The Missouri Swamp Fox Is Captured in Pocahontas

Thompson's capture in Pocahontas began a year in Union prisons. After he was taken in August 1863, he was held in turn at the Gratiot and Alton military prisons, at Fort Delaware and at Johnson's Island. Wikipedia's biography says he was exchanged in 1864 for a Union general. He then rejoined the war with Sterling Price's Missouri expedition. In March 1865 he took over the Northern Sub-District of Arkansas and surrendered that year. He died of tuberculosis in St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1876.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Davidsonville Historic State Park — 8.4 mi
  The ghost-town site of Arkansas's first post office, courthouse and federal land office, on the Black River, with open-frame outlines of the courthouse and a dogtrot house.
• Powhatan Historic State Park — 15 mi
  A river port and county seat on the Black River whose 1888 courthouse, 1873 jail, log house and academy still stand where they were built, with a state archives branch in the same park.
• Crowley's Ridge State Park — 22 mi
  A 1933 state park on the loess hills of Crowley's Ridge, built around Benjamin Crowley's homestead spring and the stone-and-log pavilion, dam and cabins of the Civilian Conservation Corps.

More markers nearby

• Pitman's Ferry — steps away
• General Sterling Price's Invasion of Missouri — steps away
• The Pocahontas Civil War River Walk Memorial — steps away
• Randolph County Civil War Timeline — steps away