Husband of Anna Ella (Sumpter) Little.
(Birth date and location, and death date taken from family bible records from bible published in 1880. To see this document, see Family Bible Record for Ruth Goodeill with Affidavit on familysearch.org, under Anna Ella Sumpter's brother, John James Sumpter's profile, under the Memories tab.)
From Findagrave Contributor Travis Holt (48272081):
"Broadfoot's 'Confederate Military History, Vol. XIV' states:
William J. Little, superintendent of the United States reservation at Hot Springs, was born in Pike county, Ark., in 1843, and was there reared and educated. In Hicks county, in 1862, he enlisted as a private in Col. C. H. Matlock's regiment, the Thirty-second Arkansas, with which he served for eighteen months, until after the fall of Little Rock, when he was detailed for recruiting duty at his home. Here he co-operated effectively in the raising and organizing of Dobbin's brigade of cavalry, in which he served as adjutant and later as commissary with the rank of captain. Among the more important engagements in which he had a hand were Whitney's Lane, near Searcy, Elkhorn Tavern, Helena and Little Rock and besides these he took a part in numerous skirmishes, of which there were many in Arkansas from the second year of the war to its close. Among the incidents of his service were a wound received at the Whitney's Lane fight, and capture by the enemy in eastern Arkansas, but fortunately the wound was slight and as for his capture he was speedily able to escape. His service ended with surrender at Searcy, when the war was at an end, and he then engaged in farming in his native county. After this he was occupied for several years as a traveling salesman for a St. Louis mercantile house but in the seventies he made his home at Hot Springs, where he has been active and enterprising in public affiars. "
(Birth date and location, and death date taken from family bible records from bible published in 1880. To see this document, see Family Bible Record for Ruth Goodeill with Affidavit on familysearch.org, under Anna Ella Sumpter's brother, John James Sumpter's profile, under the Memories tab.)
From Findagrave Contributor Travis Holt (48272081):
"Broadfoot's 'Confederate Military History, Vol. XIV' states:
William J. Little, superintendent of the United States reservation at Hot Springs, was born in Pike county, Ark., in 1843, and was there reared and educated. In Hicks county, in 1862, he enlisted as a private in Col. C. H. Matlock's regiment, the Thirty-second Arkansas, with which he served for eighteen months, until after the fall of Little Rock, when he was detailed for recruiting duty at his home. Here he co-operated effectively in the raising and organizing of Dobbin's brigade of cavalry, in which he served as adjutant and later as commissary with the rank of captain. Among the more important engagements in which he had a hand were Whitney's Lane, near Searcy, Elkhorn Tavern, Helena and Little Rock and besides these he took a part in numerous skirmishes, of which there were many in Arkansas from the second year of the war to its close. Among the incidents of his service were a wound received at the Whitney's Lane fight, and capture by the enemy in eastern Arkansas, but fortunately the wound was slight and as for his capture he was speedily able to escape. His service ended with surrender at Searcy, when the war was at an end, and he then engaged in farming in his native county. After this he was occupied for several years as a traveling salesman for a St. Louis mercantile house but in the seventies he made his home at Hot Springs, where he has been active and enterprising in public affiars. "
Husband of Anna Ella (Sumpter) Little.
(Birth date and location, and death date taken from family bible records from bible published in 1880. To see this document, see Family Bible Record for Ruth Goodeill with Affidavit on familysearch.org, under Anna Ella Sumpter's brother, John James Sumpter's profile, under the Memories tab.)
From Findagrave Contributor Travis Holt (48272081):
"Broadfoot's 'Confederate Military History, Vol. XIV' states:
William J. Little, superintendent of the United States reservation at Hot Springs, was born in Pike county, Ark., in 1843, and was there reared and educated. In Hicks county, in 1862, he enlisted as a private in Col. C. H. Matlock's regiment, the Thirty-second Arkansas, with which he served for eighteen months, until after the fall of Little Rock, when he was detailed for recruiting duty at his home. Here he co-operated effectively in the raising and organizing of Dobbin's brigade of cavalry, in which he served as adjutant and later as commissary with the rank of captain. Among the more important engagements in which he had a hand were Whitney's Lane, near Searcy, Elkhorn Tavern, Helena and Little Rock and besides these he took a part in numerous skirmishes, of which there were many in Arkansas from the second year of the war to its close. Among the incidents of his service were a wound received at the Whitney's Lane fight, and capture by the enemy in eastern Arkansas, but fortunately the wound was slight and as for his capture he was speedily able to escape. His service ended with surrender at Searcy, when the war was at an end, and he then engaged in farming in his native county. After this he was occupied for several years as a traveling salesman for a St. Louis mercantile house but in the seventies he made his home at Hot Springs, where he has been active and enterprising in public affiars. "
(Birth date and location, and death date taken from family bible records from bible published in 1880. To see this document, see Family Bible Record for Ruth Goodeill with Affidavit on familysearch.org, under Anna Ella Sumpter's brother, John James Sumpter's profile, under the Memories tab.)
From Findagrave Contributor Travis Holt (48272081):
"Broadfoot's 'Confederate Military History, Vol. XIV' states:
William J. Little, superintendent of the United States reservation at Hot Springs, was born in Pike county, Ark., in 1843, and was there reared and educated. In Hicks county, in 1862, he enlisted as a private in Col. C. H. Matlock's regiment, the Thirty-second Arkansas, with which he served for eighteen months, until after the fall of Little Rock, when he was detailed for recruiting duty at his home. Here he co-operated effectively in the raising and organizing of Dobbin's brigade of cavalry, in which he served as adjutant and later as commissary with the rank of captain. Among the more important engagements in which he had a hand were Whitney's Lane, near Searcy, Elkhorn Tavern, Helena and Little Rock and besides these he took a part in numerous skirmishes, of which there were many in Arkansas from the second year of the war to its close. Among the incidents of his service were a wound received at the Whitney's Lane fight, and capture by the enemy in eastern Arkansas, but fortunately the wound was slight and as for his capture he was speedily able to escape. His service ended with surrender at Searcy, when the war was at an end, and he then engaged in farming in his native county. After this he was occupied for several years as a traveling salesman for a St. Louis mercantile house but in the seventies he made his home at Hot Springs, where he has been active and enterprising in public affiars. "
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