Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Civil War Campaign Recalled

A special presentation recognizing an 1864 Arkansas Civil War campaign was held as part of Heritage Day at White Oak Lake State Park, Saturday, May 10.

Parker Westbrook, of Nashville, presented a plaque to Arkansas State Parks Director Greg Butts commemorating the designation of nine Arkansas properties as the Camden Expedition National Historic Landmark (NHL). Westbrook, a member of the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, also serves as chairman of the National Historic Landmarks Committee of the National Park Service Advisory Board.

The Camden Expedition Sites NHL nomination was prepared by AHPP staff to incorporate several properties not significant by themselves, but were deemed so collectively for their associations with the Camden Expeditions of 1864, part of the Red River Campaign.

This is the first time a group of discontiguous properties collectively received NHL status as being representative of a military campaign.

Properties included in the Camden Expedition are: the old U.S. Arsenal at Little Rock; Elkins Ferry on the Little Missouri River; Prairie DeAnne; the Confederate State Capital in Old Washington Historic State Park; Forts Lookout and Southerland; Poison Spring battlefield; Marks' Mills battlefield; and Jenkins' Ferry battlefield.