Jacksonville in Pulaski County, Arkansas — The American South (West South Central)

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Confederates at Bayou Meto

Photographed by Mark Hilton

1. Confederates at Bayou Meto Marker (Marker Missing)

Inscription. Following their defeat at the July 4, 1863, Battle of Helena, Confederate Gen. Sterling Price’s infantry division fell back to Des Arc and Searcy. Price assumed command of the Confederate army in Arkansas on July 23 and Gen. James Fagan took over his division. Fearing that Union commanders were planning a campaign to capture Little Rock, Price chose to bring his troops closer to the capital and ordered Fagan to bring his men – McRae’s and Fagan’s Arkansas brigades and Parsons’ Missourians – to camps near springs north of Bayou Meto in modern Jacksonville.

Erected 2015 by Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission, Reed’s Bridge Battlefield Preservation Society, Stone-Dupree Family, Arkansas Humanities Council, Arkansas Historic Preservation Program. (Marker Number 135.)

Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: War, US Civil. In addition, it is included in the Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission series list. A significant historical date for this entry is July 4, 1863.

Location. Marker is missing. It was located near 34° 51.905′ N, 92° 6.787′ W. Marker was in Jacksonville, Arkansas, in Pulaski County. It was at the intersection of Division Street and South Second Street, on the right when traveling east on Division Street. Touch for map. Marker was at or near this postal address: Division Street, Jacksonville AR 72076, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker was in the Little Rock Metropolitan Area

and in the Quapaw Homeland.

It was also in the American South

and specifically in the Upper South.

Globally, it was in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it found itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

the Louisiana Purchase,

one of the Confederate

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States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this location: Jacksonville, Arkansas (about 800 feet away, measured in a direct line); First Jacksonville School (approx. ¼ mile away); Tom Cory (approx. 0.3 miles away); Governor Homer M. Adkins (approx. 0.4 miles away); Veterans Memorial (approx. half a mile away); In Honor and Remembrance (approx. 0.6 miles away); Memorial Honoring 53 (approx. 0.6 miles away); Arkansas Ordnance Plant (AOP) (approx. 0.6 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Jacksonville.

More about this marker. The Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission has been notified that the marker is missing.
Editor note: As of July, 2024 marker still missing.

Marker was installed next to tree on right. image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mark Hilton, April 9, 2018

2. Marker was installed next to tree on right.

Photo shows marker was there as of October, 2016. image. Click for full size.

3. Photo shows marker was there as of October, 2016.

Marker no longer there. image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mark Hilton, April 9, 2018

4. Marker no longer there.

Credits. This page was last revised on November 1, 2025. It was originally submitted on April 16, 2018, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama. This page has been viewed 497 times since then and 23 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on April 16, 2018, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama.

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