I greatly enjoyed your postings and the postings of others with regard to the above referenced subject. I clearly am over my head in this discussion, but I learned a lot.

I have two related inquiries.

First, it is my understanding that General Price spent a significant amount of time and resources fortifying an area in North Little Rock that ran roughly from the river and through dark hollow, with some artillery on park hill. I further have read that it was known that the river could be forded at several locations south of Little Rock, therefore rendering the North Little Rock fortifications and such an effort on the fortifications ill advised. Is this information accurate?

Secondly, though I have not lived in Arkansas in many years, I grew up in North Little Rock and I remember my Daddy driving me by an old plantation house on the old Memphis Highway and telling me that two Confederate Generals fought a duel there. I must assume that the location is where the Marmaduke-Walker duel happened. It was in an area of town known as Rose City. If so, does the house still stand and/or is there a maker to designate the site.

Thanks in advance,

David Shelby Knight