Lieutenant Adam B. Smith and the Battle of Helena
Adam Burns Smith enlisted in a company being organized at Jefferson City, Missouri on August 14, 1862. The men soon joined other companies at Benton Barracks in St. Louis where…
Adam Burns Smith enlisted in a company being organized at Jefferson City, Missouri on August 14, 1862. The men soon joined other companies at Benton Barracks in St. Louis where…
Battery C was one of four forts established by the Union army to protect Helena from an expected Confederate attack. That attack came on July 4, 1863 when a rebel…
After crossing the Mississippi River Bridge and turning right on the way into Downtown Helena, Freedom Park is the second civil war related site you will encounter. This beautiful…
The Delta of Arkansas and Mississippi in the 1850s was a hard place to live. There was disease, flooding and violence. It took a special kind of person to live…
The U.S.S. Tyler was a timberclad warship of the United States Navy during the Civil War. She was one of three wooden steam ships purchased in 1861 by the…