Our Confederate Dead

Historical marker location:

35 South 6th Street, Fort Smith, Arkansas

( Memorial is at the intersection of Rogers Avenue and 6th Street (Arkansas Highway 255), on the right when traveling east on Rogers Avenue.)

Marker installed: 1903

1861 - 1865.

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.