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Hello. Okay, I see that you posted in Arkansas.
If you do not get the information you need, try putting out a
Hey Bryan or Hey Doyle. Or if you have to write to the Butler Center in Little Rock, attention Brian.
I have seen maps before that showed Civil War movement, but none that I can recall on the group you are asking
about.
As I said, they traveled down the old Military Road. I am almost sure they took the old dirt road that left out from the
Union area just west of the now Sunset cemetery on the existing Hwy 70 and headed north for about a mile until
they entered what was the town of Brownsville.
Look for things called Hicks Station which is where the ball park is now just east of the town of Lonoke on Hwy 70.
At Hicks Station, they would have turned as I said to Brownsville and after Brownsville headed west toward what
was called Reed's Bridge in what is now called Jacksonville marching on the Military Road.
They would have had to cross the Arkansas River probably using whatever the Wisconsin guys had held/built, etc.
Try running a request for information on Brownsville and it should turn up something.
I hope this helps a little. I know where they would have traveled if they were in central Arkansas and since they
were in Brownsville, my information would have to be correct.
Most nearly all the Union troops came up the White River and got off at DeVall's Bluff and headed west which
took them into the area I was speaking of which was where there was a short railroad during that time.
The old Hwy 70 follows the general area of where the railroad was at that time, if I am correct.
As I have lived most of my life in this area, if what I have been told in the past is true, it would have
had to have been that path.
Good luck.

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