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| | AHQ: A Survey of Historic Washington, Arkansas, 361. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | With the Washington Brass Band, an organization which often marched out of town with the newly formed companies so it could lead them triumphantly through the villages they passed on their way to their regiments----and for which Editor Eakin had nothing but grandiloquent praise----and which played for each ceremony, Washington sent its men to war. |
 | | The Hempstead Rifles were the first to organize (83) and the organization's commander, Colonel John R. Gratiot, could boast of such officers as Daniel W. Jones, who was later to become Governor of Arkansas, and Benjamin P. Jett, son of one of Hempstead's wealthy families (84). |
 | | The Fourth Arkansas Regiment, with two natives of Washington, Evander McNair and A. Brice Williams as Colonel and lieutenant Colonel (85), also enlisted a company of 86 men, commanded by John W. Rawles, from Hempstead County. |
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