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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNS8_cumberland-presbyterian-church_Prairie-Grove-AR.html
Site of the firstCumberland Presbyterian Church. Used as a hospital duringthe battle of PrairieGrove 1862 markedby Prairie GroveChapter U.D.C. 1930.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNOQ_west-battlefield-overlook_Prairie-Grove-AR.html
(Panels from Left to Right)(First Panel):At the time of the battle, Nancy Morton lived with her parents in the William Morton house west of this location. When the fighting intensified in the area, the Mortons and three other families scrambled in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNOM_29th-arkansas-infantry_Prairie-Grove-AR.html
Brothers Columbus and Ad Gray of Company D, 29th Arkansas Infantry, withstood the first Union assault and counterattacked with Sergeant Ad Gray in the lead. Columbus Gray wrote home after seeing his brother fall mortally wounded:"I stopped, squatt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNOG_lieutenant-colonel-john-c-black_Prairie-Grove-AR.html
Lieutenant Colonel John C. Black, 37th Illinois Infantry, ordered the retreat of his regiment and the 26th Indiana to a fence at the foot of the ridge. There, the men faced a Confederate counterattack. Captain William P. Black, brother of Lieutena…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNOE_26th-indiana-and-37th-illinois-infantry_Prairie-Grove-AR.html
The 26th Indiana Infantry and the 37th Illinois Infantry made another attack up the ridge. Colonel John G. Clark, 26th Indiana, U.S.A., wrote:"The regiment was ... ordered on the left of the 37th Illinois...Soon after...the were ordered to charge …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNOA_the-dead-of-prairie-grove_Prairie-Grove-AR.html
The men who died on this field on December 7, 1862 are buried in the soldier cemeteries in Fayetteville. 700 unknown Confederate soldiers are in the cemetery maintained by the Southern Memorial Association on East Mountain. The Union dead are in t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNO9_herrons-attack_Prairie-Grove-AR.html
From this spot the observer is viewing the fields over which General F.J. Herron's army advanced on the morning of December 7, 1862, to attack the Confederate position on this ridge. Because the ford of the Illinois River was under artillery fire,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNO5_blochers-arkansas-battery_Prairie-Grove-AR.html
Blocher's Arkansas Battery was the focal point of the Union attacks. A sergeant in the battery reported:"...The enemy advanced upon us with their artillery, under cover of their infantry, until within range of our battery when they opened a most d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNN6_archibald-borden-house_Prairie-Grove-AR.html
The heaviest casualties were around the Archibald Borden house and orchard. The first house was burned the day after the battle. Mr. Borden built this house on the site of the original in 1872. Charles W. Walker, 34th Arkansas Infantry, recalled:"…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNN4_the-lords-vineyard_Prairie-Grove-AR.html
This 2-story log house and out-buildings were erected by John Latta about 1834 on Evansville Creek, 12 miles southwest of this spot. The Latta settlement was called Vineyard from "The Lord's Vineyard." Vineyard was the first postoffice in Washingt…