The Arsenal Crisis with Dr. David Sesser

Museum presentation / Civil War Roundtable of Arkansas · February 26, 2026

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Welcome and event framing

Announcement

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Steven McAteer, museum director, opened the event, thanked attendees, and said the evening's talk (in partnership with the Civil War Roundtable of Arkansas) will provide a 'sense of place' about Little Rock and the Arsenal 165 years earlier (February 1861).

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Lecture at the museum recounting the Little Rock Arsenal crisis of February 1861, describing tensions between Arkansas governor Henry Rector and U.S. Army Captain James Totten, the arrival of volunteer militia, telegraph-fueled rumors, and the February 8 surrender/entrustment of weapons to the governor ahead of a secession vote.

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