Death and Burial
He served in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States as a colonel, commanding the 10th Missouri Infantry, CSA in the Battle of Prairie Grove in December 1862. He was killed during the fighting on December 7, 1862 and his body recovered and shipped to Fort Smith.
He is buried in the Fort Smith National Cemetery. A memorial to Unknown Confederate Dead, made of marble, commemorates Steen, as well as Brigadier General James M. McIntosh, an Arkansan who was killed at the Battle of Pea Ridge.
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