Troops Raised in Marion County

Marion County sent men to both armies from a place that mostly did not want the war. The Encyclopedia of Arkansas says few residents owned slaves and most opposed secession, and the first infantry company formed in late summer 1861 under Captain J. R. Dowd. The county was one of the Arkansas Peace Society's strongholds. The 1850 census had recorded 126 enslaved and 129 free Black residents, about 12 percent of the population, but after Act 151 of 1859 ordered free Black people out, only eight remained by late 1860.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Rush Historic District — 9.6 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.
• Bull Shoals-White River State Park — 12 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.
• Buffalo National River at Tyler Bend — 17 mi
  The country's first national river, kept free-flowing after a dam fight that ended in 1965, seen from the Middle District's visitor center, the Collier Homestead and the Riverview Trail.
• Jacob Wolf House — 22 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.

More markers nearby

• Yellville in the Civil War — steps away
• Marion County First County Seat — 0.3 mi
• Skirmish at Tomahawk — 15 mi
• Skirmish at Rolling Prairie — 16 mi