Skirmishes at Roseville

Roseville mattered because of what sat on its landing. In March 1864 about 200 Kansas cavalrymen, sent from Jenny Lind, guarded supplies and a cotton cache at the Arkansas River port, then in Franklin County and now in Logan County. General Samuel Maxey ordered Colonel Nicholas Battle's Texans to destroy the cotton, commissary stores and grounded boats. On March 29 raiders burned 133 bales and two gins before Kansas cavalry and local Unionists drove them out. The Encyclopedia of Arkansas dates the larger fight to April 4, behind cotton bales. Fort Smith then hauled the cotton away.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wiederkehr Wine Cellars — 4.5 mi
  The oldest operating winery in Arkansas, begun in 1880 in a hand-dug cellar on St. Mary's Mountain by a Swiss shoemaker, in the village that grew around it.
• Subiaco Abbey — 17 mi
  A Benedictine monastery on a hilltop in Logan County, founded in 1878 for German-speaking Catholic settlers, with a 1959 abbey church and a boarding school for boys.
• Mount Magazine State Park — 24 mi
  Arkansas's highest point at 2,753 feet: a sandstone-rimmed plateau above the river valley with a lodge, overlooks and hang-glider launches.
• Devil's Den State Park — 31 mi
  A Civilian Conservation Corps park begun in October 1933 in the Lee Creek valley, with log-and-stone cabins, a 1937 stone dam, about sixty crevice caves and a 15-mile trail.

More markers nearby

• Franklin County Court House — steps away
• Charleston High School Integration — 17 mi
• Clarksville in the Civil War — 20 mi
• First Anthracite Coal — 20 mi