Scott Plantation is hosting a day of tours of its village and a reenactment of the skirmish at Ashley Mills, which was a prelude to the taking of Little Rock by Union Forces on September 10, 1863. There will be living history booths featuring Civil War medicine and embalming plus a host of others. This would be a great time …
Vernon will be at the Little Rock Kiwanis Club on October 22. Topics of discussion will be the 150th Anniversary of the American Civil War and Civil War Reenacting. The meeting starts at noon at the top of the Regions Financial Building – 400 W. Capitol, Little Rock, AR.
THE MARYLAND CAMPAIGN OF 1862: THROUGH ARKANSAS EYES I have walked the part of the charge route of the 3rd Arkansas and 27th North Carolina that is still open to the public and have placed small Confederate flags in Mumma’s Lane to commemorate their valor many times. Since I reenact with the 3rd Arkansas I feel a special affinity with …
THE MARYLAND CAMPAIGN OF 1862: THROUGH ARKANSAS EYES When Ransom’s Brigade of Walker’s Division joined with the McLaw’s Division at the south of the West Woods, they hit the 5500 man Union Division under General Sedgwich. This was a division in Sumner’s II Corps. The Confederates hit the Union Division in the left flank and their rear and it was …
THE MARYLAND CAMPAIGN OF 1862: THROUGH ARKANSAS EYES Walker’s Division had been listening to the fire from the north with the knowledge that the battle would ultimately get to them. At about 9:00 AM a staff officer galloped up to Walker’s Command Post and ordered the division to go north at the double quick. D. R Jones’ Division was now …