Editing Hot Springs, Arkansas (section)

===Civil War===
The outbreak of the [[American Civil War]] left Hot Springs with a declining bathing population.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cityhs.net/DocumentCenter/View/183/History?bidId= |title=Archived copy |website=www.cityhs.net |access-date=January 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803232143/https://www.cityhs.net/DocumentCenter/View/183/History?bidId= |archive-date=August 3, 2020 |url-status=dead}}</ref> After the [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] forces suffered defeat in the [[Battle of Pea Ridge]] in March 1862, the [[Union Army|Union]] troops advanced toward the Confederate city of [[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]]. Confederate Governor [[Henry M. Rector]] moved his staff and state records to Hot Springs. Union forces did not attack Little Rock, and the government returned to the capital city on July 14, 1862.

Many residents of Hot Springs fled to [[Texas]] or [[Louisiana]] and remained there until the end of the war. In September 1863, Union forces occupied Little Rock. During this period, Hot Springs became the prey of [[guerrilla]] bands loosely associated with either Union or Confederate forces. They pillaged and burned the near-deserted town, leaving only a few buildings standing at the end of the Civil War.<ref name="Paige1987">{{cite book | last = Paige | first = John C | author2 = Laura Woulliere Harrison | title = Out of the Vapors: A Social and Architectural History of Bathhouse Row, Hot Springs National Park | publisher = U.S. Department of the Interior | year = 1987 | url = http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/hosp/bathhouse_row.pdf | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090225013243/http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/hosp/bathhouse_row.pdf | archive-date = February 25, 2009 }}</ref>