Marmaduke-Walker Duel

Lucius Marshall Walker, born in Columbia, Tennessee, in 1829, was the eldest son of James Walker and Jane Maria Polk Walker, and a nephew of President Polk. He graduated fifteenth in West Point's class of 1850, served in the Second Dragoons in Texas, and resigned in 1852 to run a Memphis mercantile business and one of his father's plantations in St. Francis County, Arkansas. He rose from lieutenant colonel to brigadier general by March 1862. Mortally wounded on September 6, 1863, he is buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis, beneath a white obelisk topped with a cross.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Old State House Museum — 3.1 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 — 3.4 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 — 4.0 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.
• Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site — 4.6 mi
  The 1927 high school where nine Black students entered under federal troops on September 25, 1957, with a National Park Service visitor center across the intersection.

More markers nearby

• The Arsenal Crisis — 2.8 mi
• C.S.S. Pontchartrain — 2.8 mi
• The Camden Expedition — 2.8 mi
• Huntersville — 2.9 mi