DeValls Bluff in the Civil War

Fort Lincoln was drawn up after a Confederate raid. Following Shelby's capture of the hay camps at Ashley's Station on August 24, 1864, Captain Junius Wheeler, Steele's chief engineer, planned three redoubts anchored on a bend of the White River, and General Christopher Andrews oversaw the work. The 57th U.S. Infantry, a Black regiment, built the last and heaviest earthwork, and Andrews reported that the name pleased the men and made them shovel faster. Only the southernmost redoubt survives, on private land, and an effort to make it a Civil War park did not succeed.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Louisiana Purchase State Park — 25 mi
  A National Historic Landmark in a headwater swamp where Phillips, Lee and Monroe counties meet, marking the initial point of every survey of the Louisiana Purchase lands.

More markers nearby

• Memphis & Little Rock Railroad — steps away
• The Memphis & Little Rock Railroad — steps away
• Monroe County First Courthouse — 10 mi
• Clarendon in the Civil War — 10 mi