Confederate Camp at Richmond

The soldiers camped at Richmond were what remained of Sterling Price's raid into Missouri. Price meant to gather recruits and supplies, disrupt Federal communications and, if he could, take St. Louis. He fought several pitched battles without coming close to the city. At Westport, the largest battle in the Trans-Mississippi, and again at Mine Creek in Kansas, he was beaten, and the Encyclopedia of Arkansas says his army was nearly destroyed. Price returned to Arkansas and set up his headquarters at Laynesport, in Little River County.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Millwood State Park — 12 mi
  A park at the foot of the 3.3-mile Millwood Dam, built in 1966 on the Little River, where flooded timber makes serious bass fishing and the lake counts as a bird-conservation area.
• Museum of Regional History — 17 mi
  Texarkana's oldest museum, in an 1879 brick building on State Line Avenue, with Caddo pottery, one of Scott Joplin's pianos and a research library of city directories and photographs.

More markers nearby

• Richmond Church and Cemetery — steps away
• Little River County Seat — 3.7 mi
• Home of Governor Jeff Davis — 3.7 mi
• Red Lick Methodist Church — 12 mi