Nicholas Bartlett Pearce
Nicholas Bartlett Pearce was a brigadier general in the Arkansas State Troops during the American Civil War. He led a brigade of infantry in one of the wars earliest battles in the TransMississippi Theater before serving as a commissary office in the Confederate States Army for the rest of the war.
Pearce was born in Caldwell County, Kentucky, to Allen and Mary Morse Pearce. He studied at Cumberland College in Kentucky before appointment to the United States Military Academy. He graduated from West Point in 1850, twentysixth in a class of fortyfour. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 7th U.S. Infantry and stationed in Arkansas and the Indian Territory for most of his United States Army career. In March 1858 he resigned to join his fatherinlaws mercantile in Osage Mills, Arkansas. Pearce was elected and briefly served as the Colonel of the Benton County Militia Regiment.
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