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I don't believe they ever made a harder march during the Revolution than we made that night.Jack Bower, private, 2nd Missouri Regiment
The 16,000-strong Confederate Army of the West spent most of the first week of March 1862 trudging on muddy r…
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Officers and men, you have it in your power to make or prevent another Bull Run affair. I want every man to stand to his post!Nicholas Greusel, colonel, 36th Illinois Infantry Regiment
Yankee cavalrymen, mauled from a sharp fight with 7,000 Con…
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...this battle...was a mass of mixed up confusion from beginning to end...Would to God it was night or reinforcements would come.William Watson, sergeant, 3rd Louisiana Infantry Regiment
Four regiments of volunteers from Arkansas and Louisiana,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNS0_save-the-cannon_Garfield-AR.html
Like maddened hornets, Confederate infantrymen boiled out of Morgan's Woods, crossed Leetown Road, and swarmed toward the six Federal cannon that had unlimbered in this corner of Oberson's cornfield. Captain William Black stood in front of the can…
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We must not let the men know that General McCulloch is killed.Benjamin Pixley, Lieutenant, 16th Arkansas Infantry
The general in charge of this half of the Confederate army - Texan Ben McCulloch - had formed his division, some 7,000 strong, jus…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNQK_leetown_Garfield-AR.html
The small hamlet near here included two stores, a blacksmith shop, Masonic hall, church, school and several residences. During the fighting some of the buildings were used by the Union Army as hospitals.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNQI_a-village-full-of-wounded-men_Garfield-AR.html
Entering a little clearing, we discovered the yellow hospital flags fluttering from the gables of every house in the hamlet of Leetown, and the surgeons busy with the sad, yet humane task that was theirs to perform.Lyman G. Bennett, private, 36th …
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General Samuel Curtis had only 10,500 troops to hold back a Confederate army of more than 16,000 men moving toward him. Curtis had asked army headquarters in St. Louis for reinforcements. None could be sent.
At the last minute, Union soldiers d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNPS_city-of-soldiers_Garfield-AR.html
In early March 1862, these now quiet fields bustled with the clamor and constant motion of an army headquarters in time of battle. Soldiers drilled, cleaned guns, and checked ammunition. Scouts and couriers rode in to report. Officers convened for…
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It was still below freezing at 10:30 a.m. March 7, 1862, when an alarmed messenger thundered into Union headquarters. The news he carried was startling: Confederates were moving down the Telegraph Road a mile north of Elkhorn Tavern. All of Genera…