1861 - 1874

Civil War through Reconstruction
View Media (621)
Blue diamond with stars and crossed swords above blue and red text
112th United States Colored Infantry (US)
aka: Fifth Arkansas Volunteer Infantry (African Descent)
The 112th United States Colored Infantry was a United States Colore...
Blue diamond with stars and crossed swords above blue and red text
113th United States Colored Infantry (US)
aka: Sixth Arkansas Volunteer Infantry (African Descent)
The 113th United States Colored Infantry, part of the United States...
White man with long hair and beard in suit
Charles William Adams (1817–1878)
Charles William Adams served as a Confederate general in Arkansas. A planter and lawyer from Helena (Phillips ...
White man with dark hair in suit and bow tie
Samuel Adams (1805–1850)
Samuel Adams served as acting governor of Arkansas from April 29, 1844, to November 9, 1844. As president of t...
African-American children and faculty standing outside single-story brick building
American Missionary Association
The American Missionary Association (AMA) was a nondenominational abolitionist society dedicated to providing ...
"Short Shrift. A Negro outrages a white lady in Pine Bluff" newspaper clipping
James Anderson (Lynching of)
On December 5, 1880 (one source gives the date as December 4), an African American man named James Anderson wa...
Blue diamond with stars and crossed swords above blue and red text
Christopher Columbus Andrews (1829–1923)
As a Union brigadier general, Christopher Columbus Andrews distinguished himself in numerous military campaign...
"Loss of the Steamer Arkadelphia City" newspaper clipping
Arkadelphia City [Steamboat]
The Arkadelphia City was a Ouachita River steamboat that suffered a disastrous boiler explosion on April 25, 1...
"Arkadelphia female college" newspaper clipping
Arkadelphia Male and Female Institute
aka: Arkadelphia Institute
aka: Arkadelphia Female Seminary
aka: Arkadelphia Female College
aka: Arkadelphia Female Academy
Several educational institutions with variations of the name Arkade...
Blue diamond with stars and crossed swords above blue and red text
Skirmish at Arkadelphia
After capturing Little Rock (Pulaski County) and Fort Smith (Sebastian County) in September 1863, Union forces...
White man with beard in suit and bow tie
Seizure of Arkansas Cannon
aka: United States v. Six Boxes of Arms
This court case involved the seizure of a cannon in the North inten...
Full front page of The Arkansas Freeman newspaper
Arkansas Freeman
The Arkansas Freeman, which began publication on August 21, 1869, was the first newspaper in Arkansas printed ...
Portrait of a white man with short dark hair and goatee in a military uniform.
Arkansas Mounted Rifles [Civil War]
After Arkansas seceded from the Union on May 6, 1861, state troops were mustered into the Confederate army in ...
White man in suit and bow tie
Arkansas Peace Society
The Arkansas Peace Society was a loose affiliation of local anti-Confederate groups that formed in response to...
Soldiers posing in line wearing hats with buildings cabins tents on hillside in background
Battle of Arkansas Post
aka: Battle of Fort Hindman
aka: Battle of Post of Arkansas
The Battle of Arkansas Post, also known as the Battle of Fort Hindm...
Blue diamond with stars and crossed swords above blue and red text
Skirmishes at Arkansas River and Prairie Grove
Two related skirmishes that took place in northwestern Arkansas, these events were part of Confederate efforts...
Expedition on the Arkansas River near Little Rock (February 8–9, 1865)
Elements of two regiments of United States Colored Troops (USCT) conducted an expedition to attack Confederate...
White man with handlebar mustache and beard in suit and blue bow tie
Scout on the Arkansas River near Pine Bluff
The Scout on the Arkansas River near Pine Bluff (Jefferson County) was undertaken to determine the location an...
Blue diamond with stars and crossed swords above blue and red text
Scout to Arkansas River
aka: Skirmish at Threkeld's Ferry
  While northwestern Arkansas was tentatively under Union cont...
Blue diamond with stars and crossed swords above blue and red text
Arkansas State Troops (CS)
aka: Army of Arkansas
On May 20, 1861, the Arkansas Secession Convention passed an ordina...
older White man with long mustache in military uniform
Alexander Asboth (1811–1868)
Born in Hungary, Alexander Sandor Asboth served in the Hungarian army and then in the Union army during the Ci...
White man with long hair and beard in long coat
Action at Ashley's Station
aka: Action at Jones' Station
aka: Action at DeValls Bluff
The Action at Ashley’s Station was Confederate Brigadier General ...
Jerry Atkins (Lynching of)
Jerry Atkins, a black man, was murdered in Union County on November 21, 1865, for having allegedly murdered tw...
Blue diamond with stars and crossed swords above blue and red text
Augusta Expedition (December 7–8, 1864)
Fearing that several Confederate guerrillas and partisan bands were operating in northeastern Arkansas, Brigad...
Blue diamond with stars and crossed swords above blue and red text
Augusta Expedition (January 4–27, 1865)
In an effort to continue to conduct expeditions into northeastern Arkansas to disrupt Confederate and guerrill...
Blue diamond with stars and crossed swords above blue and red text
Skirmish at Augusta
Attempting to locate and destroy Confederate brigadier general Joseph Shelby somewhere in the Little Red River...
Two story white wooden house with porch on each floor and pillars
Augustus Garland House
Constructed in 1873, the Augustus Garland House was home to multiple politicians and other notables from Arkan...
"The disaster to the steamer B. M. Runyan" newspaper clipping
B. M. Runyan [Steamboat]
The steamboat B. M. Runyan was carrying a regiment of Union soldiers when it struck a snag in the Mississippi ...
Blue diamond with stars and crossed swords above blue and red text
Affair at Bailey’s
aka: Affair at Crooked Creek
A brief encounter between a Union scouting party and a band of Conf...
Cullen Montgomery Baker (1835–1869)
Cullen Baker was one of the most notorious outlaws in the United States in the period following the Civil War....
Expedition from Batesville after Freeman's Command
The Expedition from Batesville after Freeman’s Command was an attempt by the Union garrison at Batesville (I...
Blue diamond with stars and crossed swords above blue and red text
Batesville Expedition
While escorting a treasury agent to Batesville (Independence County), a detachment of the Second Arkansas Cava...