A large force of black Union soldiers was attacked while foraging for corn near Poison Spring in this state, forcing the main Union army back from Camden and into a delaying action at Jenkin's Ferry on the Saline River.
A large force of black Union soldiers was attacked while foraging for corn near Poison Spring in this state, forcing the main Union army back from Camden and into a delaying action at Jenkin's Ferry on the Saline River. The town of Washington served as this state's temporary capital during the war after the loss of Reed's Bridge across Bayou Meto sealed the fate of its original capital and the southernmost hills of Crowley's Ridge provided strong defensive locations for the redoubts that defended Helena from a July 4th, 1863 attack. Confederate cavalry commanders Jo Shelby and John Marmaduke launched several raids across the Boston Mountains in this state while a Union army that marched more than 100 miles in just three days was forced to cross the Illinois River near Cane Hill in a December 1862 battle in this state ?. Union General Samuel Curtis was able to stop a Confederate assault centered on the namesake landmark just off the Bentonville Detour at the Battle of Pea Ridge in, for 10 points, what U.S. state?
A large force of black Union soldiers was attacked while foraging for corn near Poison Spring in this state, forcing the main Union army back from Camden and into a delaying action at Jenkin's Ferry on the Saline River.
{Arkansas}