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160th Prairie Grove Civil War Reenactment official report from the field
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The Battle of Prairie Grove was a battle of the American Civil War fought on December 7, 1862. While tactically indecisive, the battle secured the Union control of northwestern Arkansas. • In one of the more amazing feats of the Civil War the 19th Iowa walked 110 miles and 3 days to get to the battle of Prairie Grove. The young farm boys were not accustomed to wearing these shoes and their new government issued boots made blisters on their feet at this point, many of the young soldiers preferred to walk barefoot on the cold road carrying their shoes across the butt of their rifles or tied to their knapsacks. They reached Prairie Grove after dark and waded across the Illinois River in freezing water that was waste deep. The young soldiers were hungry for there had not been time to eat during this forced march. They Dropped exhausted on the other side and slept. In the morning their clothes were frozen to their bodies. They slept as if they would never wake, While the shells from the battery in the early morning burst over their unheeding heads • Men of the Croaker Mess at / croakermess • https://unionarmy.battleofprairiegrov... • 19th Iowa: Fields of Blood
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