Yellville in the Civil War

The Berry House, which survived the burning of Yellville, did war work. Union forces requisitioned it along with other Yellville buildings and used it as a hospital and a horse stable; it still stands. The town changed hands several times, and the Encyclopedia of Arkansas says the first courthouse burned during the war. In the Yellville Expedition of November 25 to 29, 1862, Union cavalry also seized about 500 rifles and shotguns from a Confederate arsenal in town, paroled 150 men from a hospital and captured 60 men of a Missouri Confederate cavalry regiment.

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

• Troops Raised in Marion County — steps away
• Marion County First County Seat — 0.3 mi
• Skirmish at Tomahawk — 15 mi
• Skirmish at Rolling Prairie — 16 mi