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Battle of Poison Spring (view source)
Revision as of 16:13, December 23, 2010
, 16:13, December 23, 2010Created page with "{{ACWbattle |name=Battle of Poison Spring |image= |begin=April 18, 1864 |end=Same day |place=Ouachita County, Arkansas |theater=Trans-Mississippi Theater |campaign=Camden Exp..."
{{ACWbattle
|name=Battle of Poison Spring
|image=
|begin=April 18, 1864
|end=Same day
|place=Ouachita County, [[Arkansas]]
|theater=Trans-Mississippi Theater
|campaign=Camden Expedition
|result=Confederate victory
|combatants1=
|combatants2=Marmaduke’s and Maxey’s Divisions
|commanders1=[[James M. Williams]]<br/>Colonel, USA
|commanders2=[[John S. Marmaduke]]<br/>Brigadier General, CSA<br/>[[Samuel Bell Maxey]]<br/>Brigadier General, CSA
|strength1=1,100
|strength2=
|casualties1='''301'''
|casualties2='''114'''
}}
Dwindling supplies for his army at Camden forced Maj. Gen. [[Frederick Steele]] to send out a foraging party to gather corn that the Confederates had stored about twenty miles up the Prairie D’Ane-Camden Road on White Oak Creek. The party loaded the corn into wagons, and on April 18, Col. James M. Williams started his return to Camden. Brig. Gen. [[John S. Marmaduke]]’s and Brig. Gen. [[Samuel B. Maxey]]’s Confederate forces arrived at Lee Plantation, about fifteen miles from Camden, where they engaged Williams. The Rebels eventually attacked Williams in the front and rear forcing him to retreat north into a marsh where his men regrouped and then fell back to Camden. The Union lost 198 wagons and all the corn. (''NPS summary'')
{{Template:Campaignbox Camden}}
{{Template:ACW Battles of 1864}}
[[Category:American Civil War Battles]]
|name=Battle of Poison Spring
|image=
|begin=April 18, 1864
|end=Same day
|place=Ouachita County, [[Arkansas]]
|theater=Trans-Mississippi Theater
|campaign=Camden Expedition
|result=Confederate victory
|combatants1=
|combatants2=Marmaduke’s and Maxey’s Divisions
|commanders1=[[James M. Williams]]<br/>Colonel, USA
|commanders2=[[John S. Marmaduke]]<br/>Brigadier General, CSA<br/>[[Samuel Bell Maxey]]<br/>Brigadier General, CSA
|strength1=1,100
|strength2=
|casualties1='''301'''
|casualties2='''114'''
}}
Dwindling supplies for his army at Camden forced Maj. Gen. [[Frederick Steele]] to send out a foraging party to gather corn that the Confederates had stored about twenty miles up the Prairie D’Ane-Camden Road on White Oak Creek. The party loaded the corn into wagons, and on April 18, Col. James M. Williams started his return to Camden. Brig. Gen. [[John S. Marmaduke]]’s and Brig. Gen. [[Samuel B. Maxey]]’s Confederate forces arrived at Lee Plantation, about fifteen miles from Camden, where they engaged Williams. The Rebels eventually attacked Williams in the front and rear forcing him to retreat north into a marsh where his men regrouped and then fell back to Camden. The Union lost 198 wagons and all the corn. (''NPS summary'')
{{Template:Campaignbox Camden}}
{{Template:ACW Battles of 1864}}
[[Category:American Civil War Battles]]