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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Ouachita County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1890.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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Henry Gaston Bunn, son of David and Elizabeth Bunn, both now deceased, was born in Nash County, N. C, June 12, 1838, and removed with his parents to Fayette County, Tenn., in 1844, and thence to Ouachita County (now Calhoun), in 1846. He attended Davidson College, North Carolina, from January, 1859, to May, 1861, when he returned home and volunteered in the Confederate army, in the summer of 1861, and became third lieutenant in Company A, Fourth Arkansas Regiment of Infantry. In November, 1861, he was appointed adjutant of the regiment, and in April, 1862, at Corinth, Miss., was made lieutenant-colonel, and was promoted to the colonelcy November 4, 1862. He was in command of the brigade at the surrender, under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, April 26, 1865, at Greensboro, N.C., and marched his brigade home afterward, together with other veteran troops of the Army of the Tennessee. Mr. Bunn began the practice of law in 1866, and moved to Camden in January, 1868, where he has since resided, practicing his profession. He was State Senator from Ouachita and Nevada Counties, in 1873-74, until June of the latter year, when he resigned to take his seat in the Constitutional Convention of that year, to which he had been elected delegate from Ouachita County. He has not held any public position since that time, except special judgeship in the circuit and Supreme Courts, occasionally, and such as are local to Camden.

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This family biography is one of 91 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Ouachita County, Arkansas published in 1890.  For the complete description, click here: Ouachita County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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