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	Elisha Baxter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Baxter was physically removed from the governor's office by Brooks and state militia loyal to him.
		Elisha Baxter died in Batesville, Arkansas and is buried at Oaklawn Cemetery in Batesville, Arkansas.
		Baxter declined to accept the 1874 nomination for governor and was the last Republican governor to be elected in Arkansas until Winthrop Rockefeller in 1967.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elisha_Baxter (347 words)

	Brooks-Baxter War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Brooks-Baxter War was an 1874 political struggle between factions of the Republican Party in the State of Arkansas that turned into an armed conflict.
		Brooks was immediately sworn into office and with the aid of General Robert F. Catterson and state militia marched to the Statehouse and physically forced Baxter out of the Governor's Office.
		Baxter was chosen by the Claytonists because he was a native Unionist and they hoped to divide the Democratic and scalawag vote by nominating one of their own.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brooks-Baxter_War (1261 words)

	Brooks-Baxter War » History of a Landmark » General Information » Old State House
		Brooks, still seething over the election of 1872, became the Republican leader and was supported by allies who could testify to the crookedness of that election since they had fixed it themselves; in a curious twist of logic and justice, they rationalized supporting Baxter as the rightful governor.
		Brooks, a gaunt, bearded man with a stentorian voice (he had formerly been a Methodist preacher in Missouri, though he was born in Ohio), was the leader of the Brindletail Republicans, so-named because Brooks was said to bellow as loud as a brindletail bull.
		Baxter, a heavyset man with thinning hair and a former dry goods merchant in Batesville (he had been born in South Carolina) was the leader of the Minstrel Republicans, so-named because one of their leaders, John Price, was a musician.
	www.oldstatehouse.com /general_information/history/brooksbaxter.asp (4833 words)

	"A History of Independence County, Arkansas
		Baxter won, but Brooks and some of the men claimed votes had been improperly counted and that he was the actual winner.
		The war was ended by the Treaty of Fountainbleau in 1762 and the Treaty of Paris in 1763, and Louisiana became a possession of Spain.
		Another reference to Civil War in Batesville and its effects upon the local populace is a narrative of the ordeal of Emily Weaver, a true spy story of the War, written by W. Crowley of Homewood, Illinois, and published in the Chronicle, Vol.
	www.knology.net /~lizglenn/april76.htm (21231 words)

	Old State House (Little Rock) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During reconstruction the building became the central focal point of the Brooks-Baxter War and the building was turned into a fortification during that struggle.
		During the American Civil War the building was used as a barracks by Union troops occupying Little Rock.
		The Old State House was renamed as the 'Arkansas War Memorial' and was used as an office building for federal and state agencies as well as a meeting place for patriotic organizations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Old_State_House_(Little_Rock) (395 words)

	ARKANSAS - LoveToKnow Article on ARKANSAS
		The climax of the Reconstruction period was the so-called Baxter-Brooks war.
		After Baxter had been a year in office Brooks received a judgment of ouster against him from a state circuit judge, and got possession of the public buildings (April 1874).
		In the years of war that followed, a very large proportion of the able-bodied men of the state served in the armies of the Confederacy; several regiments, some of colored troops, served the Union.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AR/ARKANSAS.htm (2232 words)

	RESWEB.HTM
		The Brooks and Baxter War, a historically significant event in Arkansas history, should have been peacefully settled by the Arkansas government, but due to popular feelings and politics, transformed into an excuse for bloodshed.
		Brooks and Baxter both tried to sooth the harried nerves of their men and settle the dispute through the federal courts.
		To further add to the mounting chaos, Clayton abandoned his unfaithful and uncontrollable candidate to throw his support to his long hated rival, Joseph Brooks, who had constantly pursued the overthrow of Baxter (Berry).
	asms.k12.ar.us /armem/looper/RESWEB.HTM (1526 words)

	Arkansas on Encyclopedia.com
		Baxter's apparent success in the election was not accepted by Brooks, and followers of the two men resorted to violence in what became known as the Brooks-Baxter War.
		In the Civil War, Confederate defeats at Pea Ridge (Mar., 1862), Prairie Grove (Dec., 1862), and Arkansas Post (Jan., 1863) led to Union occupation of N Arkansas, and General Grant's Vicksburg campaign separated states W of the Mississippi from the rest of the Confederacy.
		The decline of industrial output after the war was offset by the vigorous efforts of a state development commission formed in 1955 to attract new industry to Arkansas.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/arkanssta_history.asp (2034 words)

