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The Civil War Trust's Civil War Discovery Trail is a heritage tourism program that links more than 600 U.S. Civil War sites in more than 30 states. The program is one of the White House Millennium Council's sixteen flagship National Millennium Trails.
The Battle of Chalk Bluff (May 1 – 2, 1863), also known as the Skirmish at Chalk Bluff, was a military engagement of the American Civil War.The battle was fought near Chalk Bluff, northwest of St. Francis (present-day Clay County, Arkansas), where U.S. Brigadier General William Vandever, commanding the Second Division of the Army of the Frontier, was repulsed in an attempt to prevent ...
The precise location of Chalk Bluff is presently unknown, probably because the site was washed away by hydraulic mining. It is believed to have been about 1 1/2 miles east of Red Dog and located on Chalk Bluff Ridge in the vicinity of the Hussey and Timmens mines which were about a quarter mile west of the present day Chalk Bluff Road. [4]
[2] [note 1] On the first day, the three howitzers were sent to Leetown with the 1st Division under Colonel Peter J. Osterhaus. The three artillery pieces were ordered to support Cyrus Bussey's cavalry, but the Union horsemen were routed and stampeded through the battery as it moved forward. The gun crews managed to bring away two of the ...
Chalk Bluff was an unincorporated community in Clay County, Arkansas, United States, approximately two miles (3 km) northwest of St. Francis. The town was formed in the 1820s at the point where the St. Francis River cuts through Crowley's Ridge from west to east. The name of the community was derived from the white clay bluff created by this ...
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Chalk Bluff may refer to: Chalk Bluff, California, a gold rush town; Chalk Bluff, Arkansas, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Clay County, Arkansas
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