General Sterling Price's Invasion of Missouri

Price's army set out in poor shape. It numbered about 12,000 men, a quarter of them deserters returned to duty, with hundreds marching barefoot. The first big fight came at Pilot Knob, Missouri, on September 27, 1864, where repeated assaults on Fort Davidson cost lives and ammunition, and the Federals slipped away overnight after blowing up the magazine. Price bypassed Jefferson City, lost at Westport on October 23, and saw Marmaduke captured at Mine Creek two days later. By his own count he marched 1,434 miles and came home on December 2 with less than half his men.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Davidsonville Historic State Park — 8.4 mi
  The ghost-town site of Arkansas's first post office, courthouse and federal land office, on the Black River, with open-frame outlines of the courthouse and a dogtrot house.
• Powhatan Historic State Park — 15 mi
  A river port and county seat on the Black River whose 1888 courthouse, 1873 jail, log house and academy still stand where they were built, with a state archives branch in the same park.
• Crowley's Ridge State Park — 22 mi
  A 1933 state park on the loess hills of Crowley's Ridge, built around Benjamin Crowley's homestead spring and the stone-and-log pavilion, dam and cabins of the Civilian Conservation Corps.

More markers nearby

• The Missouri Swamp Fox Is Captured in Pocahontas — steps away
• Randolph County Civil War Timeline — steps away
• Pitman's Ferry — steps away
• The Pocahontas Civil War River Walk Memorial — steps away