The history of the battle that took place here can be read on the markers at the bottom of this post. I’ll just add that it all seems a bit silly. The Union marched toward Little Rock. The Confederates burned the bridge across Bayou Meto and forced them to stop. The Union army backed up a ways, waited for the Confederates to leave, then moved forward again and took Little Rock. What remains is a seven-acre park with a cannon and a few markers. An old farm has been reconstructed on the site — to educate school children, I imagine.
This is pretty much the entire site. Bayou Meto is just beyond the trees to the left.
It looks like this. If I had a choice to try to get across it when people were shooting at me or wait a few days until the people left, I’d wait.
I walked the perimeter, saw everything there was to see, and spent maybe 15 minutes. Since it’s 45 minutes from my house, of course I was going to visit sometime, but I wouldn’t make a greater effort than that.
