Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Shelby's Raid bụ 1863 Confederate cavalry raid si Arkansas n'ime Missouri n'oge American Civil War. Ọ bụghị afọ dị mma maka ndị Confederates na Arkansas na ọtụtụ ihe ndọghachi azụ. Ndị a gụnyere ọnwụ nke
Little Rock isi obodo steeti ahụ, Fort Hindman, na ọdịda nke iweghachite Helena. Ọchịagha Joseph Shelby chere na mwakpo na-aga ngwa ngwa nwere ike ịkwalite mmụọ, nweta ndị ọhụrụ, ma mee ka ndị agha gọọmentị nọrọ n'ọrụ ka ha wee ghara inye aka na ọrụ ndị Northern n'ebe ndị ọzọ. Ndị agha ya lụrụ ọtụtụ ọgụ ma kpatara ọtụtụ ọgba aghara na Missouri, na-eme ka ọ dị anya n'ebe ugwu dị ka Waverly, Missouri, tupu ịlaghachi Arkansas. Mwakpo a mere ka aha Shelby dị ka ọchịagha ndị agha ịnyịnya sie ike ma mee ka o doo anya na Missouri ka nwere ike ịdaba n'ụdị mwakpo ndị agha ịnyịnya a.