{"id":2639,"slug":"marks-mills-battlefield-new-edinburg-arkansas","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Marks' Mills is the lost — the 'all wagons' that's the capture's size, the '1,500' that's the Union's toll. The 'civilians followed' is the fled — the '300 black' that's the refugees' count, the 'safety sought' that's the train's aim. The 'mill named' is the older — the '1834' that's the Marks's build, the 'junction' that's the roads' cross.","The 'ambushed dawn' is the struck — the 'Fagan waited' that's the trap's set, the '2,000 cavalry' that's the attackers' size. The 'second disaster' is the paired — the 'Poison Spring' that's the week's first, the 'retreat forced' that's the Steele's end. Marks' Mills is the accused — the 'massacre claimed' that's the black soldiers' fate, the 'accusation' that's the record's keep.","The file keeps Marks' Mills: the lost train, the fled civilians, the older mill, and the claimed massacre.","Marks' Mills is the archive's Arkansas file — the ambush that broke Steele's supply."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Marks' Mills is the archive's Arkansas file — the supply run that never arrived.","A junction keeps its trap — the file's suggestion being that Marks' Mills' hold is the lost: the 'all captured' that's the wagons' fate, the '300 civilians' that's the train's weight, and the 'accused' that's the record's dark."]}],"name":"Marks’ Mills Battlefield","aliases":[],"type":"BATTLEFIELD","type_label":"Battlefield","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","CIVIL_WAR"],"groups":["dark-history","legends"],"desc":"April 25, 1864—the wagon train swallowed whole.","full_desc":"A battlefield in New Edinburg, Arkansas, Marks’ Mills Battlefield is filed here for what the record attaches to it. April 25, 1864—the wagon train swallowed whole. HauntHunt files it with the Civil War, dark history and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The ground is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"New Edinburg","county":null,"state":"Arkansas","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":33.756223,"lon":-92.240365,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":"Historic site","research_notes":"AR batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":2185,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures at the battlefield crossroads. The fort's documented violence is the soil the reports grow in — New Edinburg, Arkansas keeps both on file. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. Sources including 'Marks’ Mills' keep the claim in circulation. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Marks’ Mills","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Marks%27_Mills","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The April 25, 1864 capture of the Union train is documented. Marks’ Mills Battlefield's service record is documented — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath the garrison lore. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The detail is preserved in 'Marks’ Mills'. The record keeps it — history, not lore.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":"1864-04-25","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Marks’ Mills","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Marks%27_Mills","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Reported figures at the battlefield crossroads. The fort's documented violence is the soil the reports grow in — New Edinburg, Arkansas keeps both on file. The claim is neighborhood knowledge — retold locally, verified nowhere. The story outranks the documentation, which is how you know it's folklore.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Marks’ Mills","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Marks%27_Mills","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Battlefield site; interpretive trails or markers are typically available. Check the managing agency for hours.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Marks’ Mills","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Marks%27_Mills","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}