PEA RIDGE

chain of hills, NW Ark., where the Civil War battle of Pea Ridge (or Elkhorn Tavern) was fought Mar. 6–8, 1862. Earl Van Dorn, leading a large Confederate command, which included Sterling Price's retreating Missouri forces and Ben McCulloch's army, attacked the strongly entrenched Union army under Samuel Ryan Curtis. The Confederate wings, becoming separated, were crushed on successive days. Pea Ridge was the first decisive victory won by the Union army W of the Mississippi; not until Price's raid (1864) did the Confederates again try to carry the war to Missouri in force.

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books on: Pea Ridge  - 268 results

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Wilson's Creek, Pea Ridge, and Prairie Grove: A Battlefield Guide, with a Section on Wire Road
Book by Earl J. Hess, Christopher L. Brest; University of Nebraska Press, 2006
Subjects: Arkansas--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Battlefields--Guidebooks, Battlefields--United States--Guidebooks, Missouri--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Battlefields--Guidebooks, Pea Ridge National Military Park (Ark.)--Guidebooks, Pea Ridge, Battle Of, 1862, Prairie Grove, Battle Of, 1862, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Battlefields--Guidebooks, Wilson's Creek National Battlefield (Mo.)--Guidebooks, Wilson's Creek, Battle Of, 1861
...Review 61 (Oct. 1966): 22-50. PEA RIDGE Stop 4 (Obersons Field) Shea and Hess, Pea Ridge, 103-12. Stop 6 (Fosters Farm) Brown, Albert Pike and the Pea Ridge Atroci- ties, 345-59; Shea and...
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Pea Ridge: Civil War Campaign in the West
Book by William L. Shea, Earl J. Hess; University of North Carolina Press, 1992
Subjects: Pea Ridge, Battle Of, 1862
Appendix 1 The Legacy of Pea Ridge Pea Ridge lived on as a potent force in the lives of the...servant to care for him. More than eight years after Pea Ridge, Tuerck wrote to various American political figures...
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Blue Ridge Folklife
Book by Ted Olson; University Press of Mississippi, 1998
Subjects: Blue Ridge Mountains--Social Life And Customs, Country Life--Blue Ridge Mountains Region, Folklore--Blue Ridge Mountains, Folklore--Virginia
...Highland Secrets from the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains High...Courtship and marriage in the Blue Ridge are discussed in Muriel Earley...Day/Memorial Day in the Blue Ridge is addressed in Crissman, Death...House Raisins, Quiltins, Pea Thrashins, Singins, Log Rollins...
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Civil War on the Western Border: 1854-1865
Book by Jay Monaghan; University of Nebraska Press, 1984
Subjects: American Civil War--Western Campaigns
...pp. 21, 25. Ford, "Van Dorn and Pea Ridge", pp. 222-223. Eldredge Collection...Bill , p. 64. Ford, "Van Dorn and Pea Ridge", p. 229. 236 Noble L. Prentis...Crabtree, "Recollections of the Pea Ridge Campaign", p. 217. William...
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Slavery in the Cherokee Nation: The Keetoowah Society and the Defining of a People, 1855-1867
Book by Patrick N. Minges; Routledge, 2003
Subjects: African Americans--Relations With Indians, Cherokee Indians--Ethnic Identity, Cherokee Indians--Societies, Etc, Ex-Slaves Of Indian Tribes--Oklahoma, Secret Societies--Oklahoma--History, Slavery--Oklahoma--History, Slavery--Southern States--History
...in the Correspondence of the Ridge-Watie-Boudinot family Norman...Oklahoma Press, 1941 , 153. 45 . Pea Ridge National Military Park, The Battle of Pea Ridge, 1862 Rogers, Ark...L. Shea, War in the West: Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove Fort...
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journal articles on: Pea Ridge  - 68 results

