Tulip in the Civil War

The skirmish was a dawn raid. At about four in the morning on October 11, 1863, Colonel Powell Clayton led some 300 men of the 5th Kansas and 1st Indiana Cavalry, with four mountain howitzers, against Colonel Archibald Dobbins's 1st Arkansas Cavalry. A Union report counted 600 Confederates; Dobbins said he fell back with about 200. They left behind tents, wagons, arms and a battle flag. The only Union casualty was Clayton himself, grazed by a bullet. Enslaved people worked Tulip's plantations, and by the 1850 census at least eleven owners held more than twenty each.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Garvan Woodland Gardens — 33 mi
  A 210-acre botanical garden on a Lake Hamilton peninsula that one gardener built over thirty years and left to the University of Arkansas.

More markers nearby

• Arkansas Military Institute — steps away
• Tulip — steps away
• Skirmish at Guesses Creek — 4.8 mi
• Officers Killed — 7.8 mi