Faulkner County in the Civil War

Faulkner County did not exist during the war. The legislature created it on April 12, 1873, one of nine counties made by the Republican-led Reconstruction legislature, and named it for Colonel Sanford Faulkner. Before that its ground lay in Conway and Pulaski counties. At least 123 men from the area served the Confederacy, many in the Tenth Arkansas, and after Union forces took central Arkansas in 1863 some local men enlisted in the Union army. Others fought as guerrillas, and the Encyclopedia of Arkansas reports many small skirmishes but no major battle.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Pinnacle Mountain State Park — 17 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.
• Big Dam Bridge — 20 mi
  A 14-foot-wide walking and cycling bridge built onto Murray Lock and Dam, 90 feet over the Arkansas River between Little Rock and North Little Rock.
• Arkansas State Capitol — 24 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.
• Old State House Museum — 25 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.

More markers nearby

• Cadron in the Civil War — 6.8 mi
• Murder of John Clayton — 14 mi
• Conway County in the Civil War — 14 mi
• Lewisburg in the Civil War — 18 mi