The Intrepid Captain of the Arkansas Battery
Life on the Civil War Research Trail
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William Pratt Parks, Mississippi-born and Arkansas-raised, left college in 1861 to join the Confederate army. His service as an artillery officer in the Western and Trans-Mississippi Theaters, a stint on the ironclad "Arkansas," and his postwar career in politics reveal his character.
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