Shelling of Jacksonport

One of the Confederate vessels tied to this raid, the Maurepas, began life in 1858 as a New Albany, Indiana, sidewheel steamer named Grosse Tete, built for a New Orleans owner and later used to carry mail. The Confederate Navy bought her in November 1861, mounted guns and renamed her for Lake Maurepas. She fought at Island Number Ten in March 1862, then went up the White River. On June 16, 1862, she was sunk at St. Charles with two steamboats to block the river, a day before Union ironclads won there.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Jacksonport State Park — 0.2 mi
  A steamboat port at the confluence of the White and Black rivers whose 1872 Second Empire courthouse, raised two feet to clear the floods, stands as the park museum.
• Old Independence Regional Museum — 21 mi
  A Batesville museum in a 1936 WPA sandstone National Guard armory, telling the story of the twelve counties that once formed Independence County, with a research wing for local records.

More markers nearby

• Jackson County First Court House — 2.9 mi
• Colonel Shelby in Arkansas — 20 mi
• Action at Fitzhugh's Woods — 20 mi
• Governor Elisha Baxter — 20 mi