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Dunigan's Farm was a one day action fought as part of the Pea Ridge Campaign. It was this one day fight that let Union General Curtis know that Price had joined forces with McCulloch. This caused the Union army to halt its pursuit of Price and to dig in on the bluffs over-looking Little Sugar Creek and to wait for the Confederates to attack his fortified position on the high bluffs above the creek.
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Nic Clark
2017 - 24 years in the hobby
Proud co-founder of the Butcherknife Roughnecks -
Re: Dunigan's Farm battlefield up for sale.
Along with Dunigan's Farm being up for sale, I passed through Cross Hollows yesterday, and noticed that the land/farm within Cross Hollows is also for sale. Cross Hollows was the winter encampment for the Confederates in the winter of 1861/62 in NW Arkansas, and played a part in the Pea Ridge Campaign. Cross Hollows is on the Telegraph Road and is situated in between the rapidly growing towns of Lowell and Rogers, AR. It won't be long until this land is housing, or some other sort of development. Here is a history of the activity that took place within Cross Hollows: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...g=content;col1Nic Clark
2017 - 24 years in the hobby
Proud co-founder of the Butcherknife Roughnecks -
Re: Dunigan's Farm battlefield up for sale.
Very interesting and informative article on the Cross Hollows encampment. Many thanks!Bob Williams
26th North Carolina Troops
Blogsite: http://26nc.org/blog/
As [one of our cavalry] passed by, the general halted him and inquired "what part of the army he belonged to." "I don't belong to the army, I belong to the cavalry." "That's a fact," says [the general], "you can pass on." Silas Grisamore, 18th LouisianaComment
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Re: Dunigan's Farm battlefield up for sale.
How much did it sell for per acre?Comment
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Re: Dunigan's Farm battlefield up for sale.
Both sites are still up for sale. There's still time to save our western battlefields, but because they're western, or even trans-miss., no one cares. Out east, they are all developed and we fight over saving one acre of land of an already developed site, but out here in the Trans-Miss., we can save entire battlefields, since it's not ANV or AOT, no one cares. Why not put the focus on saving 80%, 90%, etc., of all the battlefield land in our smaller, lesser known battlefields, like Dunigan's Farm, while we still can?Nic Clark
2017 - 24 years in the hobby
Proud co-founder of the Butcherknife RoughnecksComment
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Re: Dunigan's Farm battlefield up for sale.
What about the CWPT? Couldn't they help? I agree with a lot of what Nic wrote.Nathan Hellwig
AKA Harrison "Holler" Holloway
"It was the Union armies west of the Appalachians that struck the death knell of the Confederacy." Leslie Anders ,Preface, The Twenty-First MissouriComment
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