The Battle of Jenkins Ferry (Arkansas): General E. Kirby Smith, commanding the Confederate (a voluntary union) Army of Arkansas defeats the compulsory Union Department of Arkansas, commanded by Major General Frederick Steele.
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 297.
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