Confederates at Bayou Meto

The Confederate defense of Bayou Meto rested on two brigades. Shelby's Iron Brigade, led that day by B. Frank Gordon, and a brigade under Colonel William Jeffers held the line under Marmaduke on August 27, 1863. Against them came Union cavalry and infantry, among them the 10th Illinois Cavalry, the 3rd Missouri Cavalry, the 1st Iowa Cavalry and the 32nd Iowa Infantry, plus Colonel John Glover's brigade. Confederate losses are not fully known; at least two men were killed. After dark the Confederates pulled back to a position less than five miles from Little Rock.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Plantation Agriculture Museum — 12 mi
  A 1912 brick store turned museum of cotton agriculture beside Horseshoe Lake, with a 1920s Munger gin and exhibits that run from slavery to sharecropping.
• Old State House Museum — 12 mi
  The oldest standing state capitol west of the Mississippi, where lawmakers met from 1836, enslaved people were auctioned in the east wing and Arkansas voted to secede.
• Mosaic Templars Cultural Center — 13 mi
  The state museum of African American history on the site of the Mosaic Templars of America headquarters, a Black fraternal order's 1913 building on West Ninth Street.
• Arkansas State Capitol — 13 mi
  The neo-classical Capitol built from 1899 to 1915 on the old penitentiary site with state convict labor, free to enter, with the Little Rock Nine monument on the grounds.

More markers nearby

• Memphis Military Road — 0.9 mi
• Bayou Meto Historic Site — 1.1 mi
• Marmaduke-Walker Duel — 1.7 mi
• Marmaduke-Walker Duel — 9.8 mi