The Pocahontas Civil War River Walk Memorial

Pocahontas was a small place to host an army. The 1880 census counted only 325 residents, yet the Encyclopedia of Arkansas says about 10,000 men were assembling around the town in 1861, and General William Hardee took command that August. The county they gathered in held about 6,000 people in 1860, 359 of them enslaved. In 1862 General Frederick Steele's Union division occupied the town for several weeks, and Federal raiders burned part of it in 1863, including the newspaper office.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Davidsonville Historic State Park — 8.5 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

• Pitman's Ferry — steps away
• The Missouri Swamp Fox Is Captured in Pocahontas — steps away
• General Sterling Price's Invasion of Missouri — steps away
• Randolph County Civil War Timeline — steps away