Skirmish at Yocum Creek

The soldier who did not come home from Yocum Creek was Pvt. Luther P. Phillips, 29, of the First Arkansas Cavalry (US). His company had ridden from Elkhorn Tavern to bring Unionist families out of Carroll County, and local Confederates attacked at the Jeremiah Youngblood farm on November 15, 1862. Phillips was mortally wounded, died November 21, and was left with the Duncan family and buried on a hill overlooking both fights. His tombstone, put up by the Unionist family, was rediscovered in 1992. Local tradition also names Dr. Willie Blount Wright, a Confederate who died November 24.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Eureka Springs Historic District — 18 mi
  An 1879 Ozark spring town on a bluff, with 230 streets and none at right angles, Basin Spring Park, the 1886 Crescent Hotel and a National Register district since 1970.
• Thorncrown Chapel — 20 mi
  E. Fay Jones's 1980 glass-and-timber chapel in the Eureka Springs woods, 48 feet high with 425 windows, ranked by the AIA among the best American buildings of its century.
• Withrow Springs State Park — 21 mi
  A 54-degree spring that runs underground into War Eagle Cave and out to War Eagle Creek, on land Roscoe Hobbs gave the state in 1962, with float trips and an oak-hickory forest.
• Ralph Foster Museum — 22 mi
  The College of the Ozarks museum named for the Springfield radio pioneer behind KWTO and the Ozark Jubilee, home of the Beverly Hillbillies truck and a Benton painting.

More markers nearby

• Berryville in the Civil War — 7.7 mi
• Old Carrollton — 8.0 mi
• Civil War Healing — 18 mi
• Boone County Men Served Both Armies — 20 mi