Battery A

Battery A held Rightor Hill at the north end of Helena's ring of earthworks. According to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas, Col. Powell Clayton's troops, posted behind the levee, flanked Marmaduke's dismounted cavalry, and Joseph Shelby's attack was thrown back as well. Marmaduke blamed Brig. Gen. Marsh Walker for failing to advance on the right. The quarrel ended in a duel in Little Rock on September 6, 1863, in which Marmaduke killed Walker. The same source reports the Battery A site was gone by the end of 2021, after a house was built on its rifle pits.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Elaine Massacre Memorial — 0.6 mi
  A memorial dedicated in 2019 in Helena for the Black people killed by white mobs and troops in the 1919 Elaine Massacre, the deadliest racial confrontation in Arkansas history.
• Delta Cultural Center — 0.9 mi
  A state museum in downtown Helena where King Biscuit Time, the longest-running daily blues radio show, is broadcast live from the Visitors Center.
• Freedom Park — 1.6 mi
  An outdoor Delta Cultural Center site on the ground of a Civil War contraband camp, where thousands of people who had escaped slavery sheltered and men enlisted.
• Mississippi River State Park — 10 mi
  A state park and gateway to the St. Francis National Forest, where the river, Crowley's Ridge and the Delta meet, with a Trail of Tears site at the Mississippi and St. Francis confluence.

More markers nearby

• Battery B — 0.4 mi
• Russwurm Memorial — 0.5 mi
• Fort Curtis — 0.5 mi
• Judge Jacob Trieber — 0.6 mi