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About Frederick Steele
Major General Frederick Steele was an American military officer who served in the Army in the Mexican-American War, Yuma War, and American Civil War. He is most noted for capturing the Arkansas state capitol at Little Rock in 1863, escaping the besieged riverport city of Camden through successful deception tactics, and repulsing an attack by Confederate forces under generals Kirby Smith and Sterling Price at Jenkins' Ferry in 1864.
Everything about Frederick Steele →- Occupation
- army officer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- January 14, 1819
- Died
- January 12, 1868