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Crescent moon and stars on red flag with text in white

15th (NW) Arkansas Flag

white crescent moon and stars on red flag

17th Infantry Flag

Line drawing of a multistory church building with spires

1870s Bethel AME Church

Front page of Arkansas Constitution with text and State Seal

1874 Constitution

1st and 15th Infantry Regiment Flag

Flag with stars on blue field in upper left corner and text on red and white stripes

22nd/35th Arkansas Infantry (CS) Flag

Framed red white and blue flag with star in center of circle of stars on blue field

2nd Arkansas Infantry Flag

Damaged Confederate flag with stars and bars on red field in upper left corner and text on faded white background

6th and 7th Infantry Regiment Flag

6th Infantry Flag

Striped flag with stars in circle with star in the middle on blue section with text on it

6th Volunteer Infantry Flag

8th and 19th Infantry Regiment Flag

"Action at Des Arc Bayou" historical marker sign

Action at Des Arc Bayou Memorial

"Cleveland County Battle of Mark's Mill" sign

Action at Marks' Mills Marker

Cars and taxis parked in front of airport administrative building with tower

Adams Field Control Tower and Administration Building

White man with long hair and beard in suit

Charles W. Adams

"The Late Colonel Anderson Gordon" newspaper clipping

Gordon Anderson Death

Bearded white man in military uniform with sword posing next to banister

Christopher Columbus Andrews

White man with beard standing in military uniform

Christopher Columbus Andrews

"Loss of the Steamer Arkadelphia City" newspaper clipping

Arkadelphia City Story

"Arkadelphia female college" newspaper clipping

Arkadelphia Female College Ad

Two story brick home with small stoop in large tree shade by street parked car

Arkadelphia Freedmen's Bureau

ten dollar note from "Arkansas Treasury Warrant The State of Arkansas will pay ten dollars to bearer with interest at eight per centum per annum to be paid in the order of their number"

Arkansas Civil War Currency

Full front page of The Arkansas Freeman newspaper

The Arkansas Freeman

Historical marker in foreground with building and group of people in background

Arkansas Post Marker

Drawing of white man in flowing jacket and skirt holding large knife. At the bottom it says "Is not your Government more magnanimous than to hunt down women and children?"

Arkansas Toothpick

Print of white man violinist on horse dancing partner women children dogs outside cabin door sign "whisky"

Arkansas Traveler Print

older White man with long mustache in military uniform

Alexander Asboth

White man with mustache in military uniform

George S. Avery

White man with mustache in military uniform

Nelson P. Baker

White man with beard in suit and bow tie

White man with beard standing in military uniform

Achilles Ballard

Steel railroad bridge across a river

Baring Cross Bridge

Single-story buildings alongside spring-fed stream with cattle nearby

Bathhouse Row; 1867

Map of Battery A outside Helena drawn on graph paper

"Battery A" historical marker sign

Battery A Marker

Historical marker sign next to road with bare trees behind it

Battery B Location

"Battery B" historical marker sign

Battery B Marker

Fort walls and cannon with stack of balls next to it and metal representation of a soldier

Cannon with balls and interpretation panel in recreated fort

Battery C Cannon

Overgrown bluff with bare trees and buildings in the background

Battery C Location

"Battery C" historical marker sign

Battery C Marker

Map of "Battery D Helena" drawn on graph paper

Single-story houses with multistory house behind it and hillside covered with bare trees

Battery D Location

"Battery D" historical marker sign

Battery D Marker

Print illustration battleships attack shoreline bunkers soldiers town on cliff background

Battle of Arkansas Post

Steam powered ironclad boats attacking a fort

Battle of Arkansas Post

Print illustration soldiers waving white flags with opposing forces crossing trench waving U.S. flags.

Battle of Arkansas Post

Soldiers posing in line wearing hats with buildings cabins tents on hillside in background

Battle of Arkansas Post Troops

Drawing of soldiers on horseback charging with trees, buildings, and smoke in the background

Battle of Honey Springs

Soldiers on river bank between trees point and fire their guns at a steamboat on the river with mountains in background

Battle of Palarm

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