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Arkansas

Admitted from Arkansas Territory, part of the Louisiana Purchase lands.

Capital Little Rock. June 15, 1836. Order 25.

Militia. Roots in an 1804 Indiana Territory militia law; two companies in what is now Arkansas by 1806. The 1819 territorial act made the governor commander-in-chief of the militia. Largest territorial mobilization: six companies to Fort Towson, 1836.

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