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The Bayou Meto Battlefield, also known as Reed's Bridge Battlefield Heritage Park, is a battlefield in
Jacksonville, Arkansas Jacksonville is a city in Pulaski County, Arkansas, United States, and a suburb of Little Rock. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city was 28,364. It is part of the Little Rock–North Little Rock– Conway Metropolitan Statistical Are ...
. It is the location of the August 27, 1863, Battle of Bayou Meto, in which
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forces successfully prevented
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forces from crossing the
Bayou Meto River Bayou Meto is a tributary of the Arkansas River in the U.S. state of Arkansas. Its headwaters are at Wilson Hill, in Faulkner County, Arkansas a few miles east of Camp Robinson State Wildlife Management Area. Bayou Meto meanders southeast, fee ...
during their advance to capture
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.


Description and administrative history

The battlefield is located on both sides of the river, on either side of
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, whose bridge is the location of the 1863 Reed's Bridge. A portion of the battlefield is preserved as Reed's Bridge Battlefield Heritage Park. The entire battlefield is the best-preserved of the three major battle sites of the Union advance on Little Rock. A area covering the core of the battlefield was listed on the
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in 2002.


See also

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Pulaski County, Arkansas __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Pulaski County, Arkansas. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pulaski County, Ark ...


References


External links

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Reed's Bridge Battlefield
at
American Battlefield Trust The American Battlefield Trust is a charitable organization ( 501(c)(3)) whose primary focus is in the preservation of battlefields of the American Civil War, the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 through acquisition of battlefield land. Th ...
{{Authority control American Civil War on the National Register of Historic Places Battlefields of the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War Conflict sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Jacksonville, Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Pulaski County, Arkansas Protected areas of Pulaski County, Arkansas