The Joplin Globe

The Joplin Globe Newspaper In Education

Prairie Grove (Fayetteville)
December 7, 1862
Estimated Casualties: 2,568 total (US 1,251; CS 1,317)
Description: After a day’s fighting, neither side had won, but the Confederate force retreated to Van Buren, establishing Federal control of northwest Arkansas.
Union strategic victory

Links

http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/abpp/battles/ar005.htm

http://americancivilwar.com/statepic/ar/ar005.html

http://www.geocities.com/civil_war_anderson/PrairieGrove.html

http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=513

http://blueandgraytrail.com/state/Arkansas

Principal Commanders

Major General Thomas C. Hindman [CS]

http://www.geocities.com/civil_war_anderson/GeneralThomasHindman.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_C._Hindman

http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=1672

http://www.infoplease.com/biography/us/congress/hindman-thomas-carmichael.html

Brigadier General Francis Herron [US]

http://www.geocities.com/civil_war_anderson/GeneralFrancisHerron.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_J._Herron

http://all-biographies.com/soldiers/francis_j_herron.htm

Brigadier General James G. Blunt [US]

http://www.curledup.com/genblunt.htm

http://www.geocities.com/civil_war_anderson/GeneralJamesBlunt.html

http://www.pddoc.com/skedaddle/010/0083.htm

Other Battles in Missouri, Kansas & Arkansas

1. Carthage	4. Pea Ridge (Elkhorn Tavern)	7. Springfield II
2. Wilson’s Creek (Oak Hills)	5. Newtonia I	8. Baxter Springs (Baxter Springs Massacre)
3. Springfield I (Zagonyi’s Charge)	6. Prairie Grove (Fayetteville)	9. Newtonia II

Civil war artifacts pictured here can be seen at the Carthage Civil War Museum and the
Jasper County Courthouse in Carthage, MO.