After skirmishing for several days at Prairie D’Ane, Gen. Frederick Steele turned his starving Union army away from Louisiana and headed toward Camden to seek supplies. Confederate cavalry under T.P. Dockery and S.B. Maxey attacked Steele’s rear guard, the Frontier Division from Fort Smith, at the village of Moscow on April 13, 1864. Union cavalry, infantry, and artillery fought back, driving the Confederates several miles before breaking off and marching to rejoin Steele. U.S. losses were 7 dead and 24 hurt, while Confederate losses were not reported. Moscow was also a village and trade center on the road between Camden and Washington when the Civil War broke out. The Moscow Methodist Church had been established as early as 1842, but the oldest marked grave in the adjacent cemetery is dated 1864. The Cairo and Fulton Railroad founded Prescott in 1873, leading to Moscow’s decline, though the Moscow Cemetery served as the burial ground for the new city until 1880 and some of the area’s most prominent citizens are buried there. In the late 19th century, Moscow served as a Methodist Protestant Church.