Action at Whitney's Lane

A short fight on the West Point road east of Searcy decided where an army went. In May 1862 Samuel Curtis's Army of the Southwest was edging toward Little Rock, short of supplies. About a hundred Texas cavalrymen under Major Emory Rogers, with some fifty local men, surrounded a Union guard sheltering behind a rail fence, and about 22 Federals died and 33 were wounded. Curtis, hearing of it, believed a strong force lay ahead and turned back at Caney Creek. By late June he was marching for Helena instead, and Little Rock stayed Confederate until September 1863.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Greers Ferry Dam and Lake — 26 mi
  The Corps of Engineers dam on the Little Red River that President Kennedy dedicated on October 3, 1963, with a visitor center, a trout hatchery below the dam and a lake of 340 miles of shoreline.

More markers nearby

• Guerrilla War on the Little Red — 1.7 mi
• Searcy Landing in the Civil War — 1.7 mi
• White County Court House — 3.5 mi
• Naval Combat at West Point — 4.4 mi