Burrill B. Battle

Burrill Bunn Battle (October 24, 1838 – December 21, 1917) was a justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court from 1885 to 1910.

[1] At the outbreak of the American Civil War he enlisted as a private in the artillery of the Confederate States Army, where he "serve under Gens.

[3] After the war, Battle resumed the practice of the law at Lewisville, moving to Washington, in Hempstead County, in 1869.

This continued until 1885, when Battle was elected Associate Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge John R. Eakin.

Battle was continually re-elected until his voluntary retirement in 1911, at the expiration of his fourth term.