Battle of Backbone Mountain

Historical marker location:

Pocola, Oklahoma

( Marker is at the intersection of State Highway 112 and Hardin Lane, on the right when traveling north on State Highway 112.)

Marker installed: 1995

Union forces, led by Major General James G. Blunt, and Confederate troops, commanded by Brigadier General William L. Cabell, skirmished here in September of 1863. On July 27, 1864, a Choctaw battalion under the command of Captain Jackson McCurtain defeated federal troops nearby.