Victory Fire Bell

1889

This bell was rung

at the end of

these wars.

Marker is on Russell Avenue near 4th Street, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Site of First Store

Lardner Clark came from Philadelphia in the early 1780's with ten horses packed with piece goods, needles and pins. He established Nashville's first drygoods store by 1786, on a site 30 yards east. The building, which served as store, tavern ...

Battle Bigger's Ferry 1780

Battle Bigger's Ferry 1780,

3 mi. east of this point on Catawba River between

Lord Rawdon's and Sumter's Forces. Whigs commanded by Cols. Hill and Lacey.

New Aquisition School attended by Pres. Andrew Jackson 1779 and the widow Howe's cottage where he boarded ...

Battle of Chattanooga, 3d Day, Nov. 25.

During the night of Nov. 24, 1863, Bragg's forces withdrew from the plain and Lookout and joined those on Missionary Ridge, occupying it from Rossville to Tunnel Hill, and a spur thence eastward to the Chickamauga. Sherman early on the ...

Welcome to Fort Smith

Founded in 1817 by the U.S. Army to contain a volatile Indian feud, Fort Smith later served as a major supply depot for western military posts, and finally as headquarters of the Federal Court for the Western District of Arkansas. ...

Meeting of Nations

The Fort Smith Council was held in this building in September 1865. To establish relations following the Civil War, delegates of twelve Indian nations met with President Andrew Johnson’s representatives. Bitterly divided, Indians had fought for both sides in the ...

Confederates Occupy The Fort

At the beginnings of the Civil War, “amid the firing of cannon and the cheers of the people,” a local newspaper reported, Arkansas State Militia raised the Confederate flag and took control of Fort Smith on April 23, 1861.

With the ...

Executions at Fort Smith

During the twenty-four years the federal executions took place in Fort Smith, eighty-seven men died on the gallows. While Judge Isaac C. Parker sat on the bench, 160 people, including four women, were sentenced to hang. Just over half received ...

Defending Freedom

I never saw such fighting done as was done the negro regiment…The question that negroes will fight is settled; besides they make better soldiers in every respect than any troops I have ever had under my command. ~General Blunt after ...

Fort Wall

Security has always been a concern for the U.S. military. The army designed the second Fort Smith (1838-1871) as part of line of forts from Minnesota to Louisiana to separate the territory occupied by Native American tribes from that settled ...