Battle of Marks' Mills / Marks Family Experience

Battle of Marks' Mills / Marks Family Experience (HM2A0J)

Location: New Edinburg, AR 71660 Cleveland County
Country: United States of America
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N 33° 47.115', W 92° 14.627'

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Battle of Marks' Mills


On April 23, 1864, a Union force with 240 wagons left Camden to get supplies from Pine Bluff for Gen. Frederick Steele's army. Gen. James Fagan's Confederate cavalrymen ambushed them at Marks' Mills on April 25. The first shots of the battle were fired near here. After 5 hours of heavy combat, the Union troops surrendered with some 1,500 casualties, mostly prisoners. Fagan lost only 293 men in his one-sided victory. The disastrous defeat at Marks' Mills, following an earlier loss at Poison Spring, led Steele to abandon Camden and retreat to Little Rock.


Marks Family Experience


Young Eleanor and Martha Marks witnessed the opening of the battle of Marks' Mills from their front porch and saw several men killed on the road and in their yard. Four Confederates were buried in their garden and dozens of Union dead were buried in their orchard. The Marks Family home served as a hospital in the combats aftermath. Mollie Marks, their cousin, helped three wounded Union soldiers from the battlefield to the hospital and helped nurse them back to health, actions that led to her nomination to be local postmaster many years later.
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HM NumberHM2A0J
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Year Placed2014
Placed ByArkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission, Marks Cemetery, Marks Mills Battlefield Park
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Date Added Sunday, August 5th, 2018 at 4:02pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)15S E 570010 N 3738602
Decimal Degrees33.78525000, -92.24378333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 33° 47.115', W 92° 14.627'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds33° 47' 6.9000000000001" N, 92° 14' 37.62" W
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Area Code(s)870
Closest Postal AddressAt or near Old Camden Rd, New Edinburg AR 71660, US
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