Action at Moscow

Moscow was a rear-guard fight. On April 13, 1864, with Steele's army moving toward Camden, about 400 men of Thomas Dockery's brigade attacked John Thayer's Frontier Division, roughly 5,000 strong, around one in the afternoon, and Union infantry and artillery stopped them. Thayer counterattacked on both flanks. Sterling Price then committed the Second Indian Brigade, and Thayer's guns halted that too. By five o'clock the Confederates had been pushed three or four miles back across Prairie D'Ane, and the division marched through the night to rejoin Steele. The Union lost 7 killed and 24 wounded.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site — 15 mi
  The two-story Hervey Street house in Hope where Bill Clinton lived his first four years with his widowed mother and her parents, now a National Park Service site with a ranger-led tour.
• White Oak Lake State Park — 17 mi
  A 725-acre park on the lower of two 1961 lakes, where white sand marks an ancient shoreline and the visitor center carries a Poison Spring display eight miles from the battlefield.
• Historic Washington State Park — 18 mi
  A Southwest Trail town that was Arkansas's Confederate capital from 1863 to 1865, then lost the railroad and kept its buildings, with a blacksmith shop and the 1836 courthouse.
• Poison Spring Battleground State Park — 23 mi
  An 85-acre roadside battlefield west of Camden, where Confederates routed a Union foraging column on April 18, 1864, and many Black soldiers of the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry were killed after surrendering.

More markers nearby

• Moscow Church and Cemetery — steps away
• Skirmishes at Prairie D'Ane — 4.2 mi
• Fighting at Elkins' Ferry — 16 mi
• Skirmishes at Okolona — 16 mi