{"id":2268,"date":"2010-06-18T15:37:33","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T20:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?p=2268"},"modified":"2010-06-18T15:38:30","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T20:38:30","slug":"battle-of-jenkins-ferry-april-30-1864","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/06\/18\/battle-of-jenkins-ferry-april-30-1864\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of Jenkins’ Ferry (April 30, 1864)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Battle of Jenkins’ Ferry took place in Grant county, Arkansas on April 30, 1864 as Confederate forces attempted to Union General Frederick Steele\u2019s<\/a> forces retreated across the Saline River. While Confederates attacked several times, they could not stop Steele\u2019s men from crossing the river with their supplies. Andrew F. Sperry, who served with the 33rd Iowa Infantry Regiment, described <\/a>the battle after the war:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe conflict was terrible to experience, but brief to tell. Seven mortal hours, with such fierce vigor and determination that the fire of musketry became one undistinguishable and unbroken roar. Charge after charge was made by the yelling rebels, only to be broken upon our line, or if possibly succeeding for a moment, to give way at last to a charge of still deeper and more deadly determination from our own brave men.\u201d<\/p>\n

Confederates \u201cforgot\u2026the valor of Steele\u2019s soldiers,\u201d as another Union veteran explained<\/a>.\u00a0Some estimates put the total number of casualties 964<\/a> (Union 521, CSA 443), including several Union and Confederate generals \u2013 Samuel Rice<\/a>, Horace Randal, and William Scurry<\/a>. Randal and Scurry were, as Confederate General Gen. William R. Boggs observed<\/a>, \u201ctwo of our best officers.\u201d\u00a0Confederates could have destroyed Steele\u2019s army, but were unable to take advantage of the opportunity. Joseph Blessington, who served in Walker\u2019s Texas Division, believed that<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cHad General Walker received reinforcements when he asked for them, he would have destroyed the enemy, and perhaps have captured their entire army. Attacked in front, on the flank, and in the rear, they could not possibly have escaped; and if they did escape, it would be with the loss of thousands of prisoners, and all his artillery and wagons, while the field would have been strewed with his dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Teachers can find an overview of this battle and several pictures at the Jenkins’ Ferry State Park website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Battle of Jenkins’ Ferry took place in Grant county, Arkansas on April 30, 1864 as Confederate forces attempted to Union General Frederick Steele\u2019s forces retreated across the Saline River. While Confederates attacked several times, they could not stop Steele\u2019s men from crossing the river with their supplies. Andrew F. Sperry, who served with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,156,12],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-2268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-images","category-maps","tag-battles-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2421,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions\/2421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}