On Aug. 28, 1864, Confederate Gen. Sterling Price led an army from Camden on a raid through Missouri, Kansas and the Indian Territory before returning to Arkansas at Laynesport in Little River County on Dec. 2 after suffering heavy losses. Many of Price's Missouri troops established a camp at Richmond on Dec. 5, recovering from the campaign's rigors while waiting to learn where their winter camp would be located, and they left on Dec. 24 to join the rest of the army at Washington. Around 1850, Judge Robert H. Scott and his wife, Sarah Nicholson Scott, donated about 5 acres for a Baptist church and cemetery near their home about 2 miles east of Richmond. Lewis W. Davis, whose son Jeff would later serve as Arkansas governor and U.S. Senator, preached there. Confederate soldiers who died while camped nearby for 3 weeks in December 1864 were buried in the cemetery, several of Judge Scott's relatives who fought in the war lie in the family plot, and as many church members left the area, the church was sold and moved in 1869.