Person:Thomas Curtis (64)

Apparently died in Civil War:

On April 10, Union Major General Fred Steele's forces, combined with Brig. Gen. John M. Thayer's division, marched south from the Cornelius Farm. They soon encountered a Confederate line of battle at Prairie D'Ane and attacked, driving it back about a mile before being checked. Skirmishing continued throughout the afternoon of April 11, forcing Steele to divert line of march forces away from Shreveport toward Camden. Maj. Gen. Sterling Price's Confederates returned to Prairie D'Ane on April 13, falling upon Steele's rearguard under Thayer. After a four-hour battle, Price disengaged, and Steele's column continued to Camden, occupying the city. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Prairie_D%27Ane

In the Civil War, Nevada County saw no fighting until the spring of 1864 and the Union army's Camden Expedition, the Arkansas prong of the ill-fated Red River Campaign to defeat Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi, who was headquartered at Shreveport, Louisiana. Nevada County has two national historic landmarks related to the war: the Elkin's Ferry and the Prairie D'Ane battle sites. Elkin's Ferry on the Little Missouri about ten miles from Prescott marks the point where the Union army crossed from Clark County into Hempstead County on April 3–4, 1864, and encountered stiff Confederate resistance. The Prairie D'Ane Battlefield (a.k.a. Prairie De Ann Battlefield) is near Prescott and was the site of skirmishing on April 9–12, 1864. The scattered antebellum village of Moscow just outside Prescott was the site of a rearguard action after the Skirmish at Prairie D'Ane. http://www.collins-battery.org/prairie2.html