Clash In The Ozarks - Pea Ridge (1862)
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E.B. and Barbara Long’s monumental The Civil War Day By Day reveals that there were 10,455 military events during the American Civil War. Here’s a few examples selected from the 16 classifications that they used: there were 79 captures, 727 expeditions, 6337 skirmishes, 76 major battles, and 29 campaigns. No surprise that Virginia was the stage for the most military events.
Though Tennessee was second, most students of the conflict are more aware of those events in the eastern theater. However, for this episode, we take you west to The Trans-Mississippi - to an active theater of the war that may surprise you. The statistics bear me out. The third most active state for Civil War events was Missouri, fourth was Mississippi, and the fifth serves as our stage today: Arkansas.
For this episode, we recount a clash that may well have slipped under your Civil War radar - a 2-day fight which produced profound consequences. Today, we make our way to northwestern Arkansas - to Elkhorn Tavern, and the Battle of Pea Ridge.
#civilwar #pearidge #civilwarhistory
Narrated by Fred Kiger
Produced by Dan Irving
Published by Third Wheel Media
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Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:
Henry W. Halleck
Samuel Ryan Curtis
Peter J. Osterhaus
Sterling Price
Benjamin McCulloch
Earl Van Dorn
Albert Pike
I participated in a re-enactment at Pea Ridge. Afterwards I found out I had ancestors who fought at the battle on both sides. It was a humbling experience.
How does one get to be a part of re enactment? I live in bella vista and would love to be able to take part
@donovanbryan5000 you find a page for a unit and get in contact with someone in that unit. You then get assigned a unit or you ask to be part of a specific unit, if they're generous enough to let you do that. They'll fill you in on uniform details and how to talk and execute formations and other stuff like that.
My third great grandfather and his brother fought on opposite sides at Pea Ridge as well.
It's easier than you think if you've got an active imagination. It can be done at any laser tag under the right circumstances...
thats awesome, i thought about being a reenactor, thats a lot of money
Great video. If ever in NW Arkansas the battlefields at Pea Ridge (NPS) and Priaire Grove (State) parks are well worth the visit.
Pea Ridge is next on my list, but I can confirm that Prairie Grove is a great park! Not too far away in Oklahoma, Honey Springs is a small but nice park as well.
You won't regret it.
Elkhorn Tavern was the first Civil War Battlefield Park I went to as a kid. We named it "Tick Ridge" due to us getting covered in seed ticks while on the trails.
Insects, another battlefield hazard. There had to be some snake bits also.
I live in Spfd and have been here since 2008. I love this history and also have been to Wilson Creek. Always wanted to see the reenactment but have not had the chance? I love Spfd!
I really enjoy the channel . I'm a civil war Reenactor (9th Kentucky) and an avid reader civil war history keep up the great work
Pea Ridge is not far from the first Wal Mart. A pretty area.
I just love the narration.
National Tapestry covering my favorite engagement of the Civil War? Yes Please!
I grew up visiting this battlefield one the few civil war battlefields near northeast Oklahoma
You've got Honey Springs right there in Oklahoma, but I think the visitor center is fairly new.
@@aaronfleming9426 I just visited Honey Springs within the last few years actually would have went sooner but I was not aware we had any civil war battlefields in Oklahoma that were preserved.
We had field trips here every year
Wrong. There are dozens.
This is no less than the 3rd Pea Ridge video I have seen this year. I applaud every last one, and hope for fifty more.
Fascinating battle-- Lee's brilliant Eastern victories in reverse. Aggressive, outnumbered Union forces fought like absolute champions. Entrenched in the wrong direction and at first suspicious of the reports of McCulloch, Curtis still divided his forces to fight on two fronts, moved his trains and baggage away from danger, and then reformed the entire army in the freezing pitch black of rural mountains and bayonet charged at dawn after letting his chief rival have a moment of satisfaction and glory. Textbook Generalship and Soldiering all.
I do so hope you cover Curtis' other great victory at Westport, whereby entertaining a farmer whose mare the Rebels had stolen he learned of a secret streambed to outlfank the Rebels. Just a few years from death and tired from his service, Curtis still mounted his horse and personally commanded his men from the front. Price fared no better against the wily Iowan in Kansas.
Your narration is always fantastic!
