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The Battle of Pea Ridge: The Civil War Fight for the Ozarks
About this book
After months of reverses, the Union army was going on the offensive in the spring of 1862 as General McClellan prepared for his Peninsula Campaign.
In Tennessee, General Grant had just captured Ft. Henry and Ft. Donelson; and in southwestern Missouri, Gen. Samuel R. Curtis had driven Sterling Price and his Missouri State Guard out of the state and into the arms of General Ben McCulloch's Confederate army in northwestern Arkansas. Using the united armies of Price and McCulloch, the new Confederate department commander, Earl Van Dorn, struck back at Curtis' Federal army which was now outnumbered and two hundred miles from its supply base. For two days in early March 1862, the armies of Van Dorn and Curtis fought in the wilds of the Ozark Mountains at a place called Pea Ridge. Control of northern Arkansas and southern Missouri for the rest of the war hung on the outcome.
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Yes, you can access The Battle of Pea Ridge: The Civil War Fight for the Ozarks by James R. Knight in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & American Civil War History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Prologue
- Chapter 1. Arkansas in 1861
- Chapter 2. Missouri in 1861
- Chapter 3. “Seeing the Elephant”: Wilson's Creek
- Chapter 4. A Hollow Victory
- Chapter 5. The Army of the Southwest
- Chapter 6. Price's Retreat
- Chapter 7. The End of the Chase
- Chapter 8. The Confederates Advance
- Chapter 9. The Affair at Bentonville
- Chapter 10. March 7, 1862: Contact
- Chapter 11. Elkhorn Tavern: 10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
- Chapter 12. Leetown: 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
- Chapter 13. “My God, It's Poor Old Ben!”
- Chapter 14. Morgan's Woods
- Chapter 15. Elkhorn Tavern: 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
- Chapter 16. Turning an Army Around
- Chapter 17. The Storm Breaks at Clemon's Farm
- Chapter 18. The Storm Breaks at Elkhorn Tavern
- Chapter 19. The Night of March 7–8
- Chapter 20. A Continual Thunder
- Chapter 21. A Retreat Worse than a Dozen Battles
- Appendix A. The Commanders
- Appendix B. Order of Battle
- Notes
- About the Author