state of Arkansas obviously did not feel that Lincoln’s election was grounds to justify

secession. Indeed it was not until the actions of Ft. Sumter that Arkansas throws in it’s

If an issue in the state one would think Arkansas might been among the first

to have left the Union. No doubt it was an issue but not nearly as strong a one to have

motivated it’s inhabitants to the act of war that would later be required of them.

Arkansas was after all a very poor state and wasn’t even competitive with other southern

states agriculturally for the slave population to have been large enough to really matter

economically. For whatever reason’s Arkansas finally seceded and the reasons are all

debatable, it took its stand and fought more gallant than most.

It began in Pea Ridge, where the Confederates were sent flying due to incompetent

generals such as Albert Pike, Mcullough, a famous Texas Ranger, and Macintosh, Pea

Ridge would be the Beginning of many such defeats for Confederate Arkansas. After that

it was the fall of one piece of the state at a time. Why? Were Arkansans inferiors?

wagon’s and his cavalry over when Smith comes up from his rear and engage him.

is really Arkansas' only success in the war and really all for nothing. The Red River

Some topics in this essay:
Sumter Arkansas, Saline River, Shreveport Camden, Red River, Poison Springs, Brigadier Thayer’s, Patrick Cleburne, Little Rock, Confederate Arkansas, Camden Campaign, little rock, red river, confederate troops, poison springs, arkansas river, steele’s army, camden campaign, patrick cleburne, pea ridge, union army,