Stop #11
Morton Hayfield (West Overlook)

The heaviest fighting on the western end of the battlefield took place just north of here in the Morton hayfield. General Mosby M. Parsons ordered a Confederate charge composed of his men in the Missouri Infantry brigade and Colonel Robert G. Shaver's Arkansas Infantry brigade out into the field. The Southern troops suffered heavy casualties from the Union artillery before withdrawing to the wooded ridge. Robert West and his family sat on the hill to the north and watched the entire battle.

Stop #12
Morton House Site

The William Morton house was near this location. Men of the 10th and 13th Kansas Infantry advanced to the Morton blacksmith shop south of here which sat where the Prairie Grove School is today. Unable to break through the Confederate lines in front of him, General Blunt ordered his troops to withdraw into the valley late in the day.

Stop #13
Confederate Left Flank

General Daniel M. Frost's Confederate division rested on this road. A brigade of dismounted Texas cavalry, under the command of General John S. Roane, positioned themselves to the northeast, Colonel Walter P. Lane's 1st Texas Partisan Cavalry guarded the Confederate left flank in the woods to the northwest.
 

Stop #14
Prairie Grove Church

The original one-room log building stood in almost the same spot as the church you see here today. General Hindman used the church as his headquarters during the battle. Afterward both sides used it as a hospital. The battle received its name from this simple structure. The town of Prairie Grove, established in 1888, got its name from the Civil War Battle.

 

Prairie Grove Church

This marker is about 30 feet from the church.

Site of the First Cumberland Presbyterian Church, used as a hospital during the Battle of Prairie Grove 1862. Marked by Prairie Grove Chapter U.D.C. 1930.