SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 2013

Old State House Museum

300 West Markham - Little Rock

Refreshments at 2:00 - Program at 2:30

Dust, Sun and Sweltering Heat: The Campaign to Capture Little Rock

Presented By: Mark Christ

This program will explore the 1863 campaign that led to Union occupation of Little Rock, including the Marmaduke-Walker duel and the battles of Bayou Meto and Bayou Fourche. With the capture of Little Rock and the simultaneous occupation of Fort Smith, Union forces would retain tenuous control of the Arkansas River Valley for the remainder of the war, splitting the Trans-Mississippi Confederacy in two.

The Third Minnesota Infantry Regiment

at the Old State House, ca. 1863

Mark Christ is Community Outreach Director for the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage. He joined the AHPP in 1990 after eight years as a professional journalist. A 1982 graduate of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, he received his Master’s degree in 2000 from the University of Oklahoma. He is a member of the Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission, serves as chairman of the board of directors of the Arkansas Humanities Council and is a member of the board of trustees of the Arkansas Historical Association. He has written and edited several books, including “Rugged and Sublime” The Civil War in Arkansas, Sentinels of History: Reflections on Arkansas Properties Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, which won an Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History, “Getting Used To Being Shot At”: The Spence Family Civil War Letters, “All Cut to Pieces and Gone to Hell”: The Civil War, Race Relations and the Battle of Poison Spring, “The Earth Shook and Trees Trembled”: Civil War Arkansas 1863-1864, “The Die is Cast: Arkansas Goes to War, 1861,” and Civil War Arkansas, 1863: The Battle for a State, which won the 2010 Douglas Southall Freeman Award. The Butler Center for Arkansas Studies will publish his next book, The Diary of Jacob Haas as a Soldier in the Civil War, in 2014.

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