5th Arkansas Infantry Regiment

The Fifth Arkansas is remembered as a hard-fighting regiment, but its first year was spent waiting. Ten companies from Poinsett, Bradley, Greene and Prairie counties were organized at Gainesville on June 28, 1861, under Colonel David Cross, a Poinsett County planter. The regiment spent Shiloh on guard duty in Mississippi, and its first combat was Perryville on October 8, 1862, where four men were killed. Murfreesboro cost 12 killed and 135 wounded. At Chickamauga it lost 38 killed, including Colonel Lucius Featherston, and in 1863 it was merged with the Thirteenth Arkansas.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Crowley's Ridge State Park — 8.6 mi
  A 1933 state park on the loess hills of Crowley's Ridge, built around Benjamin Crowley's homestead spring and the stone-and-log pavilion, dam and cabins of the Civilian Conservation Corps.
• Arkansas State University Museum — 21 mi
  A free university museum in the Dean B. Ellis Library, with a mastodon cast, an Old Town Arkansas street, Native American and Rockabilly galleries and a tinkering studio, and the hub of the university heritage sites.
• Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum — 26 mi
  The Piggott house and barn where Ernest Hemingway visited his in-laws, the Pfeiffers, and worked on A Farewell to Arms in 1928, kept with the family's own Stickley furniture.
• Herman Davis State Park — 27 mi
  A one-acre state park in Manila around the grave and memorial of Pvt. Herman Davis, a duck-hunting guide who became a scout and sharpshooter in the First World War and was fourth on Pershing's list of heroes.

More markers nearby

• Craighead County Court House — 22 mi
• Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church — 22 mi
• Troops Raised in Craighead County — 23 mi
• Billy Lee Riley — 23 mi