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Civil War battle fought January     9, 11, 1863

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the civil war battle was fought in arkansas post, arkansas

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Rear Admiral David D. Porter and Major General John A. McClernand where the generals for the North or union.

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Brigadier General Thomas J. Churchill was the general for the South.

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1,061 people died while they were fighting in the arkansas post civil war

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A combined land-river assault by Union forces on the Confederate Fort Hindman, which loomed over a bend in the Arkansas River near the town of Arkansas Post.

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the union won with a little over 1,000 soldiers deaths and a little under 5,000 confederates deaths

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The defeat at Arkansas Post cost Confederate Arkansas fully one-fourth of its armed forces in the largest surrender of Rebel troops west of the Mississippi River prior to the final capitulation of the Confederates in 1865.
it did ease the movement of Union shipping on the Mississippi and raise the morale of the Yankee troops after their rough handling at Chickasaw Bluffs.