Federal troops captured Little Rock in early September 1863, and the exhausted soldiers found Arkansas ... The battle at Prairie D'Ane is believed to be one of the few during the Civil War ...

Battle of Pea Ridge The Battle of Pea Ridge, March 7-8, 1862, played a pivotal role in securing Missouri for the Union and opened Arkansas to ... as it was for Civil War soldiers.

The cabin may even have witnessed a Civil War battle. “The footprint of the log cabin is 18′ X 20′,” the museum explained in a Facebook post. “The cabin had been added onto and the exter ...

The site of one of the biggest Civil War battles west of the Mississippi doesn ... Pea Ridge National Military Park is located in northwestern Arkansas near the town of Bentonville (the home ...

Tom Wing, a University of Arkansas - Fort Smith historian and Civil War reenactor, has portrayed both the Confederate and Union sides in blue and in gray at past Cabin Creek battle reenactments. There ...

Missouri was a border state during the American Civil War, and Missourians fought ... in Kentucky from reinforcing their armies in Arkansas. The battle was a back-and-forth affair lasting for ...

The Battle of Pea Ridge was fought in Northwest ... is now a U.S. National Park and is one of the most intact Civil War battlefields in the country.It's also an area popular with ghost hunters.The ...

most less than famous, but among them Union's notoriously "political" John A. McClernand, who probably did his best work in Arkansas. Any serious student of the Civil War will find this a valuable ...

C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their “2012 LCV Cities Tour” in Little Rock, Arkansas ... The Civil War Awakening, talked about the importance of western battles ...

Author Mark Christ talked about his book Civil War Arkansas 1863: The Battle for a State. C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their… read more Author Mark Christ talked about ...

(AP) - Two battlefields in Arkansas are among 10 selected by the Civil War Trust to get individual ... The trust says 10 battles in those locations accounted for more than 43,000 casualties ...

BELLA VISTA -- Dale Phillips of the Bella Vista Civil War Round Table ... During the battle at Baton Rouge, Confederates had a secret weapon. An ironclad called the Arkansas was to come down ...