Peter Caulder

Peter Caulder was a soldier in the war of 1812 and settler in Arkansas, until he and other African American residents were driven out of the state by an 1859 state law that forbid African Americans from residing in the state.[1][2]

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

  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.
  3. ↑ arkansas.gov
  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.


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