Curtis Video

Our First Movie is a Tribute to my Great Grandfather and there was a song wrote about him. At age 12 he shot a Jayhawker right between the eyes with a cap and pall pistol in Stone County, Arkansas.

   

        Jim Berry was too young and too small to be in the army in the Civil War, but too old and too big to be outside. He could shoot a gun, was an excellent woodsman, and a threat to the desperado's who lived by stealing and by robbing the people. Little Jim Berry helped to organize the Home Guard in this section of the Ozarks. I knew him when he was an old man. He said, "We organized to fight the desperadoes and the Jayhawker's." Jim Berry killed several outlaws during the Civil War. I have his old Cap and Ball Colts Pistol that he carried through the war, and this same old gun had been on the USS Susquehanna when Admiral Perry opened Japan in 1853. By Jimmy Driftwood - was a recording artist, composed, singer, storyteller, teacher, instrumentalist, and historian.

   

We need Civil War reenactors, Elderly and young actors and actresses. This is in the Civil War era so clothing for this time period. We will need a photo in the period Costume. A short bio - City and State born, school and training, any Military info.

 

The caricatures are - Col. John O. Shelby, Confederate Calvary leader, he gave the gun to Jim Berry, Christopher Columbus Denton commander of the Stone County Home Guard, Jonathon Moody, Ham Branscum, John Goonight, Carol Meriman, Brad Ramsey, Jim Berry. There were 15 members.

Confederate soldiers - Colonel J.T. Coffee and commander of Company A of "the Coffee Recruits, Captain Bill Dark,

Actresses - Lucindy Thompson Pierce, Mrs. William Moore, Aunt Cath Cole, Mrs. Branscum, Mrs. Bloodworth, Aunt Jane Stevenson, Aunt Martha Gammill, Mary Ann Branscum, Aunt Sally Smith, Rachel Adeline George,

 

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