I'm looking for my husband's book about the Battle of Pea Ridge or Elkhorn Tavern. It has names of most of the men CSA who were there. My Ward family in Sebastian County AR all served in the Arkansas 4th Cavalry, Union. My Bean/Been family served on both sides. Meaning, when they had served the enlistment CSA and were being conscripted back into the CSA they fled to Fort Smith AR and enlisted in the Arkansas 2nd Infantry Volunteers, Great-grandfather Rufus LeRoy Been served in Co. F. The Battle of Pea Ridge or Elkhorn Tavern was in Benton County AR. The battlefield is a part of the National Park System and there are related buildings with information about the whole thing. I remember that Gen. Granville Dodge, Missouri Union was that leader. I'm not knowledgeable about the War but there were so many independents who fought for who ever they found or found them. My friend who has studied the War in Arkansas for 30 years tells me that men found alone or in a small group were given the choice of fighting with the group who found them or being shot dead on the spot. Two of my family members were hanged because of their Union service and a third one was murdered in Lavaca Arkansas 1883. Shot in the back as he was riding home. Joy ----- Original Message ----- From: Charles A. Wyly <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 1999 11:37 AM Subject: Re: AR Civil War > Hi, > haven't checked exact date, but I think you are referring to the Battle > of Pea Ridge. The museum is in whitewater country between Simponsville > and Missouri, or Fort Smith and Eureka Springs. The battlefield was > scaterred over a several mile line. Gen. Stand Waite and his Confederate > Cherokees and Intermarrieds on Cherokee rolls were one group there. This > was near some activity of Youngers, Daltons, and James Brothers- not sure > how many of them were. > > My Grandad Carey's Uncle was injured there. According to records cousin > Rex Carey got from Hoytt Hawkins in the Sulfur Springs, Texas area, > Grandad's Uncle was injured and laid among the dead and dying until > someone on a burial detail saw him move. He recoverred and kept records > for his daughter's store.in Pine Mountain, Charleston, Arkansas & family > spread into Hope and Nashville areas before Texas Have some more on him > if anyone is interested. He claimed to have never drank hard liquor as a > beverage nor used God's name in vain or other rougher type profanity. If > you said "Good Lordy" around my grandparents you were instantly > repirmanded. His brother was Jasper Newton Carey > > Grandad John Henry said he came on a or the Pig Trail from Hope to > Huckaby , Texas, about 1900with a stove, a pump organ, a trunk, a milk > cow, and a dog. > > I was in Mena arkansas doing contract Discover card work a few days and > folk there gave me tourists brochures on THE PIG TRAIL- A PREHISTORIC > NATIVE AMERICAN TRAIL from Mena , Arkansas down a curved Ouachita > Mountain ridge which comes out near the Red River betweeen Fredrick and > Broken Bow. Arkansas wagon trains used this route to Texas to avoid > Caddo lake and several swamps and rivers. They had a shallow ford or > ferry on the Red River, from which you could go to Sulfur Springs or > towards Dallas, where crossings for the Trinity and the Brazos were well > developped and you were in Erath County, 50 miles southwest of Fort > Worth. > > Parents of Jasper Newton Carey were Daniel Carey b. 1810 & Sarah > Cannon, b. 1804, apparently both in North Carolina and > > Grandparents Michael b. 1760. > > G. Grandparents William Carey b. Worchester Co. Maryland in 1733. > > Sources handwritten records from family sources and Bibles in possession > of Williw Ann Carey Ramage. > > Take care, > Charles Wyly > > > ==== Southern-Trails Mailing List ==== > Please remember that real people read the messages you post. > Got a problem? Got a gripe? Don't take it to the list! > Send me a message, and I'll try to take care of it: > mailto:[email protected] > >