Little Rock Arsenal
Arsenal, Little Rock, Arkansas.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Arsenal
- Where
- Little Rock, Arkansas
- Years
- 1861-1863
- Today
- Museum
LITTLE ROCK ARSENAL
State officials took the arsenal on February 8, 1861. Reopened by the Confederates in August 1862 as an ordnance works, it made mostly buck and ball ammunition. Stores went to Arkadelphia in late August 1863, and Little Rock surrendered on September 11, 1863.
Then
State officials took the arsenal on February 8, 1861. After its machinery was shipped east in 1862, the Confederates reopened it in August 1862 as an ordnance works making mostly buck and ball ammunition.
Stores were shipped to Arkadelphia in late August 1863, and Little Rock surrendered to Frederick Steele's troops on September 11, 1863.
Now
Museum
The Tower Building houses the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History.
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by Union Pacific, about 0.5 miles away.
Nearby
- 1 miLittle Rock under Union occupationUnion · Depot, Little Rock, Arkansas
- 4 miLittle Rock falls and Price burns its railroad equipmentSeptember 10, 1863, Little Rock, Arkansas
- 46 miDeValls Bluff supply depotUnion · Depot, DeValls Bluff, Arkansas
- 57 miWhite County salt worksConfederate · Salt works, Bald Knob, Arkansas
- 62 miArkadelphia ordnance works and depotConfederate · Ordnance works, Arkadelphia, Arkansas
- 66 miFagan captures Steele's supply train at Marks' MillsApril 25, 1864, Marks' Mills, Arkansas