<i>A Gallant Charge</i>

Historical marker location:

South First Street, Jacksonville, Arkansas

( Marker is on South First Street (Arkansas Route 161) 0.3 miles south of Carver Lane, on the right when traveling south.)

The First Iowa Cavalry Charges Burning Reed's Bridge.

Arkansas was part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, which was the largest land acquisition in U.S. history, and the state was later admitted to the Union as the 25th state on June 15, 1836.