Fort Smith National Cemetery — Attraction in Fort Smith

This stop can be quite dull if you just drive around and look at the tombstones. I recommend entering the visitors center prior to 4:30pm before they close and pick up the walking tour of the Fort Smith National Cemetery pamphlet. It's a very well written guide for 33 significant tombstones in the cemetery. It leads you to particular individuals grave sites and describes the historical significance of that individual. Some notables would be judge Isaac Parker, Brigadier General William O Darby, major William Bradford the founder of Fort Smith, Thomas Russell the first person laid to rest who was the surgeon of the original Fort Smith. The area of the Confederate soldiers, and the area of the black regiment soldiers. They're also beautiful War memorials to visit while you're...

Everybody that visits the area, must walk or drive through this garden of stones. Very humbling, veterans buried and there wives after, sometimes before. Not next one another but at least in spirit, sharing hallowed ground.

A true reason to reflect on what these people sacrificed for our country.

From the ones that fought during the Civil war, too the ones that fought overseas . Also the ones that fought the wars on the home front in the...

Beautiful, old cemetary in the industrial area of Ft Smith. It's quite large with many fields and memorials. Public restrooms and benches are available. There is a visitors center and a computer to research names and plots numbers, but it was broken when we stopped by. They did have a website provided, though. Well kept, clean, and every grave had a flag placed on it for Memorial Day, which was...