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Arkansas in the American Civil War | HearLore
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Arkansas in the American Civil War
Arkansas in the American Civil WarOn the 15th of June 1836, Arkansas entered the Union as its twenty-fifth state. It arrived as a slaveholding territory where most land remained wild and…
Battle of Pea RidgeIn the spring of 1862, Brigadier General Samuel R. Curtis led approximately 10,250 soldiers and fifty artillery pieces into Benton County, Arkansas.
Trans-Mississippi theater of the American Civil WarThe year 1862 brought a specific number to the violence in Missouri. Nearly twenty-seven thousand Missourians died in guerrilla warfare that tore the state…