1861 - 1874

Civil War through Reconstruction
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112th United States Colored Infantry (US)
aka: Fifth Arkansas Volunteer Infantry (African Descent)
The 112th United States Colored Infantry was a United States Colore...
113th United States Colored Infantry (US)
aka: Sixth Arkansas Volunteer Infantry (African Descent)
The 113th United States Colored Infantry, part of the United States...
Charles William Adams (1817–1878)
Charles William Adams served as a Confederate general in Arkansas. A planter and lawyer from Helena (Phillips ...
Samuel Adams (1805–1850)
Samuel Adams served as acting governor of Arkansas from April 29, 1844, to November 9, 1844. As president of t...
American Missionary Association
The American Missionary Association (AMA) was a nondenominational abolitionist society dedicated to providing ...
James Anderson (Lynching of)
On December 5, 1880 (one source gives the date as December 4), an African American man named James Anderson wa...
Christopher Columbus Andrews (1829–1923)
As a Union brigadier general, Christopher Columbus Andrews distinguished himself in numerous military campaign...
Arkadelphia City [Steamboat]
The Arkadelphia City was a Ouachita River steamboat that suffered a disastrous boiler explosion on April 25, 1...
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...
Skirmish at Arkadelphia
After capturing Little Rock (Pulaski County) and Fort Smith (Sebastian County) in September 1863, Union forces...
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...
Arkansas Freeman
The Arkansas Freeman, which began publication on August 21, 1869, was the first newspaper in Arkansas printed ...
Arkansas Mounted Rifles [Civil War]
After Arkansas seceded from the Union on May 6, 1861, state troops were mustered into the Confederate army in ...
Arkansas Peace Society
The Arkansas Peace Society was a loose affiliation of local anti-Confederate groups that formed in response to...
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...
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...
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...
Scout to Arkansas River
aka: Skirmish at Threkeld's Ferry
  While northwestern Arkansas was tentatively under Union cont...
Arkansas State Troops (CS)
aka: Army of Arkansas
On May 20, 1861, the Arkansas Secession Convention passed an ordina...
Alexander Asboth (1811–1868)
Born in Hungary, Alexander Sandor Asboth served in the Hungarian army and then in the Union army during the Ci...
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...
Augusta Expedition (December 7–8, 1864)
Fearing that several Confederate guerrillas and partisan bands were operating in northeastern Arkansas, Brigad...
Augusta Expedition (January 4–27, 1865)
In an effort to continue to conduct expeditions into northeastern Arkansas to disrupt Confederate and guerrill...
Skirmish at Augusta
Attempting to locate and destroy Confederate brigadier general Joseph Shelby somewhere in the Little Red River...
Augustus Garland House
Constructed in 1873, the Augustus Garland House was home to multiple politicians and other notables from Arkan...
B. M. Runyan [Steamboat]
The steamboat B. M. Runyan was carrying a regiment of Union soldiers when it struck a snag in the Mississippi ...
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...
Batesville Expedition
While escorting a treasury agent to Batesville (Independence County), a detachment of the Second Arkansas Cava...