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June 2, 2010
Named in honor of Union general Samuel R. Curtis, Fort Curtis was an earthen and timber redoubt constructed in 1862 to guard the western approach to Helena (Phillips County). Its armament of two thirty-two-pound and five twenty-four-pound guns was instrumental in the repulse of the Confederate forces in the July 4, 1863, Battle of Helena.