Broadfoot's 'Confederate Military History, Vol. XIV' states:
'Captain Pleasant W. Buchanan, when the war began, was professor of mathematics at Cane Hill university, and a young man greatly beloved by all with whom he was associated. He was elected captain of the first company of state troops organized at Cane Hill composed largely of the college boys, the president, F. R. Earle, serving as a private. His command was a part of the Third Arkansas state troops, and served under Colonel Gratiot at the battle of Wilson's Creek. When the state troops were disbanded Captain Buchanan raised a company of infantry for the Confederate service, which was mustered in as Company H, Fifteenth Arkansas infantry. At the battle of Elkhorn Tavern he was captured, and before he was exchanged, the regiment, having been transferred to Mississippi, was reorganized and his place was filled. Consequently he raised another company of cavalry in northwest Arkansas, and joined the command of Col. Wh. H. Brooks. This force was actively engaged in raiding, scouting and foraging in northwest Arkansas in the summer and fall of 1863, after which it was ordered to southern Arkansas. A number of squads having been left in the northwest in this movement, Captain Buchanan, in command of eleven picked men, was sent across the Arkansas river, and through the Federal lines by General Cabell to gather up the scattered squads and bring them south. He was successful in evading the Federal pickets and garrisons and reached Cane Hill, where he and his men separated to visit their homes and call in their comrades, who were still carrying on a desultory warfare against the enemy. On reaching his home, near the Federal post at Boonsboro, the captain found two of his brothers anxious to enter the service. Their father had been murdered at his home about a month before by a scouting party of negroes and Indians. To mount his brothers, Mont. Wilson, assisted by two ladies, secured the horse of Maj. M. B. C. Wright, the Federal commandant of the Second Indian home guard battalion, at Boonsboro, who, on discovering his loss, sent out scouting parties in all directions. One of these, on February 9, 1864, found Captain Buchanan, with his unarmed brothers, and killed the three, three others of the party present succeeding in making their escape. It was one of the most deplorable of the many tragic events of similar character that characterized the war in Arkansas. One of the surviving brothers of Captain Buchanan became a professor of the Cumberland university, Tenn., after the war, and another a minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian church.'
Contributor: Travis Holt
'Captain Pleasant W. Buchanan, when the war began, was professor of mathematics at Cane Hill university, and a young man greatly beloved by all with whom he was associated. He was elected captain of the first company of state troops organized at Cane Hill composed largely of the college boys, the president, F. R. Earle, serving as a private. His command was a part of the Third Arkansas state troops, and served under Colonel Gratiot at the battle of Wilson's Creek. When the state troops were disbanded Captain Buchanan raised a company of infantry for the Confederate service, which was mustered in as Company H, Fifteenth Arkansas infantry. At the battle of Elkhorn Tavern he was captured, and before he was exchanged, the regiment, having been transferred to Mississippi, was reorganized and his place was filled. Consequently he raised another company of cavalry in northwest Arkansas, and joined the command of Col. Wh. H. Brooks. This force was actively engaged in raiding, scouting and foraging in northwest Arkansas in the summer and fall of 1863, after which it was ordered to southern Arkansas. A number of squads having been left in the northwest in this movement, Captain Buchanan, in command of eleven picked men, was sent across the Arkansas river, and through the Federal lines by General Cabell to gather up the scattered squads and bring them south. He was successful in evading the Federal pickets and garrisons and reached Cane Hill, where he and his men separated to visit their homes and call in their comrades, who were still carrying on a desultory warfare against the enemy. On reaching his home, near the Federal post at Boonsboro, the captain found two of his brothers anxious to enter the service. Their father had been murdered at his home about a month before by a scouting party of negroes and Indians. To mount his brothers, Mont. Wilson, assisted by two ladies, secured the horse of Maj. M. B. C. Wright, the Federal commandant of the Second Indian home guard battalion, at Boonsboro, who, on discovering his loss, sent out scouting parties in all directions. One of these, on February 9, 1864, found Captain Buchanan, with his unarmed brothers, and killed the three, three others of the party present succeeding in making their escape. It was one of the most deplorable of the many tragic events of similar character that characterized the war in Arkansas. One of the surviving brothers of Captain Buchanan became a professor of the Cumberland university, Tenn., after the war, and another a minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian church.'
