Road to Marks' Mills

The column on this road was bigger than its soldiers. Lieutenant Colonel Francis Drake left Camden with more than 1,200 infantrymen, artillery, cavalry and 240 wagons, and about 300 Black civilians and an unknown number of white civilians went along. On April 25, 150 cavalrymen from Pine Bluff joined, bringing the fighting men to nearly 1,800, while about 520 more trailed behind. By the Encyclopedia of Arkansas's account, about 150 of the Black civilians were captured at Marks' Mills and more than 100 others are believed to have been killed.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• McCollum-Chidester House Museum — 29 mi
  An 1847 Greek Revival house in Camden that served as a stagecoach headquarters and, in April 1864, as General Steele's headquarters, with bullet holes still visible upstairs.

More markers nearby

• Battle of Marks' Mills — steps away
• Site of Paul "Bear" Bryant's Boyhood Home — 6.2 mi
• Battle of Marks' Mills — 9.6 mi
• Marks Family Experience — 9.8 mi