ARKANSAS - STEVEN W. DORSEY - Bio

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Men of Vermont: An Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters and 
Sons of Vermont. Brattleboro, VT: Transcript Publishing Co., 1894.

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Dorsey, Stephen W., was born at Benson, Feb. 28, 1842; received an 
academical education; removed, when a boy, to Oberlin, Ohio, was one 
of the first volunteers in the Union army, in which he served at 
Shiloh, Perryville, Stone River, Chattanooga, and Mission Ridge in 
1864, and was transferred to the Army of the Potomac and took part in 
the battles of the Wilderness and of Cold Harbor, serving until the 
close of the war; returning to Ohio he resumed business with the 
Sandusky Tool Co., was soon chosen its president, and on the same day 
he was elected without his knowledge, president of the Arkansas 
Central Railway Co. Removing to Arkansas he was chosen chairman of the 
Republican county and state committee, was offered a seat in Congress 
by the Republicans [p.53] of the first district, but declined and was 
elected almost unanimously United States senator from Arkansas, as a 
Republican, and took his seat March 4, 1873.