State Parks
Marks’ Mills Battlefield State Park
Directions: Junction Ark. 8 East
The site of an April 25, 1864 fight in which Confederate Calvary ambushed and captured a Union supply train along with the brigade of Federal troops guarding it, forcing General Frederick Steele to abandon Camden and return to Little Rock due to a lack of supplies; part of the Red River Campaign. The area, reportedly heavily wooded at the time of the battle, appears much the same way today.
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Getting There & Details
- Hours
- (501) 682-1191
- Website
- www.arkansasstateparks.com/redrivercampaign
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