Samuel Folkes/Fookes service record cards are filed under the name Samuel Folks
Samuel Folks enlisted as a Private in (Old) Company E**, 2nd Arkansas Infantry July 29, 1861 at Camp Hardee, assigned extra duty as a Blacksmith/Mechanic July 1862 at Brigade Workshop, last shown present at February 29, 1864 muster
**This company was consolidate with Company D, same regiment by order of Major General Hardee dated June 12, 1862, and the new organization was designated Company D, 2nd Regiment Arkansas Infantry
Second Arkansas infantry (Confederate)
The Second Arkansas infantry (Confederate) was organ-
ized through the energy of Hon. Thomas C. Hindman, of
Helena, Ark., who was representative in Congress in
i86i, for the Second district of Arkansas. He resigned
his seat upon the secession of the State, and returning
home began recruiting volunteers for the Confederate
States army; soon forming a full regiment of which he
was elected colonel; J. W. Bocage, lieutenant-colonel;
J. W. Scaife, major. Charles E. Patterson was appointed
adjutant; Dr. Ralph Horner, surgeon, and Rev.
Samuel Cowley, chaplain. The captains were : Com-
pany A, C. A. Bridewell ; Company B, Thomas Quinlin ;
Company C, E. Warfield; Company D, E. G. Brashear ;
Company E, Anderson ; Company F, D. C. Govan ; Com-
pany G, B. B. Taliaferro ; Company H, R. F. Harvey;
Company I, C. D. Ross. Hindman was disappointed in
getting arms for his company at first and asked for orders
to march, which were not issued as promptly as he de-
sired. He believed that through political influence at
Richmond he was being slighted. He adopted heroic
measures ; seized steamers laden with heavy cargoes of
sugar going up the river to Cincinnati and Pittsburg, and
confiscating the freight found on them purchased such
arms as he could and embarked his command for Mem-
phis. While thus delayed, other organizations joined him
—Lieut.-Col. John S. Marmaduke's battalion of eight
companies, which he afterward denominated the Third
Confederate infantry, three companies of cavalry under
Maj. C. W. Phifer, and Captain Swett's Mississippi bat-
tery of four guns. The combined force, temporarily
known as Hindman's legion, was first sent to Randolph,
Tenn., then to the defense of Columbus, Ky., when it was
bombarded by the Western flotilla under Foote, in co-
operation with Federal General Grant. Hindman's regi-
ment did effective service at Richmond and Perryville,
Ky., and in Hindman's division was in that part of Sidney
Johnston's line which swept through Sherman's camps at
Shiloh. Hindman, who had been promoted to brigadier-
general, had his horse killed under him, and after the
battle was promoted to major-general and given perma-
nent command of the division. His old regiment was in
the battles of Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Ringgold
Gap, Dalton, Resaca, Peachtree Creek, Atlanta, Franklin
and Nashville, and finally at Bentonville, N. C. Major-
General Hindman himself, after serving in several battles
in the Georgia campaign, was struck, in riding, by the
branch of a tree across his eyes, which became inflamed
and rendered him unfit for duty. He was granted a fur-
lough, and finally settled in Mexico and engaged in coffee
culture. But one day his magnificent plantation was
overrun by revolutionists, who made his hacienda their
battlefield, and he returned to Arkansas to engage in the
practice of his profession. He was an expert in political
tactics, and was active as a Democratic manager in his
county. One night, seated by his fire smoking, he was
assassinated by some person or persons who stood outside
with a shotgun, and, firing through the glass of the win-
dow, inflicted a fatal wound in his neck. He was com-
posed and courageous to the end, talking to his friends
who had rushed in, and to his family in regard to the
education of his children and disposition of his effects.
His murderers could never be detected.
Source: Confederate Military History, vol. XIV, p. 292