Marmaduke-Walker Duel

At dawn on September 6, 1863, two Confederate generals faced each other with Colt Navy revolvers at fifteen paces. John Marmaduke and Lucius Walker had been trading blame since the Battle of Helena. Each man brought a second and two doctors; Price's order to stay at headquarters had not reached Walker, and Marmaduke ignored it. Both first shots missed. Marmaduke's second struck Walker in the right kidney, and Walker died the next day in Little Rock, having learned that morning of the birth of his son. Sterling Price had Marmaduke arrested, then released him, and the charges were dropped.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Plantation Agriculture Museum — 10 mi
  A 1912 brick store turned museum of cotton agriculture beside Horseshoe Lake, with a 1920s Munger gin and exhibits that run from slavery to sharecropping.
• Old State House Museum — 11 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.
• Mosaic Templars Cultural Center — 11 mi
  The state museum of African American history on the site of the Mosaic Templars of America headquarters, a Black fraternal order's 1913 building on West Ninth Street.
• Arkansas State Capitol — 11 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.

More markers nearby

• Memphis Military Road — 0.9 mi
• Confederates at Bayou Meto — 1.7 mi
• Bayou Meto Historic Site — 2.7 mi
• Marmaduke-Walker Duel — 8.2 mi