The Confederate Army constructed an earthen fortification near Arkansas Post to protect the Arkansas River and as a base for disrupting shipping on the Mississippi River. The fort was named Fort Hindman in honor of General Thomas C. Hindman of Arkansas. The fortification was seized by a Federal amphibious force backed by ironclad warships.
The results of the battle were 6,547 total casualties and an end to Confederate interference with Union shipping. US forces suffered 1,047 casualties, while the Confederate forces suffered about 5,500 casualties.
Battle of ArkansasPost by Luke J. Caraway of Granbury, Texas - Confederate Veteran March 1906
S.S. Cox, of New York, said of the battle of ArkansasPost in his history of the War between the States: “The capture of the ArkansasPost was made on January 11, 1863.
The Confederate army, consisting of Carter’s Brigade and other regiments, were put in charge of this post in the fall of 1862, and remained there drilling, eating poor pumpkins, mean sorghum, and coarse corn bread very well contented, as the winter was unusually mild until just before the battle and our surrender.
The Battle of Fort Hindman, or the Battle of ArkansasPost, was fought from January9 to January 11, 1863, near the mouth of the Arkansas River at ArkansasPost, Arkansas, as part of the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War.
The Confederate Army constructed an earthen fortification near ArkansasPost, forty-five miles downriver from Pine Bluff, to protect the Arkansas River and as a base for disrupting shipping on the Mississippi River.
The fort was named Fort Hindman in honor of General Thomas C. Hindman of Arkansas.
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