Clarksville in the Civil War

Clarksville's war was mostly picket fights and passing columns. Colonel Thomas Churchill's Confederates camped south of town in the winter of 1861, and soldiers who died of illness lie in unmarked graves in Oakland Cemetery. On April 3, 1864, Union troops of the Second Arkansas Infantry surprised a guerrilla camp nearby and reported the enemy commander among three killed. On September 28, Major Thomas Derry's cavalry drove off the town's pickets and left seven Confederate dead in the streets. The Encyclopedia of Arkansas says departing Union troops burned the Cumberland Presbyterian church, the Methodist church and the jail.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Subiaco Abbey — 15 mi
  A Benedictine monastery on a hilltop in Logan County, founded in 1878 for German-speaking Catholic settlers, with a 1959 abbey church and a boarding school for boys.
• Wiederkehr Wine Cellars — 16 mi
  The oldest operating winery in Arkansas, begun in 1880 in a hand-dug cellar on St. Mary's Mountain by a Swiss shoemaker, in the village that grew around it.
• Lake Dardanelle State Park — 20 mi
  A park on a 34,300-acre Arkansas River reservoir at Russellville, with aquarium exhibits and the story of the Norristown ferry crossing used in the removal of five nations.
• Mount Nebo State Park — 21 mi
  Arkansas's second state park, on a flat-topped mesa above Dardanelle: a Victorian summer town, a town run by women in 1924, CCC cabins and a Trail of Tears view.

More markers nearby

• First Anthracite Coal — steps away
• Skirmishes at Roseville — 20 mi
• Pope County The County Seat — 20 mi
• Franklin County Court House — 20 mi