Skirmishes near Mountain Home

Major John Wilber's raid on Yellville turned back on a spy's report. As the Encyclopedia of Arkansas tells it, he was told Colonel Shaler was coming with about 2,000 infantry, 1,000 cavalry and four guns, and he would not trap his small force against a flooded White River. He left with fifty horses, five wagons and other goods and later claimed about ten Confederates killed. The place was then Talbot's Barrens, not yet Mountain Home, and the Encyclopedia files the fight under the whole Yellville Expedition, October 12 to 19, 1862.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Jacob Wolf House — 10 mi
  Arkansas's oldest public structure, a two-story dogtrot log house at the Norfork confluence that served as the Izard County courthouse in 1829 and later as a family home.
• Bull Shoals-White River State Park — 11 mi
  A state park below Bull Shoals Dam, where a visitor center overlooks the dam and lake and the White River below is a nationally known trout stream.
• Rush Historic District — 17 mi
  The zinc-mining camp on Rush Creek that boomed from the 1880s, emptied after 1919 and now stands inside Buffalo National River as a ghost town.
• Calico Rock Historic District — 20 mi
  A one-block railroad-era Main Street climbing a hillside above the White River, rebuilt in brick and stone after the 1923 fire, with a hotel of homemade cement blocks.

More markers nearby

• Old Military Road — 4.5 mi
• Troops Raised in Marion County — 18 mi
• Yellville in the Civil War — 18 mi
• Marion County First County Seat — 18 mi