	Faulkner County Historical Society
		A highlight of the Reconstruction period was the so-called Brooks-Baxter War in April-May 1874.
		It was reported from Conway that five hundred anvils were fired and a United States flag was raised bearing the inscription, "Hurrah for Baxter, the People's Governor!" (9) Joseph Brooks vacated the capitol building and ordered his forces disbanded; he was later rewarded with appointment as Little Rock postmaster.
		These efforts in 1874 to remove Elisha Baxter from his post as Governor of Arkansas and replace him with Joseph Brooks resulted in the so-called Brooks-Baxter War, "a fracus somewhat less serious than a war but more serious and bloody than a farce." Armed men engaged in conflict in Pulaski County, Jefferson County, and elsewhere.
	www.faulknerhistory.com /articles/battleatpalarm.htm (1404 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - Arkansas
		There was some corruption in the state Republican Party, however, and it culminated in what was known as the Brooks-Baxter War.
		From 1836 until the American Civil War started in 1861, settlement continued and slaveholding spread as plantation owners developed the rich cotton lands of southern and eastern Arkansas and the river bottoms of the northwest.
		When World War II came, Arkansans flocked to defense jobs in the country’s industrial cities, causing a further sharp decline in the state’s population.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761568489__1/Arkansas.html (10180 words)

	Arkansas Bar Association Publications
		Brooks and his supporters immediately seized control of the state capitol, thereby precipitating the Brooks-Baxter War.
		Baxter was declared the winner and sworn into office, but Brooks contested the election in the state courts.
		Brooks' coup d'etat ended abruptly after President Grant declared his support for Baxter.
	www.arkbar.com /Ark_Lawyer_Mag/Articles/HistoricalSocietySummer05.html (780 words)

	civilwarnew
		Baxter was a resident of Scott County, Arkansas and a private in Company I, Second Arkansas Cavalry (Union).
		Among the Civil War related materials are: files pertaining to the battles of Fayetteville, Cane Hill, and Prairie Grove; files pertaining to the activities of the Civil War Centennial Commission from 1958-1964; cemetery lists; and other materials which were likely published in Flashback.
		Dudley Jones was an Iowa resident prior to the war, having participated in the California Gold Rush and engaging in a number of business operations in that state, New York, and Iowa.
	dante.uark.edu /SpecialCollections/findingaids/civilwar5.html (4398 words)

	baxter.htm
		This was the beginning of the month long Brooks-Baxter War.
		Baxter was inaugurated the following year over Brooks' protest.
		Baxter was born in North Carolina and came to Arkansas in 1852, settling in Batesville.
	www.cals.lib.ar.us /butlercenter/facts/baxter.htm (335 words)

	Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials
		Skirmishes erupted between the two camps in what was known as the Brooks-Baxter War.
		After Baxter was inaugurated, a circuit judge ruled that Brooks had been elected and was the rightful governor.
		Baxter won the official count, but Brooks contested the outcome.
	www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=20850 (112 words)

	AHQ: "The Bear State Image: Arkansas in the Nineteeth Century," 106.
		The Brooks-Baxter "war," as the event known locally, was featured on the cover of an eastern magazine, received wide coverage in the newspapers, and reinforced the state's reputation for violence and physical abuse (21).
		When the Civil War ended in 1865, the state auditor reported a surplus in the treasury in excess of $200,000.
		Two Republican candidates claimed victory, and a civil war was averted only by threatened intervention of federal troops.
	www.saumag.edu /swark/articles/ahq/arkansas/bearstate/bearstate106.html (312 words)

	Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas
		The period for the close of the Civil War to the adoption of the present State Constitution was a dark one in the history of Arkansas.
		When the war broke out he had seventy-five head of cattle, twenty-four horses and mules and 2,000 bushels of corn, all of which were appropriated by the Union troops, Mr.
		Since the war he has devoted his time to farming, and not only is his land valuable for farming, but it is also heavily underlaid with coal.
	www.couchgenweb.com /arkansas/pope/biog-1.htm (20083 words)

	GOODSPEED'S BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL MEMOIRS
		He became a Democrat after the war, and in 1873 was elected from Randolph County, as a Democrat, to the extraordinary session of the legislature, and served eighteen days during the Brooks-Baxter war, at the call of Governor Baxter.
		When the war was over, it would naturally seem that after witnessing and taking part in the terrible carnage of his numerous battles, he would prefer a peaceful life, but, strange to say, his occupation was butchering while in Jacksonport, as though he had not yet been satiated by the sight and smell of blood.
		Brady, the father, was a farmer and blacksmith, [p.776] and resided here until the war, when, fired with a desire to battle for the cause of the Confederacy, he left the peace and quiet of his family for the turmoil and dangers of war.
	www.couchgenweb.com /lawrence/law-abc.htm (10078 words)

	Van Buren Press Argus-Courier: History
		During the Brooks and Baxter war, this paper was the only one in Northwest Arkansas to champion the Baxter cause, according to the History of Crawford County.
		"The Van Buren Argus was a child of the Brooks and Baxter Was," according to the History of Crawford County.
		It was the organ standing for the Brooks position.
	www.pressargus.com /history (1568 words)

	HISTORY AND TRADITION
		The weapons were part of a colorful past in 1874 during what became known as the "Brooks-Baxter War".
		Brooks along with an angry mob commandeered the statehouse in Little Rock and Baxter called out the state militia to retaliate.
		The conflict between newly elected governor of Arkansas Elisha Baxter and his defeated opponent Joseph Brooks began when Brooks contested the election results fifteen months after the inauguration and the Pulaski County Circuit Court declared him governor.
	www.uark.edu /depts/armyrotc/History/history_and_tradition.htm (1420 words)