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Wilson's Creek, Pea Ridge, and Prairie Grove: A Battlefield Guide, with a Section on Wire Road
Journal article by Jessica A. Cannon; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 73, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Sherman's 1864 Trail of Battle to Atlanta (Book)--Book reviews, Wilson's Creek, Pea Ridge, and Prairie Grove: A Battlefield Guide, with a Section on Wire Road (Book)--Book reviews
Wilsons Creek, Pea Ridge, and Prairie Grove: A Battlefield Guide...by Jessica A. Cannon Wilsons Creek, Pea Ridge, and Prairie Grove: A Battlefield...to filling this void, Wilsons Creek, Pea Ridge, and Prairie Grove: A Battlefield...
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From Pea Ridge to the Potomac: Lemon G. Hine and the 44th Illinois Regiment, 1861-1862
Journal article by Ryan P. Semmes; Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 104, 2011
From Pea Ridge to the Potomac: Lemon G. Hine and the...battlefield. Hine took solitude in the post Pea Ridge quiet and described to his wife his experiences...the Army of the Southwest prevailed at Pea Ridge. Only four Union men died from Rebel artillery...
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The History and Historians of Civil War Arkansas
Journal article by Anne J. Bailey, Daniel E. Sutherland; The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Vol. 58, 1999
Subjects: American Civil War, Arkansas, Historians, Military history
...Frederick Steele and Sterling Price, Pea Ridge and Jenkins Ferry. Yet there is...had paid but little attention to Pea Ridge, complained Hudson in a review of...published articles on the battles of Pea Ridge and Arkansas Post. He continued...
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Double Honor: the Story of John and William Black and the Medal of Honor
Journal article by David C. Hinze; Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 104, 2011
...failed to reach their objective around Pea Ridge, a large plateau in the region, where...about following VanDorns men around Pea Ridge. Several hours behind schedule...the Ford Road, across south face of Pea Ridge, to bring the pieces of the...
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"The Eagle of the 11th Kansas": Wartime Reminiscences of Colonel Thomas Moonlight
Journal article by Kip Lindberg, Matt Matthews; The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Vol. 62, 2003
Subjects: American Civil War, Autobiographies, Military engagements, Military officers, Moonlight, Thomas
...Comfort and Keetsville60 Missouri to Pea Ridge, Arkansas, where we overtook Schofields...each day was made from Leavenworth to Pea Ridge, resting only one day at Fort...historic in connection with the Battle of Pea Ridge. Here it was that the fight...
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magazine articles on: Pea Ridge  - 34 results

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Border States Focus on an Enduring Legacy
Magazine article by Shannon Hanson; VFW, Veterans of Foreign Wars Magazine, Vol. 91, May 2004
Subjects: American Civil War, Arkansas, Kentucky, Memorials & monuments, Missouri, Museums, Tennessee
...1817-1896. Site includes remains of two forts and a federal court. Visitor center, exhibits, self-guided tours. Pea Ridge National Military Park Rogers, (479) 451-8122. One of the best-preserved Civil War battlefields. Site of March...
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Top Gun
Magazine article by James M. Mcpherson; The Nation, Vol. 278, June 14, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America (Book), Lincoln's Last Months (Book), Lincoln's War: The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander in Chief (Book)--Book reviews
...troops engaged or casualties are wrong for several important campaigns and battles: First Bull Run, Fort Donelson, Pea Ridge, the Corinth campaign of May 1862, First Winchester, Perryville, the battle of Corinth in October 1862, Second Bull...
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Potosi Tries to Keep Head above Water
Magazine article by Stephen Greene; Regional Economist, April 2000
Subjects: Business conditions, Careers, Economic conditions, Economic growth, United States
...area and making good salaries, some as high as $50,000 a year. The downturn came late in the decade. In 1977, the Pea Ridge iron ore mine laid off about 1,000 people. What remained was a skeletal staff. Layoffs at the Indian Creek lead mine...
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Post-President for Life: The Post-Presidency of Bill Clinton Will, like the Clinton Administration, Be Noisy and Attention-Getting
Magazine article by James Fallows; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 291, March 2003
Subjects: Bush, George W.--International relations, Clinton, Bill--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Clinton, Bill--Influence, Clinton, Bill--Names, Clinton, Bill--Political aspects, Clinton, Hillary Rodham--Family, Clinton, Hillary Rodham--Influence, Democratic Party--Forecasts and trends, Democratic Party--Personalities, Edwards, John--International relations, Ex-presidents--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Ex-presidents--Influence, Ex-presidents--Names, Ex-presidents--Political aspects, Hussein, Saddam--International relations
...traveled once a week to New York to give lectures at New York University. About what victory at the nearby Battle of Pea Ridge had meant to General Grant during the Civil War. And why Isaac Murphy, a schoolteacher from the area who later became...
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New Members
Magazine article by Joanne Stolte; PSA Journal, Vol. 75, July 2009
Subjects: Photographic Society of America--Officials and employees, Professional associations--Officials and employees, Trade and professional associations--Officials and employees
...Arkansas Sherry Clowers, Mabelvale, Carole Kropscot, APSA Roy Covert, Springdale, Carole Kropscot, APSA David Hauser, Pea Ridge, John Baltz Alex Leme, Little Rock, Carole Kropscot, APSA Georgeanne McIlveene, Searcy, John Baltz Bobble R. Smith...
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newspaper articles on: Pea Ridge  - 48 results

