Potts Family in the Civil War

Joseph Potts's war did not end at Corinth. Wounded and captured there, he was exchanged in 1863, rejoined his cavalry battalion in Mississippi, fought at Baker's Creek and was captured the next day at Black River. While a riverboat carried the prisoners near Memphis, he, his brother Richard and another man jumped overboard and swam ashore. Back home, he joined Confederates in Perry County after Federal troops took Dardanelle in September 1863, fought at Marks' Mills and surrendered at Little Rock in June 1865. From 1872 he was station agent and postmaster at Potts Station.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge — 6.5 mi
  A 7,000-acre refuge on an island of former farmland made when the Corps cut off a bend of the Arkansas River in 1954, with winter ducks, geese and eagles and a 14-mile auto tour.
• Lake Dardanelle State Park — 9.1 mi
  A park on a 34,300-acre Arkansas River reservoir at Russellville, with aquarium exhibits and the story of the Norristown ferry crossing used in the removal of five nations.
• Petit Jean State Park — 11 mi
  Arkansas's first state park, founded in 1923, with a Civilian Conservation Corps lodge, Cedar Falls and a Trail of Tears overlook on a canyon-cut mountain.
• Mount Nebo State Park — 12 mi
  Arkansas's second state park, on a flat-topped mesa above Dardanelle: a Victorian summer town, a town run by women in 1924, CCC cabins and a Trail of Tears view.

More markers nearby

• Butterfield's Overland Mail — steps away
• Potts Inn — steps away
• Potts Tavern — steps away
• Action at Dardanelle — 6.7 mi