On a family camping trip when I was a five year old little girl, I put my finger in a bullet hole in the wall of Elk Horn Tavern and fell under the spell of the Battlefield of Pea Ridge as my father explained the battle to me. At that precise moment, my lifelong love of Civil War history and lore began. Now, some 65 years later, I’m still reading, studying, visiting and dreaming over the battles of that uniquely American war. Thank you for a superb video, bringing that day to life for me once again.
Excellent presentation - being about halfway between Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove...and had family on both sides of the conflict. Carr and Osterhaus were probably the reason the Union won, but Seigel wanted to claim all the credit...even as you said it was Seigal's finest hour.
I well remember the centennial battle re-enactment at Pea Ridge in the 1960s. I was a child of 10 and my father was heavily involved in it. The muzzle loaders and cannons one fired was awesome. The cannons were loaded with dummy rounds and there was an explosive charge down field simulating "hits". The cannon would be elevated or otherwise situated until the target was exploded in a successful shot to the unsuspecting audience. The participants were allowed to camp within the park (not normally allowed). Civil war meals were prepared to sample. One I remember they made was acorn bread. I do not remember what it tasted like. Mostly cornbread and beans was more to my liking. Everyone had to provide their own uniform. The wealthier or more crafty had officers uniforms complete with swords. I have a NP pass and occasionally go by the Pea Ridge park. I'll have to stop by there to refresh my memory. I remember apple trees with wooden fences around them to ward off the deer. They have a roaming deer herd there still. And of course some of the buildings incl. the Tavern.
Thanks for doing this. I was born and raised in Fayetteville, so I know this battlefield well, but have never heard this story told so well. I'd love to see you cover Prairie Grove.
I didn't know about this battle. Great job, I'll be watching this one again.
Union Colonel Glennville Dodge suggestion to move his men northward and block the Bettonvile Detour Road with trees was a brilliant one. I don’t think he even knew Confederates planned on moving south via that road but he seemed to have perfect intuition about the road’s importance.
Thank you! I really enjoy your content! I have learned so much…
From Nashville, I am an historical interpreter/tour guide and descendant of Confederate soldiers.
Love seeing new uploads! Thanks for your hard work😊
I live in southern Missouri and have been to Wilson's Creek National Battlefield and Pea Ridge. I enjoyed the video and appreciate all the time and research it takes to put these things together. Thank you!
Long Live Captain Lyons..Long Live the Union
@@kevinjohnson-lf3kj Lyons was a terrorist, he’s dead, and the Union was tyrannical. How has that worked out for ya? Id10t.
Great!!! Being from the area walking the old battlefields this really helped to bring it all home thank you so much!!!
1st Cherokee mounted rifles,gave free haircuts!
This is pretty cool I live not far from Wilson creek and pea ridge. In fact it's actually on the old wire road or telegraph road they talk about.
I've been interested in the Trans-Mississippi theater ever since reading Rifles for Watie as a kid nearly 30 years ago. I'm always disappointed that it never gets mentioned in documentaries, outside of a brief mention of Wilson's Creek (maybe) and Quantrill and Anderson's raiders.
Loved that book as a kid! It was something like a 7th grade reading level but I finished it proudly as a 4th grader.
I completely agree with your view though also that the book and that theater of the war does not get the attention it deserves!
I live in Chattanooga, TN just minutes from Chickamauga/Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge where two of the biggest battles of the war happened. Would love to take a road trip out to Arkansas/Missouri to see Pea Ridge and Wilson’s Creek Battlefields and go hiking/camping in the Ozarks.
After the battle, Curtis wrote:
"The scene is silent and sad. The vulture and the wolf now have the dominion and the dead friends and foes sleep in the same lonely graves."
So so true...
Ow. Well said I suppose.
I have a civil war button from this area found at a confederate camp, like civil war buttons I've done a lot of videos on them
This channel is the best civil war content on the internet 👏👏
Thank you for sharing this video
I really love this content, thank you! This helps me with my table top campaign planning and is wonderfully informative!
Van Dorn was a disorganized mess in this most important of battles.
Thanks!
Pea Ridge a nice location to visit
Thank you for all your hard work!
Wow, my middle name and mother's maiden name is Earle. Also grew up on Van Dorn Road outside of Ithaca, New York.
I absolutely loved this. I live close to Pea Ridge and now feel I can understand the battle, which will make a trip there far more interesting. The amount of detail in your videos is astounding. Thank you!
