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Robert O. Banks, Jr. is a retired lawyer who lives on the White River near Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
![Jolly Mill circa 2022. [Photo by Ross Brown]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2024-03/1.-jolly-mill.jpg?itok=r1RVLWbs "Jolly Mill circa 2022. [Photo by Ross Brown]")
Jolly Mill, a grist mill and whiskey distillery, was built in the late 1840s on Capps Creek in…
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![Andrew Jackson Henderson, a member of the Stone Prairie Home Guard, pictured later in the war after he joined Company G of the Fifteenth Missouri Cavalry Volunteers. He also served in Company L of the Seventy-Sixth Enrolled Missouri Militia. [Courtesy of Jeremiah Buntin and Kimberly Harper]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2024-04/1.-stone-prairie-home-guard.jpg?itok=8vU3L2hG "Andrew Jackson Henderson, a member of the Stone Prairie Home Guard, pictured later in the war after he joined Company G of the Fifteenth Missouri Cavalry Volunteers. He also served in Company L of the Seventy-Sixth Enrolled Missouri Militia. [Courtesy of Jeremiah Buntin and Kimberly Harper]")
The Stone Prairie Home Guard (SPHG) was the first Union military organization active in Barry…