	Chronicles of Oklahoma
		Baxter was supported as a regular Republican and Brooks as what was called a "brindletail".
		In that controversy the late A. Garland, afterward governor of Arkansas and United States Senator from that state and Attorney General in President Cleveland's cabinet, was in command of the troops supporting the Baxter administration.
		Browne was an adherent of Baxter in the election and also continued to support him after the controversy arose as to the title to the office of governor.
	digital.library.okstate.edu /chronicles/v010/v010p442.html (6568 words)

	The history of Booneville and South Logan County, Arkansas
		Reconstruction in Arkansas effectively ended in 1874 with the Brooks-Baxter war, a armed civil and military conflict between two rival Republican claimants to the governorship of the state.
		The Civil War had brought disorganization and disintegration to the entire social system of Arkansas.
		Senator Sarber, for whom the new county had been named, was a native of Pennsylvania and had served as a Federal officer during the Civil War.
	www.booneville.com /C-History.htm (1648 words)

	Robert Crittenden Newton
		On 19 May, 1874, the Brooks forces having evacuated the capitol under the proclamation of President Grant, General Newton occupied the yard and grounds, and the next day reinstated Governor Baxter in possession of the public buildings, property, and archives.
		In May, 1873, when Governor Elisha Baxter decided to reorganize the militia of the state, he appointed General Newton one of two major-generals to carry out the work ; but, on the advice of President Grant, he determined to disband all the military forces of the state.
		After the war he took an active part in the work of reconstruction.
	www.famousamericans.net /robertcrittendennewton (497 words)

	Brooks Baxter War for Governor 1872 Arkansas Encyclopedia
		At the 1861 State Convention, Arkansas voted to join the Confederacy in the American Civil War with Isaac Murphy casting the sole dissenting vote.
		Following the war, Arkansas entered a period known as Reconstruction.
		Little Rock has been the capital ever since, except when the Confederate state government was at Washington in Hempstead County during the Civil War
	www.geocities.com /arkencyclo/brkbax.html (1604 words)

	Find in a Library: The Brooks and Baxter war a history of the reconstruction period in Arkansas.
		The Brooks and Baxter war a history of the reconstruction period in Arkansas.
		Find in a Library: The Brooks and Baxter war a history of the reconstruction period in Arkansas.
		WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries.
	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/94671036cd5625d2a19afeb4da09e526.html (78 words)

	Publications Historic Preservation of Arkansas landmarks and Main Street Arkansas through programs & grants
		The Lonoke cannon is said to have historical ties to the Brooks-Baxter War of 1874.
		The Arkansas Civil War Heritage Trail is a network of regional private, nonprofit, volunteer organizations seeking to identify, protect, interpret and promote Arkansas properties related to the state’s Civil War experience.
		Civil War preservation is a major issue at the location as Drennen owned slaves, some of whom escaped and were aided by the Underground Railroad.
	www.arkansaspreservation.org /publications?ID=32 (3101 words)

	:::► Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net ◄:::
		In 1871, as part of a political compromise (''see: Brooks-Baxter War'') he became Governor of Arkansas after Governor Powell Clayton resigned.
		In 1865, after the American Civil War, he moved to Arkansas where he went into business as a storeowner.
		Hadley served in the Arkansas Senate from 1869 to 1871 and was president of the Senate in 1871.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Ozra_Amander_Hadley.html (287 words)

	Arkansas Secretary of State:Educational Materials:Facts
		The Brooks-Baxter War of 1874, a contest between two Republicans over the governorship, marked the end of Reconstruction in Arkansas.
		During the last year of the Civil War Arkansas had a Union state government in Little Rock and a Confederate state government at Washington in Hempstead County.
		In 1861, Arkansas joined an attempt by 11 southern states to form an independent republic called the Confederate States of America.
	www.sos.arkansas.gov /educational_facts.html (671 words)

	Dummocrats.com - Iraq: not another Vietnam, but another American South?
		Even up until very recent times, ironically, the most overtly racist spots in Arkansas have been in our now booming Northwest which was unionist during the civil war.
		In "Reconstruction vs. Iraq — the Klan vs. Al Qaeda — America lost to the terrorists last time; why won’t that happen again?" we are provided a thought provoking analysis comparing the Civil War Reconstruction to the situation in Iraq
		I see the point the author's aiming for here, but the comparison is stretched a bit thin.
	www.dummocrats.com /links/view_comments.php?thread_id=36072 (149 words)

	Chronicles of Oklahoma
		Jackson, Andrew, Correspondence between Gen. Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun, in regard to the Seminole War, 1831.
		Crimes of the Civil War, by H. Dean.
	digital.library.okstate.edu /Chronicles/v012/v012p222.html (496 words)

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