The Battle of Jenkins' Ferry, also known as the Engagement at Jenkins' Ferry, was fought on April 30, 1864, at Jenkins' Ferry, southwest of Little Rock...
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Alexander T. Hawthorn (category American military personnel of the Mexican–American War)
the Spring 1864 Red River Campaign and Battle of Jenkins' Ferry, he commanded the 4th Arkansas Infantry Brigade of the 1st Arkansas Infantry Division. Meanwhile...
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for Horace Randal, a Confederate brigadier general killed at the Battle of Jenkins Ferry. The reason the county name differs from his is because the bill...
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state park commemorates the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry fought on Saturday, April 30, 1864, during the Red River campaign of the American Civil War. First...
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39th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from public domain works of the United States Government)
the last known colonel of the regiment, serving from January 1864 until April, when he was killed at the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry. He was preceded in command...
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Saline River (Ouachita River tributary) (category Tributaries of the Red River of the South)
at Jenkins' Ferry Historical Monument south of Sheridan which commemorates the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry during the American Civil War. In the days of the...
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9th Missouri Sharpshooter Battalion (category Sharpshooter units and formations of the American Civil War)
the Battle of Pleasant Hill in early April. After Pleasant Hill, the battalion returned to Arkansas and was engaged at the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry on...
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Thomas James Churchill (category American Civil War prisoners of war)
significant role in the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry and was promoted to major-general on March 17, 1865. Churchill was elected Treasurer of Arkansas in 1873. He...
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In the April 30 Battle of Jenkins' Ferry, men from the 2nd Kansas Colored Infantry Regiment murdered Confederate soldiers in revenge of the massacre at...
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James Camp Tappan (category Speakers of the Arkansas House of Representatives)
back into Arkansas to meet Major-General Frederick Steele at the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry. He also took part in Price's Missouri Expedition. After the war...
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8th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate) (category Units and formations of the Confederate States Army from Missouri)
attack against Steele on April 30 at the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry. For the remainder of 1864 and the first half of 1865, the unit was stationed at several...
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John George Walker (category People of Missouri in the American Civil War)
Steele at the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry on April 30, 1864, about 30 miles south of Little Rock, Arkansas. As Steele fled northward after the battle, clearly...
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Thomas Pleasant Dockery (category People of Arkansas in the American Civil War)
participated in the Battle of Mount Elba, Battle of Prairie D'Ane, Battle of Poison Spring Battle of Marks' Mills and the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry. During this...
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William Read Scurry (category People of Texas in the American Civil War)
Steele, who was about to invade Texas. Scurry was killed at the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry on April 30, 1864, and was buried in the State Cemetery at Austin...
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Prattsville, Arkansas (redirect from History of Prattsville, Arkansas)
south to cross at Jenkins Ferry, where his Union Army were engaged by Confederate Troops in what is called the Battle of Jenkins Ferry. Gen. Steele's Camden...
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36th Iowa Infantry Regiment (category Units and formations of the Union army from Iowa)
command of Captain Marmaduke Darnall of the Forty-third Indiana, and these men fought bravely with the Casual Detachment in the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry. Some...
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1st Missouri Field Battery (category Artillery units and formations of the American Civil War)
up with Steele at the river crossing and attacked, starting the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry. Ruffner's Battery, along with Lesueur's Missouri Battery, supported...
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Dandridge McRae (category American lawyers admitted to the practice of law by reading law)
formed part of the force under General Sterling Price. They participated in the Battle of Marks' Mills and the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry, forcing the...
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George Washington Custis Lee (category Presidents of the University of Maryland, College Park)
April 8, 1864, by General E. Kirby Smith. Mortally wounded at the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry, April 30, 1864; died, May 2, 1864. Not duly appointed by Confederate...
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19th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Dockery's) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from public domain works of the United States Government)
the rest of Dockery's Brigade, saw extensive action during the Camden Expedition at the Battles of Prairie D'Ane, Marks' Mills, and Jenkins Ferry. The 1864...
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43rd Indiana Infantry Regiment (category Units and formations of the Union army from Indiana)
said that the rains of Heaven, which fell during the night and morning of the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry, overflowing the bottoms of the Saline River, rendering...
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Arkansas in the American Civil War (category Military history of the Confederate States of America)
University of Arkansas Press, 2000. ISBN 978-1-55728-591-1. Bearss, Edwin C. (1967). Steele's Retreat from Camden and the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry. Little...
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16th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate) (category Units and formations of the Confederate States Army from Missouri)
then fought at the Battle of Pleasant Hill on April 9, 1864, and at the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry on April 30. On June 8, 1865, the men of the regiment were...
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26th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (category Units and formations of the Confederate States Army from Arkansas)
following engagements: Battle of Prairie Grove Battle of Devil's Backbone Battle of Pleasant Hill Battle of Jenkins' Ferry List of Confederate units from...
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Leola, Arkansas (redirect from History of Leola, Arkansas)
on his rear flank as they approached the Jenkins' Ferry on the Saline River. A bloody battle of Jenkins' Ferry ensued. The Union troops barely crossed...
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William F. Cloud (category American military personnel of the Mexican–American War)
the field at the battle of Devil's Backbone. In 1864 he commanded a cavalry brigade under John M. Thayer at the battle of Jenkins' Ferry. He served as aide-de-camp...
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known in the North as Battle of Antietam and Second Battle of Bull Run were referred to as the Battle of Sharpsburg and the Battle of Manassas, respectively...
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1st Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Union) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion)
including the 1st Arkansas. In the opening hours of the Battle of Jenkins Ferry, the regiment remained north of the fighting but General Thayer later sent them...
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John Milton Thayer (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress)
action at the Battle of Prairie D'Ane. He commanded the rearguard of Frederick Steele's force at the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry, battling Confederate troops...
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Mosby Monroe Parsons (category Democratic Party members of the Missouri House of Representatives)
Camden Expedition in Arkansas, including participation at the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry. Parsons was appointed a major general by Trans-Mississippi Departmental...
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