1. Although it has been dug into and is now overgrown, the Cavanaugh Mound still exists next to a trailer park near the intersection of Cavanaugh Road and Jenny Lind Road.

2. Tradition maintains that the Belle Point bluff was greatly reduced by quarrying for stone. It's present appearance is not regarded by most to be indicative of the way in which it appeared to early European explorers of the area. Reportedly, the stone was used for the fort and other buildings.

3. John Rogers played a significant part in the getting the Army to return and re-establish the second Fort Smith.

4. Reportedly, the two physicians that Pike and Roane refused to attend them should they reload and each attempt again to kill the other. Both duelists missed each other on the first try. Pike and Roane shook hands on the matter in dispute and agreed to never speak of it again.

5. Fort Smith had its share of secessionists during all phases of the Civil War, but it may have been predominantly Unionist in sentiment. Some of the first wartime, state efforts at political reconstruction and restoring loyal government had their origins in Fort Smith in 1863. William Meade Fishback, a Fort Smith attorney and delegate to the secessionist convention, was one of the leaders of the Unionist movement in western Arkansas before Appomattox.