Rev. James Ingram

After Pea Ridge, James Ingram ignored an order to report to Memphis and led a guerrilla band that raided Union wagon trains, mail carriers and stragglers. Union cavalry attacked him in a White River cave on November 15, 1862, and he escaped. He sent a Union officer a threat in red ink, surrendered with thirty or forty men on May 31, 1865, and became a self-taught Baptist preacher. On September 4, 1870, at a church service, John Stone, about 17, shot him in the back. Stone's father had been hanged by the band in 1864.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Hobbs State Park-Conservation Area — 10 mi
  Arkansas's largest state park, about 12,000 acres on Beaver Lake, with the Van Winkle mill site, a graveyard of enslaved people, 54 miles of trail and regulated hunting.
• Walmart Museum — 11 mi
  Sam Walton's 1950 variety store on the Bentonville square, now a free museum with his 1979 pickup, a recreated office, the 1945 Newport store door and a 1950s-style soda counter.
• Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art — 12 mi
  A 2011 Moshe Safdie building on 120 acres of Ozark forest in Bentonville, with free admission, six trails, two ponds, a spring, an arboretum and a relocated Frank Lloyd Wright house.
• Pea Ridge National Military Park — 15 mi
  Where Union troops held the March 1862 Civil War battle that kept Missouri in the Union, with Elkhorn Tavern, a Cherokee Trail of Tears road and a signed tour route.

More markers nearby

• Regular Baptist Church of Shiloh — 3.3 mi
• Holcomb's Spring in the Civil War — 3.4 mi
• Cross Hollows — 3.5 mi
• Camp Halleck at Osage Springs — 7.1 mi