Confederates capture Steele's forage train at Poison Spring
April 18, 1864, Poison Spring, Arkansas.
- Date
- April 18, 1864
- Where
- Poison Spring, Arkansas
- What happened
- Captured
- Event
- 99 of 174
Short of supplies at Camden, Steele sent a detachment to seize 5,000 bushels of corn. Marmaduke's and Maxey's cavalry routed the foraging party, which lost its wagon train and four cannon, and soldiers of the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry were massacred. The site is Poison Springs Battleground State Park.
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