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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VQK_potts-hill-historical_Garfield-AR.html
On the Arkansas—Missouri line where the Telegraph Road entered ten-mile long Cross Timber Hollow, on February 16, 1862, occurred the first skirmish on Benton County soil. Brig. Gen. Curtis' Federal army overtook the rear guard of Maj. Gen. P…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L6G_the-butterfield-overland-mail-route_Garfield-AR.html
John Butterfield was born in Berne, New York in 1801 and grew up on a farm amid the technological revolution of the first steamboat, the Erie Canal, the steam locomotive, and the electric telegraph.
In 1857, John Butterfield won a lucra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP98_elkhorn-tavern-taken_Garfield-AR.html
Confederate commander Earl Van Dorn had pushed his army relentlessly for a week to catch the Union army by surprise. Now, after hours of hard fighting up the Telegraph Road, here in sight of Elkhorn Tavern, Van Dorn gambled by committing all his r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP97_two-armies-collide_Garfield-AR.html
Imagine 7,000 Confederate troops crowded in close order along Ford Road, the lane you see on the right edge of this field. As they trudged east toward Elkhorn Tavern, a small Union force of Iowa cavalrymen - only 600 men - unexpectedly appeared fr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNUP_u-s-army-headquarters-1862_Garfield-AR.html
This site was the camp-ground for commanding officers and headquarters of U.S. Army for Battle of Pea Ridge. Here councils of war were held. Camp for 10,500 soldiers. U.S. Army located 1 ½ miles south. Depot of supplies 1 mile north of this s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNUL_dat-de-shpot-sergent_Garfield-AR.html
I saw General Sigel sight one piece...and send a shot at the [rebel] guns that had driven us back...It went tearing in among the men and horses, killing and wounding both, and then exploded in one of the caissons...Placing his glass to his eye to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNUH_that-beautiful-charge_Garfield-AR.html
That beautiful charge I shall never forget; with banners streaming, with drums beating, and our long line of blue coats advancing upon the double quick, with their deadly bayonets gleaming in the sunlight, and every man and officer yelling at the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNUC_a-perfect-storm-of-shot-and-shell_Garfield-AR.html
...[the Yankees] opened a perfect storm of round and shrapnell shot and shell...[the ground] was literally ploughed up by cannon ball...It is a perfect miracle that any of us ever came out.John J. Good, captain, Dallas Texas Light Artillery, Good'…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNUB_confederate-sunset_Garfield-AR.html
As the sun set on the first day of battle, about 3,000 rebels from Missouri made their final charge here. Crossing Ben Ruddick's stubbled cornfield, they ran straight toward the muzzles of Federal cannon set wheel hub to wheel hub against a line o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNU6_disastrous-retreat_Garfield-AR.html
It took two weeks for the stunned survivors of the Confederate Army of the West to make their way from here back to rendezvous on the Arkansas River. In late March 1862 General Van Dorn was ordered to take his army east to Mississippi. This left n…