Civil War | Museum
McCollum-Chidester House Museum
Arkansas
926 West Washington Street
Camden, AR 71701
United States
This house, built in 1847, retains its original furnishings brought here by steamboat in 1863 by the Chidester family. Union Gen. Frederick Steele made this house his headquarters when he occupied the city of Camden in 1864, during the Battle of Poison Spring.
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