Battle of Maysville

The battle took Maysville's name but was fought at Fort Wayne, a few miles over the line in the Cherokee Nation. The Army built the post in 1838 as Camp Illinois, moved it to Spavinaw Creek in 1840 and abandoned it in 1842. On October 22, 1862, Brig. Gen. James Blunt's column, which included Cherokee regiments, drove off Col. Douglas Cooper's force, which included Stand Watie's Cherokee volunteers. Cherokees fought on both sides. The Confederates fell back nearly seventy miles to Fort Gibson, and Blunt was promoted to major general.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Walmart Museum — 22 mi
  Sam Walton's 1950 variety store on the Bentonville square, now a free museum with his 1979 pickup, a recreated office, the 1945 Newport store door and a 1950s-style soda counter.
• Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art — 22 mi
  A 2011 Moshe Safdie building on 120 acres of Ozark forest in Bentonville, with free admission, six trails, two ponds, a spring, an arboretum and a relocated Frank Lloyd Wright house.
• Saline Courthouse Museum — 26 mi
  The one Cherokee district courthouse of nine still standing, an 1884 building near Rose that the Cherokee Nation bought back and opened as a museum in 2019.

More markers nearby

• Camp Walker — 1.9 mi
• Fort Wayne — 2.0 mi
• Camp Jackson — 5.5 mi
• Arkansas & Oklahoma Railroad — 8.5 mi