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- Private, Company I, 2nd Regiment, Arkansas Infantry, Confederate.
DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS,
At a stated Term of the District Court of the United States of America for the Western District of Arkansas, begun and holden at the City of Van Buren, within and for the District and Circuit, aforesaid, on the 13th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty five and continued by adjournment from day to day, and including the eighteenth day of November in the same year.
Western District of Arkansas, SS.
The Grand Jurors of the United States of America within and for the District and Circuit aforesaid, on their oath present, that Wyatt Flowers in the State of Arkansas, in the District and Circuit aforesaid, Wyatt Flowers, being an inhabitant of and resident within the United States, and under the protection of the laws of the United States, and owing allegiance and fidelity to the United States, not weighing the duty of his said allegiance, but wickedly devising, and intending the peace and tranquility of the said United States to disturb, and to stir, move and excite insurrection, rebellion and war against the said United States, on the tenth day of January, A.D. 1863, at the county of Franklin in said State of Arkansas, and within the jurisdiction of this Court, unlawfully, falsely, maliciously and traitorously did compass, imagine and intend to raise and levy war, and did raise, levy and carry on war, insurrection and rebellion against the United States: and in order to falfill and bring to effect the said traitorous compassings, imaginations and intentions of him the said Wyatt Flowers, afterwards, to wit, on the tenth day of December, A.D. 1863, at the county of Franklin in said State of Arkansas, and within the jurisdiction of this Court, with a great multitude of persons, (whose names to the grand inquest aforesaid are at present unknown), to the number of thirty persons and upwards, armed and arrayed in a warlike manner, that is to say, with guns, swords, dirks and other warlike weapons, as well offensive as defensive, being then and there unlawfully, maliciously and traitorously assembled and gathered together, did falsely and traitorously join and assemble themselves together, against the said United States, and then and there, with force and arms, did falsely and traitorously, and in a hostile and warlike manner, array and dispose themselves against the United States; and then and there, on the tenth day of December, A.D. 1863, at, to wit, the county and State aforesaid, and within the jurisdiction of this Court, in pursuance of such their traitorous intentions and purposes aforesaid, he the said Wyatt Flowers, with the said persons so as aforesaid traitorously assembled, armed and arrayed in manner aforesaid, most wickedly, maliciously and traitorously did ordain, prepare and levy war against the said United States, contrary to the duty of the allegiance and fidelity of the said Wyatt Flowers, against the peace and dignity of the United States, and contrary to the form of the statute of the United States in such case made and provided.
And the Jurors aforesaid, on their oath aforesaid, do further present, that on the 14th day of April, A.D. 1861, and long before, and continually from thence hitherto, unto and 'till the first day of May, A.D. 1865, an open and public war was waged and carried on between the United States of America, and certain persons within certain States thereof, to wit, the States of South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, North Carolina and Virginia, who then and there incited, set on foot, and engaged in an armed rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States Government, and in such rebellion pretended to assume and exercise certain powers of government, within the limits of the said United States, which they styled the Confederate States Government, and under which pretended style of Government, such open and public war was waged and carried on, by the persons aforesaid, against the authority of the United States of America and the laws thereof, and, that Wyatt Flowers of the county of Franklin in the State of Arkansas, and a citizen of the United States, well knowing the premises, but not regarding the duty of his allegiance, but as a traitor against the United States, and wholly withdrawing the allegiance, fidelity and obedience, which every citizen of the said United States of right ought to bear towards the Government, people, and laws thereof, and conspiring, contriving and intending, by all the means in his power, to aid and assist the persons exercising the powers of said pretended government of the so-called Confederate States, in the State aforesaid, and being enemies of the said United States, and the laws thereof, in the prosecution of the said war against the United States, heretofore, and during the said war, to wit, on the tenth day of June, A.D. 1863, aforesaid, and on divers other days and times, as well before as after that day, the said Wyatt Flowers, with force and arms, to wit, the county of Franklin, in the State of Arkansas, maliciously and traitorously, did adhere to assist, engage with, and give aid and comfort to the said persons exercising the said powers of the so-called and pretended Confederate States Government, in the States aforesaid, then being enemies of the said Government and laws of the United States; and that in the prosecution, performance and execution of this the said Wyatt Flowers's treason and traitorous inciting, adhering to, assisting or engaging in such rebellion or insurrection, and to fulfill, perfect and bring the same to effect, he, the said Wyatt Flowers as such traitor as aforesaid, during the said war, to wit, on the tenth day of June, A.D. 1863 aforesaid, and on divers other days and times, as well before as after that day, at the county of Franklin the State of Arkansas, with force and arms, maliciously and traitorously did conspire, consult, consent and agree with one Jefferson Davis, one Robert E. Lee, and divers other false traitors, whose names are to the Jurors aforesaid unknown, to aid and assist, and to seduce, coerce and procure others, citizens of the said United States, to aid and assist the said persons engaged in the rebellion or insurrection aforesaid, and exercising the powers of said pretended government of the so-called Confederate States, within the States aforesaid, and being enemies to the United States as aforesaid, in a hostile invasion of the dominions of the United States, and in the prosecution of the said rebellion and war against the said United States; against the peace and dignity of the said United States, and contrary to the form of the Statute of the United States, in such case made and provided.
Jw. Young
Acting United States District Attorney
for the Western District of Arkansas
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Appearing in person before the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Arkansas in May term, 1866, Wyatt Flowers said that the United States "ought not further to prosecute the said indictment against him, the said Wyatt Flowers, because he says, that on the 27th day of April 1866, before George C Alden, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Franklin County, in the State of Arkansas, he, the said Wyatt Flowers, did take and subscribe the oath prescribed by Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, in his Public Proclamation of general amnesty and pardon", etc.
We find no record of the ultimate outcome of the case, but history tells us that most of the small fry like Wyatt Flowers who were initially prosecuted in Arkansas were ultimately let off. And Flowers was definitely alive as late as early 1876, when his daughter Sarah Ann Flowers was conceived.
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Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Abt 1814 - Aft 1876 (~ 63 years)
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