The Battle of Hurricane Creek

The Encyclopedia of Arkansas files this as a skirmish at Hunter's Crossing, two miles south of Bryant, on October 23, 1864. Major George Avery's Union cavalry rode from Little Rock to raid Princeton for stored weapons and found few. Colonel John Logan's Confederates ambushed them at the creek and withdrew after about 45 minutes. Avery reported 27 Confederate dead, a number the entry finds puzzling for an ambush, and Logan accused the Union side of executing wounded and captured men. Six stones in Bryant Cemetery mark unknown Confederates; only William Anderson Penn of the Second Texas Cavalry is identified.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site — 15 mi
  The 1927 high school where nine Black students entered under federal troops on September 25, 1957, with a National Park Service visitor center across the intersection.
• Arkansas State Capitol — 16 mi
  The neo-classical Capitol built from 1899 to 1915 on the old penitentiary site with state convict labor, free to enter, with the Little Rock Nine monument on the grounds.
• Mosaic Templars Cultural Center — 16 mi
  The state museum of African American history on the site of the Mosaic Templars of America headquarters, a Black fraternal order's 1913 building on West Ninth Street.
• Big Dam Bridge — 16 mi
  A 14-foot-wide walking and cycling bridge built onto Murray Lock and Dam, 90 feet over the Arkansas River between Little Rock and North Little Rock.

More markers nearby

• Bauxite — 2.4 mi
• Bauxite, Arkansas — 2.4 mi
• George M. Holt — 4.5 mi
• William Ayers Crawford — 4.5 mi