Caddo Valley in Clark County, Arkansas — The American South (West South Central)

Confederate Manufacturing
⎯⎯⎯
The Military Road

Confederate Manufacturing Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Duane Hall, July 30, 2016

1. Confederate Manufacturing Marker

Inscription. Confederate Manufacturing Arkadelphia was a manufacturing center for Confederate Arkansas early in the Civil War. Gen. Thomas Hindman established a powder works and an arsenal in 1862, producing guns, cannon, bullets, shells, wagons and caissons. Tanning yards provided harnesses, bridles, saddles, knapsacks and shoes. Tons of salt were produced at Arkadelphia, and a chemical laboratory there helped create such medicines as calomel, castor oil, spirits of nitre and tinctures of iron, with citizens providing the plants, weeds and herbs needed as raw materials to make the medicine.

The Military Road The Military Road, following the route of the old Southwest Trail, passed through the heart of Clark County. Both Confederate and Union troops used the road. Gen. Sterling Price’s Confederates retreated down the road after Little Rock fell in September 1863. Gen. Frederick Steele’s Union army took the road during the Camden Expedition and stayed in Arkadelphia March 29 to April 1, 1864, before heading southwest. Confederate troops skirmished with Steele at Terre Noire Creek and Okolona before the Union army left the county

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at Elkins’ Ferry on the Little Missouri.

Erected 2015 by Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission, Clark County Historical Association, Arkansas Natural and Cultural Resources Council. (Marker Number 65.)

Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Industry & Commerce • Roads & Vehicles • 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 1862.

Location. 34° 10.843′ N, 93° 4.232′ W. Marker is in Caddo Valley, Arkansas, in Clark County. It is on Valley Street (U.S. 67) 0.1 miles south of Malvern Road, on the left when traveling south. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 124 Valley St, Arkadelphia AR 71923, 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

The Military Road Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Duane Hall, July 30, 2016

2. The Military Road Marker

itself in what was once 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 8 other markers are within 5 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: W.D. and Ida Feaster (approx. 3.8 miles away); W.H. Young House (approx. 4.1 miles away); Peake High School (approx. 4.1 miles away); Duncan's Addition (approx. 4.1 miles away); Sloan School (approx. 4.2 miles away); Rose Hill Cemetery (approx. 4.3 miles away); First Public School in Arkadelphia (approx. 4.3 miles away); Arkadelphia Courthouses (approx. 4.3 miles away).

Confederate Manufacturing / The Military Road Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Duane Hall, July 30, 2016

3. Confederate Manufacturing / The Military Road Marker

View to South Along Valley Street (US 67) image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Duane Hall, July 30, 2016

4. View to South Along Valley Street (US 67)

Marker is on left (east) side of street

Credits. This page was last revised on March 24, 2022. It was originally submitted on August 7, 2016, by Duane Hall of Abilene, Texas. This page has been viewed 1,457 times since then and 58 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on August 7, 2016, by Duane Hall of Abilene, Texas.

Confederate Manufacturing⎯⎯⎯The Military Road

Confederate Manufacturing
⎯⎯⎯
The Military Road