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New Island Might Have Terns Turning to Fern Ridge
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), October 23, 2007
...Might Have Terns Turning to Fern Ridge. Byline: Mike Stahlberg The...Guard The water level at Fern Ridge Lake is dropping steadily...human recreation. Rather, its pea gravel surface will serve as...eating bird that frequents Fern Ridge in small numbers during migrations...
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Both Sides Admire Priest's Heroic Service
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 17, 2004
Subjects: Price, Sterling
...lines, battlefronts and all kinds of engagements. At Pea Ridge, Ark., he was seen tending to the wounded as bullets...artilleryman On the second day of fighting at the battle of Pea Ridge, on March 8, 1862, Bannon rapidly dismounted and leapt...
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Let's Go
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), April 9, 2000
...301 miles from OHare, (618) 786-2315) Remember Pea Ridge Keokuk, Iowa, is the setting for the re-enactment...most important battles of the Civil War, the Battle of Pea Ridge, which saved Missouri for the Union. This years re...
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Births
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), November 29, 2004
...Grandmothers: Marilyn Maher, Des Plaines; Frances Scherer, Pea Ridge, Ark. - Madison Grace Riske, Oct. 19 to Scott and Jori...Blake and Caroline. Grandparents: Betty Eastman, Park Ridge, and the late George Eastman; Donald and Lorna Gosswein...
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Edwin Bearss Breathes Life into War's History
Newspaper article by Michael Hedges; The Washington Times, April 26, 1997
...BATTLEFIELDS With the approach of the Civil War Centennial, Mr. Bearss first got involved in mapping the boundaries of Pea Ridge battlefield in Arkansas and Wilsons Creek in Missouri for purposes of preserving them. It was a critical moment in the...
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encyclopedia articles on: Pea Ridge  - 12 results

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Pea Ridge
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PEA RIDGE chain of hills, NW Ark., where the Civil War battle of Pea Ridge (or Elkhorn Tavern) was fought Mar...separated, were crushed on successive days. Pea Ridge was the first decisive victory won by...
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Pea Ridge National Military Park
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PEA RIDGE NATIONAL MILITARY PARK see National Parks and Monuments (table). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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National Parks and Monuments
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...80,195) Forested region of the Blue Ridge Mts. Theodore Roosevelt NP W N.Dak...between Patriots and Loyalists. Pea Ridge MP NW Ark. 1956 4,300 (1,742) Site of the Civil War battle of Pea Ridge , which saved Missouri for the Union...
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Fayetteville
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...grown around the university. During the Civil War, the city was occupied by Union forces (1863 65); the battles of Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove were fought nearby. 2 City (1990 pop. 75,695), seat of Cumberland co., S central N.C...
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Price, Sterling
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Union forces. Price then took Lexington but was soon obliged to retreat into Arkansas. After the Union victory at Pea Ridge (Mar., 1862), Price accepted a regular Confederate commission. His campaign around Iuka and Corinth , Miss. (Oct...
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