The edge of Conflict Arkansas in the Civil War

Subscribe to our KZbin Channel and never miss an update at myarpbs.org/youtubesubscribe.
Sign up for our newsletter at myarpbs.org/signup to receive updates about fresh, local content from The Natural State and the PBS programs you've trusted for decades.
With the support of Arkansas PBS members, we are able to educate, inform, enrich and inspire Arkansans. Consider making a gift today at myarpbs.org/donate.
Arkansas PBS delivers daily, essential, local, award-winning productions and classic, trusted PBS programs aimed at sharing Arkansas and the world with viewers through multiple digital platforms, including livestreaming at myarpbs.org/watchlive, on-demand services and KZbin TV, and the distinct channels Arkansas PBS, Arkansas PBS Create, Arkansas PBS KIDS, Arkansas PBS WORLD and Arkansas PBS AIRS on SAP.
Members with Arkansas PBS Passport have extended on-demand access to a rich library of public television programming. Arkansas PBS depends on the generosity of Arkansans and the State of Arkansas to continue offering quality programming. Additional information is available at myarkansaspbs.org. Arkansas PBS is broadcast on KETS (Little Rock), KEMV (Mountain View), KETG (Arkadelphia), KAFT (Fayetteville), KTEJ (Jonesboro), KETZ (El Dorado) KETS (Lee Mountain), and KETS (Forrest City).
Find us on Social Media
/ arkansaspbs
/ arkansaspbs
/ arkansas_pbs
/ arkansaspbs

[@sharonp6468]

Thank you for taking time to share this. It is harder to let go when you can still see battle signs. I finally get a feeling of peace when I visit Arkansas Post, but when I lived out in Delaware for a couple of years, I saw some of the remains of the Civil War including Fort Delaware, Pea Patch Island, and Fort Mott Cemetery in New Jersey. I cried so hard looking at the barracks on Pea Patch Island where Confederate prisoners were held. When they died, at first they tried to bury them there, but with the water as it was they would float, so they began transporting them to Fort Mott, where they buried the two sides in separate cemeteries. I am horrified that people want to whitewash everything Civil War, statues, moving bodies of dead Generals, etc. There needs to always be a reminder visible of what was, so the same mistakes are not made down the road. Removing reminders will never change the truth.

[@carywest9256]

I paused the video at 48:00 minutes, when the historian just before the time l mentioned talks about stopping Texas troops. One is the 12th. Texas Calvary, which halts the yankees at Searcy. They go on to fight the invaders at Des Arc and Cotton Plant, Ark. This happened in the Spring of '62,it made the yankees reel back north towards Missouri. My ancestors were all in the 12th. TX. Cav. Co. E. All five were of the last name West. One of them was my Great great grandfather. Not one word about the Battle of Jenkin's Ferry in '64, as part of the Red River Campaign. But it was a Confederate victory as so was the Poison Spring Battle.

[@teresa_davis]

Excellent and we'll done series.. Thank you for all the when that went into this and all the people who did it. ❤️

[@jackburgess9482]

I had relatives on both sides at Pea Ridge. My third great grandfather was in the 10th Mo. (CS) under Price was wounded there, his older brother was with the 7th Mo. Cavalry (Union) under Curtis. My grandfather was a 1st Lt. serving in the ranks but after he was wounded he was transferred to 1st assistant surgeon since he was a MD before the war. His name was William Oliver Alexander and his brother was John Alexander. Uncle John mustered out of the army in 1863 while Grandpa served with the CS until the end of the war as a Doctor. I haven't been able to find much information about Uncle John as far as his military service, but I have found Grandpa's enlistment papers and his obituary that had a lot of information. Both survived the war and Grandpa passed away in 1896 in Indian territory (Oklahoma) and is buried near the town of Stanley Ok. Uncle John passed away in 1890 near Sleeper Mo. an is buried near there. I have what could possibly be Uncle John's sword belt buckle that I found while metal detecting at a old house site where he lived shortly after the war. I have no way to prove it was his, but it is possible.

[@sharonp6468]

P.S. There is a cemetery in the Watson Chapel area of Pine Bluff, near Sulphur Springs, where time stands still. Almost every stone says 1862. From what I gather, most died from an illness that spread throughout the camp. I was also told the Union soldiers burned the little town upon their arrival. I wish I knew more about this.

[@drummer78]

General Curtis is an underrated Civil War hero.

[@jackburgess9482]

Yes he was, I've been working for the past few years on finding and mapping his camps in the Lebanon Mo. area where he had all of his command assemble before marching to Springfield and then on to Pea Ridge. So far I've managed to locate 11 different camp sites and I'm trying to get permission to search three more possible sites.

[@tmusic99]

New perspectives for a European like myself. Appreciate it. "The Band" wrote "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" based on this historical context, an epic song that is part of the American heritage.

[@ringogringo814]

My great great granddaddy Quartermaster sergeant William Harrison Jones rode with Co. A 5th Illinois volunteer Calvary. I've done a deep dive into it. The mile wide path they burnt across Philips County to welcome them back to the union was pretty brutal in the spring of 1863. They moved to Haines Bluff, Miss. and participated in cutting off Vicksburg in late May 63.

[@tracy85777]

Well it's not loading for me either.

[@shermanatorosborn9688]

Not loading for me😢

[@Kirsten_Harwood]

I’m looking for help with genealogy 😅. Please help. I know things and have stuff collected.

[@Kirsten_Harwood]

Mine

[@hitzer2000]

at Sulphur spring found the name for the head stone in the masonic lodge record and I'm reenactor in 2 ark company D

[@Kirsten_Harwood]

Jenny Lind

[@avenaoat]

ETERNAL SHAME Lincoln was not on the ballot in 10 Southern states in 1860! Kentucky, Deleware, Virginia, Missouri and Maryland allowed Lincoln on the ballot. In Missouri Lincoln got about 10% vote in 1860, but Kentukcy gave him about 1%. Why was the South so paranoid it may be Lincoln would have got about 1% in the Deep South same to Kentucky? The prounionst regions with small exception would not have given same % to Lincoln as Missouri or Delaware. East Tenneesee was not Republican only Prounionist. Interesting where Lincoln was on the ballot joined to the Union in 1861 (West Virginia left Virginia for the Union).

[@avenaoat]

Arkansas gave 9000 white volunter soldiers to the union. From East Europe I respected the Southern unionists to help this bloody Civil War ended quicklier! An extrem weak North America would have been catastrophic for the all World and the Confederacy could have been that a semi colony of the European industrial nations with the low IMPORT TARIFF. BTW the UK government began to diversicate the raw cotton production from 1858! The port city consulates gave free of charge cotton seed to the producers in the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire. After the end of the revolt in India, the UK government changed India to be Crown colony and the UK government started to increase the raw cotton production in India from 1858. The shortage of cotton decreased by 1864 in the World. After the Civil War South found a lot of raw cotton competitors in the World as India, Egypt, Ottoman Empire, Brasil and a lot of other smaller producer countries. After the Second World War Germany was destroyed but the World market wanted Made In Germany industrial goods, but the South did not get good market for its product as the cotton. South lost more than 20% of the soldiers age men, North lost smaller % men and the majority of the European immigrants went to North.

[@Owl350]

Caucasian isn't a race.