Cannons at Pea Ridge
by Pam Holdsworth
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Cannons at Pea Ridge
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Pam Holdsworth
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Photograph - Photograph
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Nearly a month after initiating their campaign against Confederates in southwest Missouri, Gen. Samuel R. Curtis' Union Army of the Southwest had pushed into Arkansas and established a defensive position on the bluffs overlooking Little Sugar Creek. At the same time, Gen. Earl Van Dorn was appointed to take command of Confederate forces in the trans-Mississippi with the objective of destroying Curtis and his 12,000 Federals. Rather than attack Curtis' fortifications, Van Dorn proposed to march around the Union right flank, near Pea Ridge. In the course of the maneuver, however, the Southern forces were divided. Van Dorn's two wings, under generals Benjamin McCullough and Sterling Price, were separated by Pea Ridge, and subsequently compelled to fight two distinct actions, with neither wing able to support the other. Further compounding Van Dorn's woes was the fact that Union scouts had detected the Confederate movement. Federal troops were en route to meet the Rebel threat.
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http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/pea-ridge.html
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November 24th, 2013
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