On the evening of 1 May, 1862, Lt. Col. [William F.] Wood leading the First Indiana Cavalry, "took possession of Jacksonport, Arkansas," and early on 2 May, six miles below the town, Wood's men skirmished with Captain Richard Hooker's guerilla company. Privates James Turner and Josiah Wickham were wounded, Wickham dying of his wounds on 16 May.

"First Indiana Cavalry R.o.E." May, 1862. See also: Edward A. Davenport (1888) History of the Ninth Regiment Illinois Cavalry Volunteers , p. 27.