TftNT has a good story and fabulous narration not seen in many Civil War documentaries. Pea Ridge is a great story that is not often told by the eastern side of the country.
Maps would be helpful to visualize the battles.
I've been to Pea Ridge many times in the past even did a reenactment back in 1995
Very nice history lesson
Superb work yet again sir
Excellent voice narration of this episode
Standing on the Battlefield at Pea Ridge there was a heavy feeling of sadness.
In the book on 'How to lose the civil war' they speak of James Wolfe Ripley and his refusal to buy British Enfield rifles to replace the obsolete Union straight bores and older weapons. Could you speak to this and the weapons they made do with? Also the shifts and blunders which made the war longer than it could have been?
For a musical reference to Wilson's Creek and this battle check out Earle's "Ben McCulloch."
THX BRO!
Warhawk made a great narration of this battle as well.
Eh his shit is biased and he skipped the entire end of the battle when the Union Army charged.
I live 50 mi south of Rolla, MO which you correctly pronounced. I love history thanks for the video.
Wonderful narration
We go here all the time. Very well maintained and funded park.
I enjoyed this tremendously until the last statement, we are not a democracy, we are a republic
A representative democracy. The word "republic" is often bandied about by right-wing authoritarians.
I forgot how many engagements your battles you said there were but there were a lot of them it's those little battles that are much more interesting to me at this point than the large ones cuz I already know about those if you could do more narratives on that your narrative is absolutely
This was a very engaging/informative documentary, and I highly recommend it to everyone interested in the history of the American civil war.
Thanks for the fantastic story!
My 2nd great grandfather lived in Conway County. He enlisted in the 1st Arkansas Calvary (U.S.A.) and fought in the Battle of Pea Ridge. He survived the battle and a month or so later was furloughed in order to return home to visit his mother and father. He was bushwacked at Batesville and was buried there. His grave was never found by his family.
Thanks for sharing your story
Brigade General Wiliam Slack fell too at Pee Ridge
I’m in Texas trying to learn more about the actions involving Missouri Men in the War. I have people who fought on both sides. My GG Grandfather John Leonard Hahn was some kind of Medic/orderly for the North.My family lived around Jefferson City.But I don’t know what he did so far. He later died and was buried at a Army Hospital .I think he suffered from what we call PTSD for it. He was in the Home Guard? Wish I could learn more any help would be appreciated
Thanks for sharing your story
Good work!
My great-great-grandfather Brigadier General James Monroe Ruggles (Union, first Illinois cavalry) was at the Battle of Pea Ridge; and his son, my great-grandfather, Henry Clay Ruggles was captured at the Battle of Chickamauga and Spent the rest of the war in Andersonville, he was only 16 when he went into battle.
Pea Ridge Civil War Campaign in the West by William Shea and Earl Hess is a GREAT read.
I THANK YOU
My GGFather and his brother fought in thic battle on oppisite sides. GGFather was Pvt. Jonn Jackson (JJ) Taylor 1st Arkansas Calvary CSA,, sadly I don't know his brothers name.
There was a lot of HATEFUL going on in MO, KS, and AR during the civil war.
fair enough, but that ranker was matched in Boston, NYC and all across the north. let us not forget that in spite of the lofty rhetoric of "freeing the slaves", the mercantile and banking interests of the industrial north was of primary interest to these "merchants of death"
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Man! Yer a good teacher! Wish we'd had da likes of you in school! Keep up da good work!
Curtis was good, but also lucky. On the Confederate side, there were so many blunders, it seems like they should’ve won.
That could be said for any general in any War.
@@rolandmiller5456nope.
“I'd rather have lucky generals than good ones.” N. Bonepart
“I'd rather have a lucky general than a smart general. They win battles.” D.D. Eisenhower
@@rolandmiller5456 Agreed!
@michaelmanning5379 Luck is usually the result of preparation.
Another interesting aspect following this battle was the outrage in the eastern and southern press over atrocities allegedly committed either by the Confederate-allied Indians, such as scalping or those perpetrated by the German-born Yankees treatment of prisoners. It resulted in a back channel letter to Lincoln by Confederate vice president Stevens both apologizing and accusing. Love the series.
love the vid but i got a littl lost with who was who.
