Camp Walker

Nicholas Bartlett Pearce, who is credited with founding Camp Walker, did not want secession. Born in Kentucky in 1828 and a West Point graduate of 1850, he resigned his commission in 1858 and went into business at Osage Mills in Benton County. The secession convention made him a brigadier general of state troops in May 1861, and he led them at Wilson's Creek on August 10. Afterward most of his men voted to disband. He rebuilt Osage Mills after the war; a flood washed it away in 1892, and he died in Dallas in 1894.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Walmart Museum — 20 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 — 20 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 — 28 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

• Battle of Maysville — 1.9 mi
• Fort Wayne — 3.4 mi
• Camp Jackson — 3.7 mi
• Arkansas & Oklahoma Railroad — 6.6 mi