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Title: The history of the Civil War in America; comprising a full and impartial account of the origin and progress of the rebellion, of the various naval and military engagements, of the heroic deeds performed by armies and individuals, and of touching scenes in the field, the camp, the hospital, and the cabin
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot), 1805-1877
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : H. Bill
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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t music they swept along, like men return-ing from a great victory, with the laurels of the conqueror fresh upon theirbrows. Never did that ancient aphorism, Let not him that girdeth onhis harness boast himself as he that putteth it off, receive a strongerenforcement than at the battle of Pea Ridge. In the spirit of Goliah therebel host went forth, and the fate of Goliah was theirs. A few words of topographical explanation is necessary to a correctunderstanding of the events which ensued. The reader will easily compre-hend them by referring to the annexed diagram. General Curtis was at a point called Cross Hollows, This place ia * It 13 true that General Van Dorn, after his signal defeat, in his official report states hisforce as fourteen thousand, but the falsity of his statement is shown by all other acermnts. boththose of friend and foe. See, for example, the Richmond Whig of April 9th, and the officialTcport of Gtneral Curtis, Rep. Rec. Pi. xiiT., p. 417. 230 CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.
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PEA RIDGE Nt^CR9$S «Lt,OWS BATTLE OP PEA RIDGE. situated on what is termed, in the official dispatches, the Keatsville road.It is the direct road from Fayetteville, Arkansas, to Springfield, Missouri,the road which General Curtis had travelled as he drove the retreatingrebels before him. Twelve miles north of Cross Hollows the stream calledSugar Creek crosses the road, flowing in a westerly direction, at the pointwhere Colonel Ellis so heroically charged the rebel batteries. The valleyof this creek is from a quarter to half a mile wide, with hills of very con-siderable elevation on each side. On the north side of this creek therespreads a plateau of high table-land, with farms and open fields, at inter-vals broken by hills more or less precipitous. Several miles west of the L PURSUIT OF THE REBELS. 231 Keatsville road is the little village of Bentonville. A road which crossesthe Keatsville road a few miles south of Cross Hollows passes, throughBenton ville, and then bearing off in a

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