- Joined
- Apr 8, 2018
- Location
- Coffeeville, TX
South of Fort Smith is a little town called Waldron, nestled in the Ouachita Mountains in a little valley with a little river no one has ever heard of. I've never looked into the CW history of that area, but have passed through a few times. I mainly ever remember it because between Mena and Waldron, is a little community called "Y City" and has some beautiful country.
I kind of got curious about the CW in that area, after James N. brought up the region in another thread, which I thought was almost non-existent due to the mountains acting as a shield to SW Arkansas much like Van Dorn and Hindman used the Boston Mountains as a shield for Fort Smith and the Arkansas River Valley. I found this so far:
Waldron, Attacks on - Encyclopedia of Arkansas
Anyone else know anything about this? Or the war in the Ouachitas at all? Apparently Ed Bearss wrote an article about it, making me wonder if his old book on Fort Smith might hold clues. Nearest Battle to the region of good size would probably be the Battle of Devil's Backbone, which I think the States of Arkansas and Oklahoma are still arguing which State it was fought in.
I've done got curious, and I'm sure it might be of interest to other folks. Especially if they've run around the area, which sorry I don't have pictures as I'm always just passing through. Anyone who's seen the area would know that place would be a nightmare to fight a CW battle or even skirmish in. Unless you were playing defense....
I kind of got curious about the CW in that area, after James N. brought up the region in another thread, which I thought was almost non-existent due to the mountains acting as a shield to SW Arkansas much like Van Dorn and Hindman used the Boston Mountains as a shield for Fort Smith and the Arkansas River Valley. I found this so far:
Waldron, Attacks on - Encyclopedia of Arkansas
Anyone else know anything about this? Or the war in the Ouachitas at all? Apparently Ed Bearss wrote an article about it, making me wonder if his old book on Fort Smith might hold clues. Nearest Battle to the region of good size would probably be the Battle of Devil's Backbone, which I think the States of Arkansas and Oklahoma are still arguing which State it was fought in.
I've done got curious, and I'm sure it might be of interest to other folks. Especially if they've run around the area, which sorry I don't have pictures as I'm always just passing through. Anyone who's seen the area would know that place would be a nightmare to fight a CW battle or even skirmish in. Unless you were playing defense....