Historical Arkansas events and birthdays occurring on May 9. ChatGPH has collected this data.
Skirmish at Eudora Church (May 9, 1864)
During the Civil War, a detachment of the Mississippi Marine Brigade under Captain E.G. Hughes engaged a small band of Confederate irregulars at Eudora Church in Chicot County. The Union force drove off the attackers with minimal losses and secured the area around Bayou Macon for several weeks afterward…