Battle of Arkansas Post

The Union commanders who took Fort Hindman in January 1863 disagreed about almost everything. John McClernand, a politician-general, took over the downriver force after Sherman had sailed without him, then named it the Army of the Mississippi. Sherman backed the attack partly to repair his reputation after Chickasaw Bayou. Admiral David Porter's gunboats silenced most of the fort's guns on January 10 and 11, and General Churchill surrendered 4,791 men after confused fighting with white flags along his line. Grant disapproved of the expedition and relieved McClernand on January 30, and Porter wrote a misleading letter about him.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Arkansas Post National Memorial — 1.7 mi
  The site of Arkansas's first European trading post, opened in 1686 beside the Quapaw town of Osotouy, later a territorial capital and the scene of a January 1863 Union victory.
• Rohwer Relocation Center Memorial Cemetery — 19 mi
  A National Historic Landmark cemetery built by Japanese Americans incarcerated at Rohwer from 1942 to 1945, with monuments they made and audio panels narrated by George Takei.

More markers nearby

• Old Town of Napoleon — 17 mi
• Skirmish at Amos Bayou — 18 mi
• The Orphan Company — 24 mi
• Engagement at St. Charles — 28 mi