Contributor: Travis Holt
Broadfoot's 'Confederate Military History, Vol. XIV' states:
'Captain Pleasant W. Buchanan, when the war began, was professor of mathematics at Cane Hill university, and a young man greatly beloved by all with whom he was associated. He was elected captain of the first company of state troops organized at Cane Hill composed largely of the college boys, the president, F. R. Earle, serving as a private. His command was a part of the Third Arkansas state troops, and served under Colonel Gratiot at the battle of Wilson's Creek. When the state troops were disbanded Captain Buchanan raised a company of infantry for the Confederate service, which was mustered in as Company H, Fifteenth Arkansas infantry. At the battle of Elkhorn Tavern he was captured, and before he was exchanged, the regiment, having been transferred to Mississippi, was reorganized and his place was filled. Consequently he raised another company of cavalry in northwest Arkansas, and joined the command of Col. Wh. H. Brooks. This force was actively engaged in raiding, scouting and foraging in northwest Arkansas in the summer and fall of 1863, after which it was ordered to southern Arkansas. A number of squads having been left in the northwest in this movement, Captain Buchanan, in command of eleven picked men, was sent across the Arkansas river, and through the Federal lines by General Cabell to gather up the scattered squads and bring them south. He was successful in evading the Federal pickets and garrisons and reached Cane Hill, where he and his men separated to visit their homes and call in their comrades, who were still carrying on a desultory warfare against the enemy. On reaching his home, near the Federal post at Boonsboro, the captain found two of his brothers anxious to enter the service. Their father had been murdered at his home about a month before by a scouting party of negroes and Indians. To mount his brothers, Mont. Wilson, assisted by two ladies, secured the horse of Maj. M. B. C. Wright, the Federal commandant of the Second Indian home guard battalion, at Boonsboro, who, on discovering his loss, sent out scouting parties in all directions. One of these, on February 9, 1864, found Captain Buchanan, with his unarmed brothers, and killed the three, three others of the party present succeeding in making their escape. It was one of the most deplorable of the many tragic events of similar character that characterized the war in Arkansas. One of the surviving brothers of Captain Buchanan became a professor of the Cumberland university, Tenn., after the war, and another a minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian church.'
Contributor: Travis Holt
'Captain Pleasant W. Buchanan, when the war began, was professor of mathematics at Cane Hill university, and a young man greatly beloved by all with whom he was associated. He was elected captain of the first company of state troops organized at Cane Hill composed largely of the college boys, the president, F. R. Earle, serving as a private. His command was a part of the Third Arkansas state troops, and served under Colonel Gratiot at the battle of Wilson's Creek. When the state troops were disbanded Captain Buchanan raised a company of infantry for the Confederate service, which was mustered in as Company H, Fifteenth Arkansas infantry. At the battle of Elkhorn Tavern he was captured, and before he was exchanged, the regiment, having been transferred to Mississippi, was reorganized and his place was filled. Consequently he raised another company of cavalry in northwest Arkansas, and joined the command of Col. Wh. H. Brooks. This force was actively engaged in raiding, scouting and foraging in northwest Arkansas in the summer and fall of 1863, after which it was ordered to southern Arkansas. A number of squads having been left in the northwest in this movement, Captain Buchanan, in command of eleven picked men, was sent across the Arkansas river, and through the Federal lines by General Cabell to gather up the scattered squads and bring them south. He was successful in evading the Federal pickets and garrisons and reached Cane Hill, where he and his men separated to visit their homes and call in their comrades, who were still carrying on a desultory warfare against the enemy. On reaching his home, near the Federal post at Boonsboro, the captain found two of his brothers anxious to enter the service. Their father had been murdered at his home about a month before by a scouting party of negroes and Indians. To mount his brothers, Mont. Wilson, assisted by two ladies, secured the horse of Maj. M. B. C. Wright, the Federal commandant of the Second Indian home guard battalion, at Boonsboro, who, on discovering his loss, sent out scouting parties in all directions. One of these, on February 9, 1864, found Captain Buchanan, with his unarmed brothers, and killed the three, three others of the party present succeeding in making their escape. It was one of the most deplorable of the many tragic events of similar character that characterized the war in Arkansas. One of the surviving brothers of Captain Buchanan became a professor of the Cumberland university, Tenn., after the war, and another a minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian church.'
Contributor: Travis Holt
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