About this episode:
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.
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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
Other References From This Episode
Leetown - March 7th, 1862
Elkhorn Tavern - March 7th, 1862
Elkhorn Tavern - March 8th, 1862
**Maps credit: Steven Stanley of The Civil War Trust
**Picture credit: On The Battery by Andy Thomas
Get The Guide:
Want to learn more about the Civil War? A great place to start is Fred's guide, The Civil War: A History of the War between the States from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing.
Producer: Dan Irving
054 - ”The River of Death”: The Battle Of Chickamauga
053 - The Hero And The Humorist: The Friendship of U.S. Grant and Mark Twain
052 - ”Let Us Have Peace”: The Post-War Life Of U.S. Grant
051 - ”Beat To Quarters!”: The C.S.S Alabama
050 - Lee’s Finest Hour: Chancellorsville
049 - Concealed Stories: Sex in the American Civil War
048 - The Trent Affair
047 - ”Into the Belly of the Beast” - Sherman’s Carolinas Campaign
046 - Reaping the Whirlwind: Sherman’s March to the Sea - Part 2
045 - Reaping the Whirlwind: Sherman‘s March to the Sea - Part 1
044 - Five Fateful Hours: The Battle of Franklin
043 - The ”Rock”, The ”Sledge”: George Henry Thomas
042 - The Southern Home Front
041 - The Northern Home Front
040 - July 3, 1863 - Climax - The Third Day at Gettysburg
039 - July 2, 1863 - A Rolling Thunder - The Second Day at Gettysburg
038 - July 1, 1863: A Meeting Engagement - The First Day at Gettysburg
037 - The Confederacy's "Greatest" Surrender - The Bennett Place
036 - Avenging Angel - John Brown
035 - Nathan Bedford Forrest - Part 2
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