets from their cartridges and had been firing blanks...they had no intention of killing anybody!
La Rue Harrison disobeyed orders to join the other Federals and waited a day or so to move his men. The result of this was many of his soldiers were killed or captured. They were hauling supplies in wagons - family legend says that Angus York Little was the only survivor of this wagon train. He either "played possum" or hid from the CSA.
Clemency Lennis (Brown) Little, wife of Angus, heard the cannon fire during the battle from her home in West Fork. Sometime during the war, Angus and Clemency's home was attacked by Bushwhackers. Clemency hid in a cornfield and suffered a heat stroke. Her health was never very good after that.