Berryville in the Civil War

On April 16, 1864, a foraging party from Berryville's Union post was caught about twenty miles out, on the Osage branch of Kings River, by Captain James Cooper's battalion of Stand Watie's brigade. Colonel John Phelps counted six soldiers killed, one missing, and six Black teamsters dead, and wrote that they were "butchered without mercy." Another officer reported ten killed and missing, with no breakdown. Phelps called Cooper's men guerrillas, and nobody was held to account. Cooper kept fighting in Missouri until May 1865, when he agreed to stop without formally surrendering.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Eureka Springs Historic District — 9.8 mi
  An 1879 Ozark spring town on a bluff, with 230 streets and none at right angles, Basin Spring Park, the 1886 Crescent Hotel and a National Register district since 1970.
• Thorncrown Chapel — 12 mi
  E. Fay Jones's 1980 glass-and-timber chapel in the Eureka Springs woods, 48 feet high with 425 windows, ranked by the AIA among the best American buildings of its century.
• Withrow Springs State Park — 17 mi
  A 54-degree spring that runs underground into War Eagle Cave and out to War Eagle Creek, on land Roscoe Hobbs gave the state in 1962, with float trips and an oak-hickory forest.
• Hobbs State Park-Conservation Area — 21 mi
  Arkansas's largest state park, about 12,000 acres on Beaver Lake, with the Van Winkle mill site, a graveyard of enslaved people, 54 miles of trail and regulated hunting.

More markers nearby

• Skirmish at Yocum Creek — 7.7 mi
• Civil War Healing — 9.8 mi
• Old Carrollton — 15 mi
• Huntsville Massacre — 21 mi