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'i3e Borden-tiall House Ts a one-and-one-half s'ory aind one-le-~el sddition frame a t n c t u r e clad in an 1880's skin. It is located less 33 yar3; east of I I

Prairie Grove aattlefield Park. i The j l an has a central hallway, one raom an oi ther s i d e . Th? exterior end, c n t sandstone chimneys have been removed but can be located.

The weather-board-clad balloon frame bnildzng and t 3 e e l l rest on a layed atone foundation. The building is rapped by double-pitched roofs supported Sy round rafters. The roof was first cover4 in shingles, t h e n asphalt shingles and now p a r t i a l l y by tax paper,

The front facade faces north across the valley of t h e Illinois Creek. The first level of t h i s facade contains five bays. The cect ra l Say consists of a portico and a stylized triangular-pedimented entrance door with sidelights. The portico is covered by a half-hipped mof, decorat& w i t h lattice work at t he eave and supported by turned columns. The four b y s that complete the first leve l of the north facade contain double-hung, six-pane windows trimmed above with the stylized t r i a n g u l a r pediment d s n s t s a t e d above t h e entrance door. This same t r i m was used on t h e i n t e r i o r 0 5 t h e s e windows. The half level above on the nortll facade contains three domes windows. The end dormers con ta in double-hung, six-pane sash. The central dormer - is larger and is framed for a door, inzicating a di f ferent type portico existed because the present portico roof half covers the door 02eninq.

Further reinEorcing the symmetrical nature of the house are t h e identical east anZ west.facades of the.main block. On the lower level 05 both facades are double-hung, six-pane windows.' On the upser level two double- hung, six-pane w i n d o w s £.lank the chimney. . . . .,.,.

Rear doers exist inthelow=-roomsofthe main block. (All doors were four panelled). The door in the east xoom enters t h e two-room addition which was heated by a back-to-back brick fireplace.

The central hallway had a rear door and contained t h e open-s*ing stairs to the half level. The stairs are "L" shaped, with W ~ D Z B ~ S , t u r n e d newel, shaped handrail and plain balusters.

The fireplace mantels were carved wood with rectangular openings. Eoth manteis contained pilasters and entablatures, bed mould ings a ~ d -mantel shelves. The west mantel had a mouLdea f r i eze , whereas the east mantel was plain.

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Paper and basebo~-d covered the plaster on wood lath sr3lls of the lower 500111s of the main block. The ceilings wexe plssterer?? also, and the floors were wood supported by l og joists . Wall and floor slxf aces in the upper l e v 3 1 were boarded and papered. L

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The Battle - The Borden House The surrounding land and the Borden House cannot be separated. The Confederate right flank was anchored around the Borden House and orchard where the main fighting of the Prairie Gmve bat t le took place. Briefly stated, General Herron attacked the Conzederate r i g h t flank near noon and it was not until 4 - 0 0 that General B l u n t came on the field to u n i t e t h e Union forces, which then fought together until 7 : O O in the evening. Con- sequently, I i n t e n d to confine t h i s report only to those witnessed accounts which took place on the Confederate right flank in and around the Borden House. I believe t h a t these reports, £ram b t h Korth and South, w i l l prove how important t h i s site is to the Prairie Grove Eattlefield Park and that the existing Borden House and orchard grand must be saved as an original historical landmark i n t ima te ly identified w i t h the main events uhich took place on that Sunday, December 7, 1862.

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"The shape of t h e hill detemined the line of bat t le , which was nearly i n the f o m .of a horseshoe. " . tfien the Con£ ederate .Army had drawn a Line of .

battle around t he hilltop village of Prairie Grove they were already too late to egTage General Herron's Union command alone as .had been desiped ... ' e n e r a 1 Marmaduke was falling back before the Union i n f m t r y , and G e m r a l Shoup had pl.ac.ed his ConEderate division in position to xeet t he expected attack. He had with admirdle judgement selected a strong defensive position upon t h e brow of a densely wooded hill commanding t he Cane Hill and Fzyetteville road and within artillery range of the ford of I l l i n o i s Creek." (Foote)

Prentiss 1888 "The l i n e s of battle seemea very short, the Confederate f r o n t embraced, in general terms, between the Hall House (Eorden House) and the Morton House. East of t he former and w e s t sf the latter the battle seemed to fray out so to speak, and we could find no tradition or landmark. *' kccarding to the Arkansas History Comission, "The most severe fighting of the ba t t l e took place about the Borden House and orchard. " General Herron reported more tha? 300 dead in less than two acres of t h e slopes about t h i s house. Cccu?ying t h e r i c p h t f l a n k of the Confederate A m y , the Borden House saw the start of the ba t t l e , as this flank successfully held the orchard then occupied by an a5andoned Confederate battsry of four pieces which baited the i n i t i a l a t tacks of General Herron. Z*ne following records will prove t h i s , beyond a doubt, by con t inua l ly referring to the one obvicus landmark in this area -- the existing Borden House.

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In the O f f i c i a l . Records: Volume 22, R e p o r t #14, Ge3eral Rerron reports on Decenber 19, 1862: "...when within 100 yards sf the ridge, t h e 20th Wisconsin and the 19th lowa I n f a n t r y were ordered to charge a ba t t e ry placed nea r a fam house (Borden House) , on t h e edge of the hill. The charge was made in gallant style, the enemy dr iven back, and the battery taken, but the ground could not be held ..., Regiment a f t e r regiment of infantry was hurled upon the , and they w e r e compelled to f a l l back."

