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Benjamin Franklin Nutt was hanged by Southern sympathizers for fleeing being conscripted into the Confederate Army near Fordyce, Arkansas.
Charles Lewis Nutt served in Company H Mississippi Infantry as a Private.
Goerge W. Nutt served as a 2nd sergant in the CSA, 30th Arkansas Infantry, also served under CAptain Kukendall. He also served with the 5th Regiment of the trans-Mississippi-Arkansas Infantry. His family was supporters of the Union and he entered the Grand Army of the Republic as a private in Company H under Captain Murdock on December 12, 1864, enlisting in Stoddard County.
John Nutt served in the CSA in Company K of Colonel Grinstead's Regiment if Infantry that operated in Arkansas and Louisiana.
Martin Van Beuren Nutt served in the Union Army as a Private in Company F and Company A, enlisting in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. This was a Regiment of Calvalry volunteers. Later he transferred to #11 headquaters in Missouri.
Newton J. Nutt enlisted in the Confederate Army September 1, 1863.
Robert G. Nutt was a northern sympathizer and owned a mill and gin. He wanted to continue doing so when the war broke out. Harassement necissitated his enlistment in the Confederate Army in May, in 1863. He enlisted under Captain McMillen in Little Rock, Arkansas. In traveling to his first assignment, he became seriously ill and was left behind enroute to Monroe, Louisiana. He recovered and returned to Dallas County, Arkansas
Robert McCown Nutt enlisted on the 8th of July, 1862 in the CSA in Green County Arkansas, serving in the 30th Arkansas Infantry, Company F. He also served as a teammaster for McNeil's Reigiment under Captain Kukendall. family tradition holds his service was not voluntary as it was well know the Nutt brothers did not have sympathies with the Confederate States.
Robert Pleasant Nutt served in Company A as a Private, 7th Mississippi Calvary.
Sampson Nutt enlisted in the Confederate Army June 23, 1862
William Grainville Nutt enlisted in the 79th Union Regiment E.M.M. Company E as a Corporal under Captain J.W. Druru on May 30, 1864. He was living at Cape Girardeau, Missouri at the time of his enlistment.
William and Mary MCCowen Nutt's daughter, Elizabeth Nutt, married Benjamin Spear. Family history relates this story during the Civil War when Benjamin and Elizabeth were living in Southern Arkansas. They had a son named Sampson McCown Spear, who was living in Dallas County Arkansas in 1850. Sampson, his brother in law, Danny Ray and his cousin Ben Nutt formed a pack. They were going to evade conscription into the Confederate Army and join forces with the Union Army. Sampson and Dan decided they would try to make the Union line on horseback with their families following in wagons withtheir megar belonings. Unfortunally, they were closely pursued by neighbord who's sympathy lay with the Confederacy. A gun battle ensued where Dan Ray was shot and then hanged on the spot. They took Sampson as a prisnor and returned him to Hampton< Arkansas where he was hanged as well. In the meantime the wives and children were still headed towards Union lines in wagons when they were intercepted with news of the gun battle and capture of Sampson. Sampson's wife quickly made her way back towards Hampton only to find he had been hung before she arrived. A note was found in his pocket dated, May 11, 1863.
"My Dear Wife and Children: It is now seven o'clock at night and in two hours my soul will be in enternity, tried and condemned by a jury of 21 citizens to death by hanging for the unfortunate cause I have pursued since last January. My dying request is that my boys live an upright, honorable and industrious life and never rebel against the country that gave them birth, and I want you to come back to our place in Calhoun County and if you my wife and children live such a life as is honorable and virtuous, you will ever have friends and protection. And my little girls, obey your mother and render her all the assistance you can. Adieu, Adieu and try to meet me in the other world. Yours Affectionally, S.M. Speer"
