Little Rock and Fort Steele

Fort Steele is shown as a prominent part of Little Rock’s landscape between Arch and Gaines streets on the city’s southern border in this 1871 birds-eye view of the capital.

Drawn map showing city as from an elevated spot with street grid and steamboats along the river on the bottom edge

Courtesy of the CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Central Arkansas Library System

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Time Period

Civil War through Reconstruction (1861 - 1874)

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Locations / Military Science

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Place

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Drawn map showing city as from an elevated spot with street grid and steamboats along the river on the bottom edge Fort Steele