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Clark County was formed from Bourbon and Fayette in 1792. The county seat is the city of Winchester.
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Submitted by Bonnie Snow (1828-1893)James Fleming Fagan was born in Clark County, Kentucky, on March 1, 1828, and the family moved to Arkansas when he was ten. When he was a youth his father was one of the contractors to build the State House at Little Rock, soon after the admission of the State, and died there. His mother, Catherine A. Fagan, then married Samuel Adams, former treasurer of State, in December, 1842. As president of the senate, Mr. Adams succeeded to the governorship in 1844, upon the resignation of Governor Yell, who became a volunteer colonel and fell in the war with Mexico. On the death of his stepfather, Fagan took charge of the farm and family home on the Saline River. Though a Whig, he repeatedly represented the Democratic county of Saline in the Arkansas General Assembly. He served through the war with Mexico in Yell's regiment, returning home a lieutenant, and was among the first to raise a company at the beginning of the Confederate war, being chosen captain of his company, and on regimental organization elected colonel of the 1st Arkansas Infantry Regiment, serving initially with the Confederate Army of the Potomac in Virginia, then returning to Tennessee to participate in the battle of Shiloh and the subsequent campaigns of the Army of Tennessee.On September 12, 1862, Colonel Fagan was promoted to brigadier-general in the provisional army of the Confederate States. He commanded a brigade composed of the Arkansas regiments of Colonels Brooks, Hawthorn, Bell and King, in the Battle of Helena on July 4, 1863, in all 1,339 men, and lost 435 in the determined assaults of his command on Hindman's Hill. His gallantry in this bloody engagement was warmly commended by Gen. T. H. Holmes. General Fagan's command was operating in southern Arkansas during the Federal campaign against Shreveport in 1864, and after Banks' defeat at Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, General Fagan, in command of a cavalry division comprising the Arkansas brigades of W. L. Cabell, T. P. Dockery and W. A. Crawford, was ordered to operate against the Federal expedition of General Steele at Camden. He was highly successful, General Smith reporting that "Fagan's destruction of Steele's entire supply train and the capture of its escort at Marks' Mills precipitated Steele's retreat from Camden." In the last great maneuver in the Trans-Mississippi, Price's raid to the Missouri River, Fagan, who had been commissioned major-general on April 24, 1864, commanded the division of Arkansas cavalry, including the brigades of Cabell, Slemons, Dobbin and McCray, and "bore himself throughout the whole expedition," said General Price, 'with unabated gallantry and ardor, and commanded his division with great ability." At the last he was in command of the District of Arkansas, and as late as April, 1865, he was active and untiring in his efforts, proposing then an expedition for the capture of Little Rock. General Fagan's first wife was a sister of Gen. W. N. R. Beall, and after her death he married Miss Rapley of Little Rock, a niece of Maj. Benjamin J. Field, brother of the first wife of former Governor Henry M. Rector. Not paroled until June 20, 1865, his post-bellum career was devoted to planting and politics. His acceptance of the office of United States marshal from President Grant in 1875, and that of receiver for the Land Office two years later, possibly caused his defeat in 1890, when he was a candidate for state railroad commissioner. General Fagan died at Little Rock on September 1, 1893, and he is buried there in Mount Holly Cemetery . |
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