Conway County in the Civil War

Conway County sent about 900 men to the war, and about 200 came home, according to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Dr. S. J. Stallings went to the 1861 secession convention instructed to vote against leaving the Union, but after Fort Sumter most of the county backed the Confederacy, and Stallings himself owned six enslaved people. The 1860 census counted 802 enslaved people, about twelve percent of the population. Union cavalry at Lewisburg and Confederate guerrillas fought for the rest of the war, and a skirmish at Lewisburg on February 12, 1865, ended most military operations in the county.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Museum of Automobiles — 13 mi
  Winthrop Rockefeller's 1964 museum on Petit Jean Mountain: a cable-roofed hall of antique cars, the only known Arkansas-built Climber, and vehicles once owned by Presidents and Elvis.
• Petit Jean State Park — 15 mi
  Arkansas's first state park, founded in 1923, with a Civilian Conservation Corps lodge, Cedar Falls and a Trail of Tears overlook on a canyon-cut mountain.
• Pinnacle Mountain State Park — 24 mi
  A day-use state park west of Little Rock around a 1,011-foot Ouachita peak, with a strenuous summit trail, the Arkansas Arboretum and a visitor center above the Arkansas River.
• Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge — 24 mi
  A 7,000-acre refuge on an island of former farmland made when the Corps cut off a bend of the Arkansas River in 1954, with winter ducks, geese and eagles and a 14-mile auto tour.

More markers nearby

• Murder of John Clayton — steps away
• Lewisburg in the Civil War — 4.2 mi
• Conway County Seat of Justice — 4.6 mi
• Conway County Cherokee Indian Boundary — 4.9 mi