Belleville in Sevier County, Arkansas — The American South (West South Central)

Sevier County in the Civil War

Photographed by Mark Hilton, August 2, 2018

1. Sevier County in the Civil War Marker

Inscription. While no fighting took place in Sevier Co. during the Civil War, local men served in Confederate units. Men gathered at Belleville Church as part of Pettus’ Battalion of State Troops, marching to Arkadelphia under Gov. Harris Flanagin’s General Order No. 6. Local men fought at Wilson’s Creek in 1861. Sevier Co. men served in the 2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles, 12th, 19th and 24th Arkansas Infantry, Crawford’s Infantry Battalion, 37th Arkansas Militia, and 27th Texas Cavalry. The county’s mineral wealth also served the Confederacy, yielding lead and iron pyrite.

Erected 2015 by Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission, Sevier County Genealogical Society, Arkansas Humanities Council, Arkansas Historic Preservation Program. (Marker Number 136.)

Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Natural Resources • Religion & Religious Structures • War, US Civil. In addition, it is included in the Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission series list. A significant historical year for this entry is 1861.

Location. 33° 56.212′ N, 94° 10.197′ W. Marker is in Belleville, Arkansas, in

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Sevier County. It is on Arkansas Route 317 0.3 miles east of U.S. 59/71, on the left when traveling east. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Lockesburg AR 71846, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Arkansas’ Gulf Coastal Plain

and in Caddo Territory.

It is also in the American South,

specifically in the Upper South,

and in the Piney Woods.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain,

the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

the Louisiana Purchase,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 6 other markers are within 14 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Sevier County Seat of Justice (approx. 12 miles away); In Appreciation of J. DeGoeijen (approx. 12 miles away); Anderson Ferry (approx. 12½ miles away); Will Reed Farm Home (approx. 12½ miles away); Original Site of Little River County Seat (approx. 12½ miles away); Mills Family Story (approx. 13.7 miles away).

Also see . . . Arkansas Preservation website on the history of the Belleville United Methodist Church.

View of marker and Old Belleville Church looking east. image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mark Hilton, August 2, 2018

2. View of marker and Old Belleville Church looking east.

(Submitted on August 5, 2018, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama.)

View of marker, Belleville United Methodist Church and cemetery. image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mark Hilton, August 2, 2018

3. View of marker, Belleville United Methodist Church and cemetery.

Credits. This page was last revised on August 5, 2018. It was originally submitted on August 5, 2018, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama. This page has been viewed 747 times since then and 56 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on August 5, 2018, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama.