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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. AP - Two battlefields in Arkansas are among 10 selected by the Civil War Trust to get individual donations for land preservation matched 10-to-1 for the rest of the month.The ...
Author Mark Christ talked about his book [Civil War Arkansas 1863: The Battle for a State]. C-SPAN's Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their "2012 LCV Cities Tour" in Little Rock ...
Antietam is on this year's list of the 10 most-endangered Civil War battlefields prepared by the Civil War Preservation Trust, a District-based group that says land development is increasingly th.
In Civil War Arkansas, 1863, Mark K. Christ, the author of The Die Is Cast: Arkansas Goes to War, 1861, Ready, Booted, and Spurred: Arkansas in the U.S.- Mexican War, and several other works, gives us ...
A bit of history was given life and breath Saturday as thousands of spectators watched a band of Civil War enthusiasts re-enact the lives, and sometimes deaths, of the soldiers who fought in 1862 ...
In 1988, Sen. Dale Bumpers of Arkansas pleaded with his colleagues to pass legislation that would prevent a new shopping mall on land integral to the Second Battle of Manassas. He imagined a ...
REMEMBERING ARKANSAS: Civil War battles deeply affected southwest Arkansas May 6, 2007 at 7:06 a.m. by Tom Dillard ...
The Battle of Pea Ridge was fought in Northwest Arkansas on March 7 and 8, 1862.Hundreds of men were killed in the battle.The Union victory at Pea Ridge helped secure the west for the United ...
Pea Ridge is now one of the most intact Civil War battlefields in the entire country. During the day, the battlefield is a functioning national park. But at night, ghosts are said to relive the ...
In Civil War annals, the Battle of Pea Ridge is less known nationally than such storied battlefields as Bull Run, Antietam, Vicksburg and Gettysburg — although one historian did call it "the ...
502 Views Program ID: 305114-1 Category: Vignette Format: Vignette Location: Little Rock, Arkansas, United States First Aired: Mar 31, 2012 | 10:44am EDT | C-SPAN 3 ...