Fort Smith under Union occupation
Army post, Fort Smith, Arkansas.
- Side
- Union
- Kind
- Army post
- Where
- Fort Smith, Arkansas
- Years
- 1863-1865
- Today
- Park
FORT SMITH
Union troops took Fort Smith on September 1, 1863 and held it to the end of the war. Steamboats ran a dangerous supply line up the Arkansas River from Little Rock. On January 17, 1865 Confederates destroyed three steamers carrying refugees from Fort Smith.
Then
Union troops took Fort Smith on September 1, 1863 and held it to the end of the war. Steamboats ran a vital supply line up the Arkansas River from Little Rock to Fort Smith, a particularly dangerous passage.
Confederates tried to take the steamer Alamo above Dardanelle on November 29, 1864, and on January 17, 1865 destroyed three of four steamers carrying refugees from Fort Smith to Little Rock at Ivy's Ford.
Now
Park
The fort site is Fort Smith National Historic Site.
Track in service today runs beside the site, on a line owned by a smaller railroad.