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The Camden Expedition (March 23 – May 3, 1864) was the final campaign conducted by the Union Army in south Arkansas during the Civil War. The offensive was designed to cooperate with Major-General Nathaniel P. Banks ' movement against Shreveport .
The Camden Expedition Sites is a national historic landmark consisting of nine nationally significant historic places in southwest Arkansas where events of the Union army's disastrous Camden Expedition of 1864 occurred during the American Civil War. The Union was attempting to take over Shreveport, Louisiana.
Poison Springs Battleground State Park is an Arkansas state park located southeast of Bluff City.It commemorates the Battle of Poison Spring in the American Civil War, which was part of the 1864 Camden Expedition, an element of a Union Army initiative to gain control of Shreveport, Louisiana and get a foothold in Texas.
Fort Lookout, also known as Redoubt A, is a defensive earthworks erected during the American Civil War on the outskirts of Camden, Arkansas.It was the northernmost of a series of five redoubts built in defense of the city by Confederate Army forces in early 1864, preparatory to the Union Army's Camden Expedition (March–May 1864).
26th Arkansas Infantry: Ltc Iverson L. Brooks; 32nd Arkansas Infantry: Ltc William Hicks; 36th Arkansas Infantry: Col James M. Davie; Hawthorn's Brigade BG Alexander T. Hawthorn [7] 34th Arkansas Infantry: - 35th Arkansas Infantry: - 37th Arkansas Infantry: - Cocke's Arkansas Infantry: Col John B. Cocke (k) Missouri Division [8] BG Mosby M. Parsons
The Battle of Prairie D'Ane (April 9 – 13, 1864), also known as the Skirmish at Prairie D'Ane, Battle of Gum Springs, or Battle of Moscow, was fought in present-day Nevada County, Arkansas, as part of the Camden Expedition, during the American Civil War. [1]
The Prairie D'Ane Battlefield, [3] also known as Prairie D'Ann Battlefield or Prairie De Ann Battlefield in anglicized forms, was the site of the Civil War Battle of Prairie D'Ane, one of the engagements in southwestern Arkansas of the Union's Camden Expedition of 1864.
Fort Southerland itself was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and as part of the Camden Expedition Sites NHL on April 19, 1994. [3] Describing the destruction of much of the earthworks at Camden and other points in Arkansas, Shea finds it "sad to note how little has survived". [21]