The Arkansas History Commission announces new Civil War documents recently given to the State Archives. Dr. David R. Burks of Tucson, Arizona, donated items belonging to his ancestor, James E. Sparks, Company H, 23rd Regiment, Arkansas Volunteers, including an 1863 letter written by Sparks to his wife while he was a prisoner-of-war in Louisiana, a tintype of Sparks in his Confederate uniform, and a surrender muster roll listing the soldiers in Sparks’ company who were taken prisoner, the vast majority of which were from Jonesboro and Harrisburg, Arkansas.