Prairie Grove, Arkansas (May 2005)

Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park


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The following May 2005 photos/narratives courtesy of Dale Cox, AR
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This is a cannon outside of Hindman Hall at Prairie Grove Battlefield Historic State Park in Arkansas. The park is located on U.S. Highway 62 in Prairie Grove, Arkansas (southwest of Fayetteville

The former chimney of the Rhea Mill now serves as an imposing monument on the battlefield grounds. This structure originally stood six miles away from the battlefield, but was dismantled and relocated here after it was given to the park. The chimney is 55 feet high, contains 700 stones and weighs an estimated 200,000 pounds

          

Prairie Grove Battlefield today offers hundreds of acres of preserved battlefield and both walking and driving tours. Tour Stop One on both tours is just north of the Hindman Hall parking lot and marks the spot where the second phase of the battle began on the afternoon of December 7, 1862, when General James G. Blunt's Federal division attacked the left side of the Confederate lines. Blunt's attacks were beaten back, as were Confederate counterattacks
 
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A one-mile paved walking trail leads from the parking lot area along the Confederate positions atop the ridge past the Borden House and then back along the Federal positions. This section of the Prairie Grove Battlefield, where heavy fighting took place along the eastern end of the two-mile long battle line, is one of the best-preserved battlefields in the United States

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