Brooks-Baxter War

Troops supporting Joseph Brooks in the Brooks-Baxter War, an armed conflict between the supporters of Brooks and those of Elisha Baxter, rivals for the governorship; April/May 1874.

Soldiers and their supporters gathered in front of large marble building with four columns

Courtesy of the Arkansas State Archives

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Time Period

Civil War through Reconstruction (1861 - 1874)

Category

Events / Military Science / Post Civil War

Type

Event

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