General Notes

William Berry enlisted in the army during the Civil war on February 28, 1862 at Dardenelle, Arkansas. He served with the Confederacy in Company K, 31st Regiment, Arkansas Infantry. Like many other soldiers from Logan County who served in the war, William Berry learned that the real dangers and horrors were to be found more in the home territory than in the battlefields. He was attacked by a slave just before the close of the war. He met a negro man on a foot log neat Tall Lynn's place on the Deleware creek. The negro man was a run away slave and was afraid that Underwood would tell his master, so the negro said "dead men don't tell tales" and stabbed Underwood with a knife and cut him across the stomach. They were fighting in the water and Underwood had the negro almost drowned when he noticed his own entrails floating in the water. Underwood let the negro go and gathered up his entrails and walked a half mile to a house. They got a Dr from Dardenelle. By that time the entrails were swollen Bad, so they took a tub of warm water and got the swelling out. The Dr put the entrails back and sewed him up, and Underwood survived the ordeal. However, he lived only a year or two after that, his death on February 3,1867 was caused by these injuries. He was 46 years of age

This information was submitted to the Logan County Arkansas "Is History and Its People" by Mrs Arthur Rotert.