Pea Ridge Battle Timeline
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Updated: 21 Apr 2023
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Created byBraxton Hiebert
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The Confederates March to Pea Ridge
By the spring of 1862, the Union forces had pushed the
Confederate army into northwestern Arkansas. On the night of
On March 6, 1862, Confederate Major General Earl Van Dorn gathered his
16,000-man army to counterattack the Union near Pea Ridge.The Battle of Pea Ridge Begins
The next day, learning of Van Dorn's counterattack, 10,000 Federals in
Brigadier General Samuel R. Curtis's army marched to meet the counterattack.
The armies met at Elkhorn Tavern three miles south of the Missouri border.
During the battle two Confederate Generals were killed Brigadier Generals
Ben McCulloch and James McQueen McIntosh. The deaths of the two Generals
slowed down the Confederate's momentum at the end of the day.The Battle Comes to an End
On March 8, 1862, after General Curtis assembled his army the Union counterattacked
the Confederates pushing them back. Eventually the Confederates ran out of ammunition
and they surrendered abandoning the battle field. The Union now had control of the border state of Missouri.
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