C.S.S. Arkansas

The Arkansas ended on an order nobody aboard wanted. Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn told her to support the attack on Baton Rouge though her engines were failing. Lt. Henry Stevens objected, citing Isaac Brown's orders, but Brown was ill ashore. Her regular engineer was too sick to go, so an army volunteer with little engine experience ran the machinery. She ran aground on cypress stumps, broke a crank pin, and lost her other engine on August 6. Stevens ordered her scuttled. Her wreck was located in 1981 under a levee.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Triangle Cultural Center — 0.9 mi
  A 1904 school on Main Street in Yazoo City that survived the great fire of that May and now holds the county's historical museum, in a town rebuilt in brick on the same lots.
• Blue Front Cafe — 15 mi
  A cinder-block juke joint in Bentonia, opened in 1948 by Carey and Mary Holmes, home of the Bentonia school of blues and a stop on the Mississippi Blues Trail.
• Delta National Forest — 22 mi
  The only bottomland hardwood forest in the national forest system, some 60,000 acres of oak, ash and cypress in Sharkey County, run with the state as Sunflower Wildlife Management Area.

More markers nearby

• B.S. Ricks Memorial Library — 0.9 mi
• Bank of Yazoo City — 0.9 mi
• Yazoo County Courthouse — 0.9 mi
• Yazoo Expedition — 1.0 mi