New exhibits at the Old State House Museum and the Historic Arkansas Museum in Little Rock, re-enactments at Batesville and Lunenburg and the opening of a special collection in Gentry are among the events the Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission has sanctioned for May.

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Among the May events:

The Civil War in Arkansas, featuring artifacts from the collection of Little Rock’s Historic Arkansas Museum, is open; call (501) 324-9351 for more information.

Quantrill Special Collections Research Center Opening Ceremony will be held May 19 and a presentation on Quantrill/Northwest Arkansas: Bound by Battle will be held May 21 at the Gentry Public Library in Gentry; call (479) 736-2054.

Civil War Roundtable of Arkansas will host a free lecture on Armies of the Western and Eastern Theater and Their Differences by Roger Pauley of the University of Central Arkansas at Second Presbyterian Church in Little Rock May 22; e-mail RMeadows@aaamissouri.com.

Civil War Arkansas, 1863-1865, the ACWSC’s traveling exhibit, will be at the Grant County Museum in Sheridan May 21-June 3; call (501) 324-5761.

Portraits in Gray: A Civil War Photography Exhibition will be on display at the Rogers Historical Museum during May; call (479) 621-1154.

Washington 1861: A Community Decides exhibit will continue at Historic Washington State Park during May; call (870) 983-2684.

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