Battle of Brownsville, Arkansas

The Battle of Brownsville, sometimes called the Skirmish at Brownsville, was an engagement of the American Civil War which occurred on August 25, 1863, in the town of Brownsville, Arkansas. The skirmish involved a combined force of 7,000 men from the Confederate Army and the Union Army. Confederate forces fell back and warded off a Union attack, then, after a short artillery battle, Colonel Washington Geiger finally forced Brigadier General Marmaduke's Confederate forces to retreat down the Military Road. The engagement was the first in a series of engagements which led to the capture of Little Rock in September by the Union.