The Ephesus Cemetery, listed in the National Register of Historic Places on January 22, 2009, was established for the members and families of the Ephesus Primitive Baptist Church. Thirteen years before the platting of the railroad town of Emmet, ten . . . — — Map (db m184499) HM
You are standing where, after four days of
skirmishing on Prairie D' Ane northeast of here,
Union troops of John Thayer's Frontier Division
guarded the rear of Frederick Steele's army as it
advanced toward Camden in search of supplies.
On April . . . — — Map (db m202467) HM
Action at Moscow
After skirmishing for several days at Prairie D’Ane, Gen. Frederick Steele turned his starving Union army away from Louisiana and headed toward Camden to seek supplies. Confederate cavalry under T.P. Dockery and S.B. Maxey . . . — — Map (db m200730) HM
The first church in Prescott was a Cumberland Presbyterian congregation organized in April 1874, six months before the city was incorporated. A congregation of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS) followed in 1879, and land for its . . . — — Map (db m221261) HM
Thomas Chipman McRae, born in Mount Holly (Union County), Arkansas, became a courier for the Confederate Army at age twelve, following his father's early death. He attended area schools and later graduated from Washington & Lee University law . . . — — Map (db m184504) HM
Gen. Sterling Price’s Confederate army held strong earthworks on the western edge of Prairie D’Ane when Gen. Frederick Steele’s Union troops approached on April 10, 1864, and dug their own trenches. After heavy fighting on the 10th, the combatants . . . — — Map (db m96559) HM
April 7 - Confederate General Sterling Price arrives at Prairie D'Ane to take personal charge of 5,000 men.
April 10 - After Thayer and his Frontier Division's late arrival on April 9, Steele's command starts from the Cornelius Farm and . . . — — Map (db m274828) HM
Maj. Gen. Sterling Price, Commander District of Arkansas
Escort: 14th Missouri Battalion
Brig. Gen James Fleming Fagan, Commander Fagan's Cavalry Division (Three brigades)
Brig. Gen. William Lewis Cabell, Cabell's Brigade . . . — — Map (db m274894) HM
A large, open grassland of some 5,000 acres, Prairie D'Ane was a landmark in southwest Arkansas. It was created through centuries of fires, started by natural forces, such as lightning strikes, and by people. Native Americans used fire to maintain . . . — — Map (db m274815) HM
With the United States embroiled in the Civil War, Union leaders feared Mexico might seek to re-take Texas. The Red River Campaign hoped to thwart this possibility and cut off Texas as a source of men and supplies. Union Major General N. P. Banks . . . — — Map (db m274827) HM
Maj. Gen. Frederick Steele, Commander
Department of Arkansas and VII Corps
Escort: 3rd Illinois Cavalry, Co. D
15th Illinois Cavalry, Co. H
Brig. Gen. Frederick C. Salomon - Commander Third Division---Three brigades and . . . — — Map (db m274891) HM
