11th Arkansas Infantry, C.S.A.

After the surrender at Island No. 10 on April 8, 1862, the Eleventh Arkansas was held at Camp Douglas and Camp Butler in Illinois and Johnson's Island in Ohio, then paroled and exchanged at Vicksburg. In March 1863 it was merged with the Seventeenth Arkansas and mounted. The men tried to stop Grierson's raid, fought in the Port Hudson campaign, where they captured Union brigadier general Neal Dow, and in April 1864 a detachment burned the gunboat Petrel near Yazoo City. On January 2, 1865, they clashed with the Third U.S. Colored Cavalry, and the department surrendered in May.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Pinnacle Mountain State Park — 19 mi
  A day-use state park west of Little Rock around a 1,011-foot Ouachita peak, with a strenuous summit trail, the Arkansas Arboretum and a visitor center above the Arkansas River.
• Big Dam Bridge — 20 mi
  A 14-foot-wide walking and cycling bridge built onto Murray Lock and Dam, 90 feet over the Arkansas River between Little Rock and North Little Rock.
• Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site — 20 mi
  The 1927 high school where nine Black students entered under federal troops on September 25, 1957, with a National Park Service visitor center across the intersection.
• Arkansas State Capitol — 21 mi
  The neo-classical Capitol built from 1899 to 1915 on the old penitentiary site with state convict labor, free to enter, with the Little Rock Nine monument on the grounds.

More markers nearby

• The Niloak Pottery — 0.6 mi
• The Benton Courier — 0.9 mi
• George M. Holt — 1.0 mi
• William Ayers Crawford — 1.0 mi