Huntsville Massacre - Memorial Park - Huntsville AR
N 36° 05.257 W 093° 44.197
15S E 433683 N 3993917
This is one of two Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission signs posted inside Huntsville's Memorial Park.
Waymark Code: WMMKM3
Location: Arkansas, United States
Date Posted: 10/04/2014
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HUNTSVILLE MASSACRE
On January 10, 1863, nine men, including two
Confederate officers and prominent local citizens
and Masonic lodge members, were taken from a
guardhouse near here, led to Samuel Vaughn's
farm one mile northeast of Huntsville, and shot.
Only one man lived. Lt. Col. Elias Baldwin of
the 8th Missouri Cavalry (U.S.) was arrested for
"murder of prisoners of war" but freed when
witnesses failed to appear. The killings may have
been motivated by the deaths of 18 Union soldiers
escorting Isaac Murphy's daughters to their home
in Huntsville in November 1862.
(continued on other side)
The nine men killed on January 10, 1863,
were Chesley H. Boatright, 39, a blacksmith;
Confederate captains Hugh Samuel Berry, 31,
and John William Moody, 22; former county
treasurer William Berry, 60, a farmer; Watson
Stevens, 29, the Berry's cousin; Robert Coleman
Young, 56, a minister; and Askin Hughes and
John Hughes of Tennessee, who were visiting
Huntsville when the incident occured. The sole
survivor of the Huntsville massacre, John Parks,
moved to Mississippi after recovering from his
wounds. No one was ever punished for the
Huntsville slayings.
ARKANSAS CIVIL WAR SESQUICENTENNIAL COMMISSION
CITY OF HUNTSVILLE
NO. 54 ARKANSAS NATURAL AND CULTURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL 2013
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