Pearce, N. Bart (Nicholas Bart), 1828-1894

found: NUCMC data from Arkansas Hist. Comm. for His Manuscript, undated(N.B. Pearce; Confederate general; Nicholas Bartlett Pearce was born July 20, 1828, at Princeton, Ky. After graduating from West Point in 1850, he entered the service and was stationed in Texas, Utah, and Arkansas. While he was stationed at Fort Smith, he met and married Nancy Katherine Smith. They had six children that survived infancy. Pearce was against secession but upon Arkansas's secession from the Union was appointed Brigadier General to command the 1st Division, Army of Arkansas. The one major battle that he and his company fought was the Battle of Oak Hills (Wilson's Creek), Missouri. The company voted to disband after they returned to Arkansas, and Pearce made no attempt to receive a Confederate commission. Pearce became a major in the commissary department, where he remained through the duration of the Civil War. After the war, he returned to his family's property at Osage Mills, Ark., and rebuilt the mill after its destruction during the war. During 1872-1874, he was professor of mathematics and engineering at Arkansas Industrial University, now the University of Arkansas. He moved to Whitesboro, Tex., in the late 1870s, due to his wife's bad health. His wife died in 1885, and he remained in Texas until his death on Mar. 8, 1894.)

found: Civil War dic., c1987(Pearce, Nicholas Bartlett; ca. 1816-1894; USMA class of 1850)

found: Wikipedia, viewed Apr. 14, 2010(Nicholas Bartlett Pearce; commonly known as N. Bart Pearce; b. July 20, 1828; d. Mar. 8, 1894; brigadier general in the Arkansas state militia during the Civil War; he led a brigade of infantry in one of the war's earliest battles in the Trans-Mississippi Theater before serving as a commissary officer in the Confederate States Army for the rest of the war)