Editing Cleveland County, Arkansas (section)

==History==
The Arkansas legislature established Dorsey County as Arkansas's 71st county on April 17, 1873, naming it for [[Stephen W. Dorsey]], the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] from Arkansas. When he was indicted for defrauding the Post Office, they renamed it on March 5, 1885, for [[Grover Cleveland]], the newly elected [[President of the United States]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=757|title= Cleveland County|publisher= The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture|access-date=August 21, 2012}}</ref>

The [[Battle of Marks' Mills]], the pivotal engagement in the Union Army's ill-fated [[Camden Expedition]] during the [[U.S. Civil War]], took place in what is now Cleveland County. This engagement resulted in a crushing victory for [[Confederate States Army|Confederate forces]], though the victory ultimately proved to be hollow when Federal General [[Frederick Steele]] and the rest of his army managed to escape from Camden to [[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]].