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lougm . I.Tuesday morning i tcxcc the'tram l . •at Fayetteville for Prairie Grove, i Among the passengers were i»™P8 125 Presbyterian ministers a alt;* lal*men on their way to Cane Hill to attend the Presbytery. The ran roadfollows a very fertile valley enclosedon either side by heavily woodedTho tnwn ot Prairie I shemountains. The town 01 —Grove now numbering 1200 people.was not in existence at the time of thf» battle. Dec 1K62. The ( on.ed-oodedI or grove while on each sideI off stretches of prairie land, hence the (j Z V e prairie lirove. The ridge nms , fo«; almost due east and west, the Con-111 federate line facing north. fl he F-1etteville road passes diagonally oyer,the battlefield and the only buildingon the south side of the ri‘*,ge, vie Grove church standing near th©icatime of the battle was the lit’e Pvni-jfoot of the slope near the Fayette-j •, ville road. It was tised as a hospital., ^ The old church was burned in war times and another little white church occupies the same sib* Gen Hind-, man the commander of the _ Cop feu-ve frerat. forces established his head- ™« . in intvtl U\ ouarlers near a laugf spring in town, waich is now used by the farmers for ™‘watering .ioraes. Shells from the} Union, batteries on the other side of the ridge passed even beyond h*s j headouarters.rctci'nA 1 rlef outline of this bloody fight is as follows: Gen. James G. Blunt,'commanding the army of the Frontier mostly Kansas troops, held an ad■ ! vanced position in the mountains at i “Cane Hill some eight miles southwest j * of Prairie Grove. Gen. Hindman de-1 termined to cut him off by getting in , ^his rear. Gen Herron stationed at ;iSpringfield, Mo., with Indiana, Iowa ^ ‘land Illinois troops aware of Blunt's, i danger hurried to his relief making a j ; forced march of 110 miles in a little more than three days, arriving the ' • morning of the battle. Gen. Hindman • took position on the ridge to contest ‘’ Herron’s advance. Herron opened f. 1 ! with his batteries on the south side ofIllinois Creek, soon followed by a des- ■; : perate charge, capturing a Confeder-; ate battery at the Borden house. The j Confederate infantry supports rallied to the defense of the battery and re-k, captured it. Blunt being obliged to make a wide detour did not arrive on the field till about 4 p. m. when he attacked the Confederate left. The ; battle was fiercely contested neither ’ side gaining any decided advantage. , u | During the night Gen. Hindman re-j i treated across the Boston Mountains thus leaving the Union army in pos-e 1 session ot the field.riI was very fortunate in finding a- ^ *
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Albert Lea Times Enterprise
Albert Lea, Minnesota, US
Wed, Oct 06, 1909
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