Engagement, St. Charles, White River was a Civil War engagement fought in Arkansas, 1862. It was a Union victory.
At St. Charles, Arkansas, on June 17, 1862, Union and Confederate forces clashed in an engagement whose roots lay in a stalled campaign earlier that year. Major General Samuel R. Curtis had led an Army force toward Little Rock, only to find his advance stuck near Batesville once supplies ran short. In response, Union commanders arranged to send warships from Memphis, Tennessee, northward along the White River in hopes of reaching Curtis's stranded troops with fresh provisions.
Anticipating this move, Confederate Major General Thomas C. Hindman, who held command in Arkansas, ordered defenses built near St. Charles to block the river approach. His men raised two artillery emplacements and sank three vessels, one of them the CSS Maurepas, to choke off the channel and halt the Union advance.
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