Engagement at Poison Spring, Arkansas

Engagement at Poison Spring, Arkansas - Multiple units engage at Poison Spring in Ouachita County, Arkansas on April 18, 1864. The battle is infamous for the Confederates' slaughter and mutilation of black Union troops rather than take them prisoner.

Union Troops

• 2nd Indiana (Independent) Light Artillery Battery (section)
• 18th Iowa Infantry
• 2nd Kansas Cavalry
• 6th Kansas Cavalry
• 14th Kansas Cavalry
• 1st Kansas (Colored) Infantry

Casualties

• Union: 92 killed, 97 wounded, 106 captured/missing = Total 295

Sub-Operations

• March 10-May 22, 1864 - The Red River Campaign
  • March 23-May 3, 1864 - Expedition from Little Rock to Camden, Arkansas

Sources

• Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 641, 673, 683)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Poison_Spring