My third great grandfather was at Pea ridge with Price, he was wounded there and after recovering from his wounds was appointed to Assistant Surgeon as he was a MD. His name was William Oliver Alexander. His older brother John was also at Pea ridge with a Union Cavalry unit. I have spent the last several years locating and recording Curtis camps in and around Lebanon Mo. where he staged his army before moving on Springfield.
Thanks for sharing your story
In Closing you stated 'Our Democracy'. When Did the United States Become a Democracy?
It's a representative democracy.
@@davidbowman4259 Representative Republic look it up, please
I may have missed the mention of Brigadier General Stand Watie?
Only tribes mentioned.
@@mikeallgaier926 ?
Will you do Wilson’s Creek as well?
I live near Pea Ridge. It’s very interesting to me that the people who grew up here don’t know any of the history of the battle that took place there. Most of the locals insist that the Confederacy won the battle. If you try to tell them the real outcome they will get fighting mad at you. There is still quite a bit of animosity towards the North.
There is no South We're twine ourselves with with These United States. Regardless of our cultural differences, the unity of the Republic is best for all
Ben McCullough was a helluva man, and his death was a great loss to the Confederacy. I saw the bullet that killed him at the Pea Ridge park. A park ranger told me the bullet hit him in the head (not heart). RIP Sir. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Without battle maps or animation… this presentation feels like a pure audio podcast. That is fine but I have very little idea who is attacking who and where. Rather didsapointing.
Great vid algo boost
How much training were officers provided if they weren’t already graduates of military academies?
Neither side had an officer training program. Officers were political appointments according to social rank so were educated thus expected to read the various training manuals and have questions answered by their formally trained superiors and staff officers. Those being appointed were well known in their general area so their popularity was expected to help with the recruiting of local men. Both sides started off with appointed officers that were worthless that were quickly removed by being forced to resign or reassigned to a post far in the rear. Both sides began using battlefield commissions to bring up qualified NCOs into the officers ranks.
My gg-grandgather was with the Missouri Brigade(3rd Mo CSA) at this battle. I could never figure out why the brigade was absent at Shiloh Church since VanDorn had two whole months to flee Arkansas after Pea Ridge. He was dragging asz! Should've known.🤔. I wonder how Shiloh would have gone if Albert Johnson and then Beauregard would have had more troops on the first day. Grant was pretty well whipped, and Federal reinforcements from Army of Ohio(Buell) would've easily been prevented from using the Pittsburg Landing site.
We owe so much to VanDorn today.
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It wasn’t “over until 1864.” Confederate forces retreated to Prairie Creek and extracted revenge there. \X\
"Disturbing days in the history of our democracy"
Are upon us this minute, and history will have a dark opinion of those bold insurrectionists.
Van Dorn assailed a breastwork one too many
I have family that fought at Pea Ridge, for the CSA. Sadly, the Second War for Independence was already lost. That began (in my humble opinion) when the South lost St. Louis and Jefferson Barracks.
This allowed the Yankees to split the Confederate States down the middle, all the way down to the gulf.
Blessings upon ALL True Southern Christians. In the Holy name of Jesus the Christ. Amen.
MY WIFE HAD BOTH SIDES COVERED IN CIVIL WAR.
DON'T KNOW ABOUT MY FAMILY THEY DIED YOUNG BEFORE I COULD ASK.
This is not a democracy but a republic. No wonder we are where we are …..
These people are hard core Lincolnites so it is normal speak for them.
Representative democracy. Enough with the Nazi talk.
@@davidbowman4259
Representative republic.
@ThreadsfromtheNationalTapestry Are you a Copperhead or a sympathizer of the Cause
Product cheapened by misspelling of general Franz Sigel's name.
My gggpa went to fight mit Sigel
The Civil-War left an lingering distaste for Blacks to be allowed to live in Cass, Bates & Vernon counties in western Missouri, even up to 1980's,,i grew up living in those places that were punished by the Union's proclamation 11. The poor farming families were forced off land for no reason, they couldn't afford a slave & their bible teaching wouldn't allow that anyway!
Both sides thought God was on their side.
This seems to be a Southern sympathy channel
No sympathy from me. Still hate the Rebs.
@@davidbowman4259
Damn Yankee
@@vinny4411 You bet. One of the good guys.
Love the narration in these series.
Would love to visit this battlefield battle of Richmond ky, Camp Nelson ky and the battle of perryville for me
"revelant"
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Great presentation! Keep up the good work.
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