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Peter Caulder

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Peter Caulder was a soldier and settler in the United States.[1][2] Exclusionary acts chased him and his family as well as others from Arkansas.

A native of South Carolina he married Eliza Hall. Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson proclaimed a Peter Caulder Remembrance Day.[3] Historian Billy D. Higgins wrote a book about him.[4] Caulder's name was added to the war memorial to the War of 1812 on the Arkansas Capitol grounds.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Encyclopedia of Arkansas". Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
  2. ^ Higgins, Billy D. (1999). "Peter Caulder: A Free Black Soldier and Pioneer in Antebellum Arkansas". The Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 58 (1): 80–99. doi:10.2307/40026275 – via JSTOR.
  3. ^ https://governor.arkansas.gov/images/uploads/proclamations/170922_2017_Peter_Caulder_Remembrance_Day_in_Arkansas.pdf
  4. ^ Middleton, Stephen (July 26, 2007). "A Stranger and a Sojourner: Peter Caulder, Free Black Frontiersman in Antebellum Arkansas (review)". Civil War History. 53 (1): 71–73. doi:10.1353/cwh.2007.0020 – via Project MUSE.
  5. ^ "Pioneer expelled by Arkansas honored; monument on state Capitol lawn adds black 1812 soldier". Arkansas Online. September 24, 2017.