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Men with weapons and flags in military uniforms charging each other amid clouds of smoke

Battle of Pea Ridge

Blue and gray clad armies on horses with guns charging each other on battlefield with flags, cannons, bare trees, and smoke

Battle of Pea Ridge

drawing of white men with guns bayonets and flags charging into battle

Battle of Pea Ridge

White man in black suit with red curtains in the background

White man with beard in suit and tie

grayscale drawing of soldiers marching down a bank to board a riverboat with two portraits in opposite corners of Elisha Baxter and Joseph Brooks "Anarchy in Arkansas"

Elisha Baxter's Forces at Pine Bluff

Map showing troop locations and movements

Stone carved with "Battle of Little Rock"

Bayou Fourche Commemorative Marker

White man with mustache in gray military uniform sitting in chair

"Execution of Willis Beard" newspaper clipping

Beard Execution Story

White man with beard and mustache in military uniform

P. G. T. Beauregard

Front view of two-story house with balcony and covered porch with framed windows and door

Benjamin Clayton Black House

White man with long mustache and short beard in suit

Old white man standing holding his hat in his left hand with vegetation behind him

Portrait of white man with mustache in suit holding a violin

Louis L. Betts Painting

two white men in hats, one standing and another sitting along the edge of a river with large hill in background

Rocky hillside covered in trees at its base with dirt road and car

"Mississippi County Shooting of Sheriff Murray by Judge Fitzpatrick" newspaper clipping

Black Hawk War Article

White man with long beard in suit with bow tie

William Perkins Black

portrait of white man in suit

portrait of white woman in dress sitting in chair

white man with beard poses with one hand inside military jacket

White man in suit with bushy beard

Small green and cream house with covered porch with red accents

Boone-Murphy-Moore House

man with swept-back long hair and mustache in suit and small bow tie

"Brown Brewer" newspaper clipping

Brewer Execution Story

Soldiers and their supporters gathered in front of large marble building with four columns

Brooks-Baxter War

Cartoon featuring two white men with guns battling over one white woman wearing a sash saying "Arkansas"

Brooks-Baxter War Cartoon

African-American man in military dress holding rifle

White man with curly hair and beard in suit and vest

White man in military garb with beard

William H. Brooks

line drawing of white man with beard in military uniform

Isaac Newton Brown

"Battle of Brownsville" historical marker sign

Brownsville Skirmish

Engraved stone sign shaped like the state of Arkansas with building behind it

Buck Horn Marker

Portrait photo of a seated woman in a formal dress holding a book with a bearded man in a military uniform and sword standing with his hand on her chair

Napoleon and Mary Ann Buford

White man with long beard standing with arms crossed in military uniform with sword on his belt

Napoleon Buford

"Swung Into Eternity" newspaper clipping

Henry Burnett Execution Story

"A Colored Murderer Awaits the Day of Execution" newspaper clipping

Henry Burnett Execution Story

White man with thick beard and mustache in military uniform

"All on one limb" newspaper clipping

Butlerville Lynching Article

white man with beard in military regalia

"From the South" newspaper clipping

Cambridge Steamboat Article

Trees growing in front of two-story brick storefronts on street

Camden Businesses

Old Arkansas map "Route pursued by Army Major General Fred Steele" showing Arkadelphia, Benton, Camden

Camden Expedition Map

Knolls covered in grass dead leaves and trees casting shadows in the sunshine

Camden Water Battery

Concrete picnic table metal grill and round table in field with trees and red roof in the background

Camden Water Battery

Locked cemetery gates with monument visible among the trees

Camp Nelson Confederate Cemetery

Rows of grave markers with trees and flag

Camp White Sulphur Springs Confederate Cemetery

Cemetery behind gate and sign with rope fence with trees

Camp White Sulphur Springs Confederate Cemetery

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