Action at Ashley's Station

Shelby's men reached Ashley's Station on August 24, 1864, in captured Union uniforms. They took three Union forts guarding the hay-cutting camps west of DeValls Bluff, and Colonel Greenville Mitchell's six companies left a fourth fort to meet a relief column and were captured. The totals depend on who is counting. Shelby claimed 577 prisoners and 200 more killed or wounded, along with ten miles of track, 3,000 bales of hay and twenty hay-cutting machines, while General Andrews acknowledged 400 to 500 captured. It was Shelby's last significant operation north of the Arkansas River that summer.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Plum Bayou Mounds Archeological State Park — 20 mi
  The Plum Bayou culture's mound center, A.D. 700 to 1050, formerly Toltec Mounds, with the tallest surviving prehistoric mounds in Arkansas and alignments to the solstices.
• Plantation Agriculture Museum — 21 mi
  A 1912 brick store turned museum of cotton agriculture beside Horseshoe Lake, with a 1920s Munger gin and exhibits that run from slavery to sharecropping.

More markers nearby

• Eberts Air Field World War I Training Site — 8.6 mi
• Senator Joe T. Robinson — 8.7 mi
• DeValls Bluff in the Civil War — 16 mi
• Memphis & Little Rock Railroad — 16 mi