ORIGINAL CIVIL WAR 1st MONUMENT at BATTLE of PEA RIDGE - PHOTO POSTCARD c1920's

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ORIGINAL CIVIL WAR 1st MONUMENT at The BATTLE of PEA RIDGE - PHOTO POSTCARD c1920's
THE SUBJECT OF THIS SELDOM SEEN PHOTO POSTCARD RPPC IS THE
1st MONUMENT at the * BATTLE of PEA RIDGE. **AN EARLIER ELK HORN TAVERN CAN BE SEEN IN THE DISTANT BACKGROUND AT A TIME WHEN IT WAS USED AS BATTLEFIELD ENTRANCE IN THE 1920's. THE
1st MONUMENT at BATTLE of PEA RIDGE
WAS BUILT BY THE CITIZENS OF BENTON COUNTY ARKANSAS FOR CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS WHO DIED AT THE BATTLE, IN PARTICULAR IT MEMORIALIZES: GENERAL BEN MCCULLOCH of TEXAS, GENERAL JAMES McINTOSH of ARKANSAS , GENERAL WILLIAM SLACK of MISSOURI.
* The Battle of Pea Ridge (Mar 7,1862-Mar 8,1862) also known as the Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, took place in the American Civil War near Leetown, northeast of Fayetteville, Arkansas. Federal forces, led by Brig. Gen. Samuel R. Curtis, who moved south from central Missouri, spearheading Confederate forces into northwestern Arkansas. 23,000 soldiers fought at Pea Ridge to decide the fate of Missouri and was a turning point of the war in the West. The 4,300 acre battlefield honors those who fought and died on these grounds. Pea Ridge was the most pivotal Civil War battle west of the Mississippi River and is one of the most intact Civil War battlefields in the U.S. The battlefield at Pea Ridge is now Pea Ridge National Military Park founded in 1956, one of the best-preserved civil war battlefields. **
A reconstruction of Elkhorn Tavern, scene of the heaviest fighting, stands at the original location.
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SHARP FOCUS WITH VERY GOOD CONTRAST.
MANY FINE DETAILS CAN BE SEEN INCLUDING, THE INSCRIPTIONS ON THE MONUMENT AND OTHER CHANGES AND REPAIRS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE OVER THE YEARS.
DETAILS OF THE MONUMENT AND BATTLE IN THE NEGATIVE ALONG THE BOTTOM EDGE.
CONDITION IS EXTREMELY FINE.
(please see pictures)
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