Chalk Bluff in the Civil War (Raids of March-April 1863)

Chalk Bluff mattered in April 1863 because of Marmaduke's second Missouri raid. He crossed into Missouri on April 17 with about 5,000 men, 1,200 of them unarmed and 900 dismounted. On April 21, by the Encyclopedia of Arkansas's dating, Lieutenant Colonel Solomon Kitchen's Missouri cavalry and Brigadier General M. Jeff Thompson seized the Missouri bank of the crossing. They captured Captain Richard Hulse and 23 men of Company H, Second Missouri State Militia. Marmaduke would be back at this crossing ten days later, running for the river.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum — 6.8 mi
  The Piggott house and barn where Ernest Hemingway visited his in-laws, the Pfeiffers, and worked on A Farewell to Arms in 1928, kept with the family's own Stickley furniture.

More markers nearby

• Chalk Bluff — steps away
• Chalk Bluff in the Civil War (Skirmish of May 15, 1862) — steps away
• Chalk Bluff Crossing and Town — steps away
• Chalk Bluff in the Civil War (Battle of May 1-2, 1863) — steps away