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Texas
remembers the valor and devotion of her sons who served at
Elkhorn Tavern (Pea Ridge), Arkansas March 7-8, 1862.
In Van Dorn's attack of March 7, these Texas units under Brig.
Gen. Ben McCulloch assaulted the Union right center.
3rd Texas Cavalry (south Kansas - Texas Regt.) - Col. Elkanah
Greer, Lt. Col. Walter P. Lane.
Capt. O.G. Welch's squadron (attached to 3rd Texas Cavalry)
6th Texas Cavalry - Col. B.W. Stone
Young's (11th) Texas Cavalry - Lt. Col. James J. Diamond
Sims (9th) Texas Cavalry - Col. William Sims, Lt. Col. William
Quayle
Whitfields (4th) Texas Cavalry Bn. - Maj. John W. Whitfield
Texas unit supporting Maj. General Sterling Price's flank attack
on the Union extreme left, and rear was Good's Battery - Capt.
J. Good.
Brig. Gen. Ben McCullough of Texas was killed in action. "A
bolder soldier never died for his country." Van Dorn
A Memorial to Texans who served the Confederacy.
Erected by the State of Texas 1964
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