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Hello
I am doing a book on the Civil War in Hot Spring County and I have the following info...I hope it may help.
MANN, PHILLIP S.
PVT. - Enlisted in Co. C, Morgan’s Battalion Arkansas Cavalry CSA. in Clark County, Arkansas, June 27, 1863; he later transferred to Co. F, 6th Arkansas Cavalry CSA. on January 29, 1864 under Col. Morgan’s Battalion, by order of Captain Vantress; shown present to February 29, 1864;
”According to family tradition he rode his own Bay horse and according to records in his estate settlement he still had the horse after the war.” When Phillip left to fight in the war his wife Delitha and the children were alone at home and must have had to undergo much loneliness not to mention the fear and actual danger due to the wartime conditions. Among the many dangers were the “bushwhackers,” men who would not fight in the regular army but who roamed the countryside raiding homes for supplies, horses and food. Delitha never knew when they might come by to take her stock or her meager supply of food. She had a large log crib where fodder was stored and she kept her staple foods like flour, meal, sugar, coffee, potatoes and any other food such as cured meat, hidden under the log. A branch of the Ouachita River came across the back of her farm and on each side of the creek a very dense growth of trees and underbrush made a perfect hiding place for her stock and horses. Once these men came by to take a horse which she needed for plowing the crops. She begged and pleaded with them to leave it and one of the men seemed touched by her plea but the other men would not agree, and so they left with the horse. Delitha never knew just what happened but the next morning the horse came home. She always thought the younger man may have released it, or that is was able to break away during the night, and of course—knew the way home.”
Phillip S. Mann was born in Virginia, March 12, 1831 (also shown May 12, 1828) and died in Arkansas, March 10, 1919 and is buried in the Old Bismarck Cemetery, Hot Spring County, Arkansas. Phillip S. Mann was listed in Clark County, Arkansas 1860 census with wife Delitha (Grissom) Mann, she was born March 24, 1831 in North Carolina and died February 3, 1883 and is buried in the DeRoche Cemetery, Bismarck, Hot Spring County, Arkansas. She is listed as marrying a second time to a Dr. Booker?
Patrick
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