Civil War | Historic Site
Fort Southerland Park
Arkansas
Bradley Ferry Road
Camden, AR 71701
United States
Fort Southerland represents an excellently preserved example of urban Civil War defensive earthworks, erected along the periphery of Camden in 1864 in anticipation of a Federal attack from Little Rock.
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