Colonel O m e 94th Illinois, U.S.A. Tn t h i s same volume of t h e O f f i c i a l Records, Report $31, w r i t t e n on Decenber 10,1062 by Colonel O m e of t h e 94th Illinois: "Meanwhile the 19th Iowa had received and r e tu rned tho, fire of the enemy and now advanced steadily..up -khe.hi l l to the l e f t of t h e white house (Borden House), 2nd across the orchard lsack of the house to a fence, behind which the enemy i n greatly superiar force w e r e concealed. At it approached, t h e enemy rose u? and . poured ir. a mst severe and destructive fire upon it, and the 20th Wisconsin having already commenced to fall back in disorder, the 19th lowa was unable t;o hold its position, and was compelled to f a l l back across the orchard, where Lieutenant Colonel McFarland fell shot through the body. Major D. Kent t hen took command ar.d ral l ied a portion of h i s men, who had fallen back to the right of the battery, near t h e p o s i t i o n of the 94th Xllinois,"

Major Kent 19th Iowa, U.S.A. In the s m e volume 05 t k e ~fficaIRecords, Report $ 3 3 , w r i t t e n Decexber l o t h , 1862 by Major Kent, 19th kwz, who describes thjs charge:". . .The skirmishers advanced under a heavy fire to a cornfield to the right of Bat tery E , 1st Missouri Artillary, and were ordered to hold it at all hazards vrhieh w a s done, u n t i l ordered to f a l l back and form in l i n e of battle. The reg iment was then ordered to advance to t h e left of the white house [Borden House). on t he hill to support t h e 20th Wisconsin which was hotly engaged. The 19th Iowa l e d by Lieutenant Colone l McFarland advanced up the hill steadily and across the orchard back of the house (B0rden.l) when t h e 20th Wisconsin gzve way. The 10th stil l advanced to the fence adjoining t h e tmd, when t h e enemy, concealed, arose to their feet, three regiments deep, pouring a destructive Fire on us f r o m three sides, which caused t h e regiment to caver and fall back to the b a t t e r y , on the left of the road l ead ing up the hill, Lieutenant Colonel McFarland here f e l l , shot through the h d y . I then took command and ral l ied what was left of the regiment, as t h e regiment met with a severe loss in the charge ...- Cclonel O m e then rode up anc i ordered Captain ~ ~ d e r i c k to fall in and rally with the 34thm ILlinuis which he d i d , led by * C o l o n e l Orme in person, driving the enmy back w i t h great slaughter, and holding t h e i r position u n t i l ordered to fall back and reform."

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Major Thompson, 20th Io*da, U.S.A. M a j o r W. C, T?mmpsonr 20th Iowa, in a letter datzd DecemSer 10, 1862, hrote: "We drove them from their p s i t i o n and was stil l fighting near a fence, and an empty house (Borden House) s t o d away a b u t twenty ~ 3 r d ~ from us. A t last 1 heard some of the boys say,'For God's sake, Major, get off your horse or you will be k i l l e d ? ' , for they were shooting at me out of the house and a f e w of the cowards had sneaked i n t o the hause (Earden) and had shot often at me and had missed me. gut just: at sundown and the very last: round t h e y shot at us, one of the cowardly cusses raised the window and took a good aim and I was hit t h a t time...." From t h i s graphic description and from statements by other soldiers, we may conclude t h a t the Borden House survived the heavy i n f a n t r y cumbat and the artillery fire of that day.

Captain Pittman ( C , S . A . ) , in an interview around 1896 relates:" ... On the 7th' af ter the enemy had been driven to sheltex behind his a r t i l l e r y aad t h e s u n h3d goce down in a cloud of sulphurous smoke, the dusk of evening was corning on, our regiment was moved from the corner of t h e Borden orchard where we were formed after. the last charge, and where t h e hardest f i g h t o f the day bad occurred, to a po in t in the w o d s 150 yards to t he s o u t h and w e s t where we were given permission to 'lie down arms'."

THE BURIAL TRENCHES In the Prentiss Report of 1888, mention is made of h i s companion, the Conmissioner, who was a Union veteran and witness of the Prairie Grove battle. The Commissioner relates:"...The next day w e wen t to the fie12 and saw the burial d e t a i l s put t ing the dead in trenches. The piles o f dead where t h e battery was fought over near the H a l l House (Barden House], were frightful. The ground was muddy with blood."

In the P r e n t i s s report of 1888 there is also included the desc r ip t ion given by another Union veteran, the Captain, who relates: "Nut f a r from the house (Borden House) were depressions in the ground, and piles of gravelly and barren earth covered wi th green mould. These mark the trenches where t h e Union dead w e r e buried and from whence their poor bones w e r e afterward removed. There w e r e other t r e n c h e s in the orchard now enclosed.-.All this ground was fought over, the combatants being genera l ly ti13 troops or Herron's command and the Arkansans. .Frost's Missourians, w h o in the o r i g i n a l Confederate p lan of battle were plzced On t h i s flank, were soon s e n t to t h e Confederate l e f t . "

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going when they narckid ou t cf Van Buren on the 3rd of December. They recognized the distarA silhouette of the Soston Mountains. B u t they could hudLy have forseen that the battle ;qhicA t h e y anticipated m u l d occur ;.;i t a n s ight and socnd of their h o m e s -- with t h e i r own kin huddled in cellars or ministering to t h e wounded. The 34th Arkansas fought and d i ed on home grounds -- Crawford% Prairie, the Morton Earn, t he Borden orchard..,. II

The Camndinq Generals Hindman, Herron, and Blunt reported 3 3 8 k i l l e d and 1,630 wounded in a c t i o n , for a total of 2,568 men. The high loss of 10% of the troops engaged s t a n d s as an exception to most Civil W a r battles, and indicates the severity of the in fan t ry combat here and of the signifi- cant part which artillery had in this b a t t l e . The! records show that axound 600 of the wounasd subsequently died. "Losses in killed, wounded, and missins total& 1,317 fo r the Confederates and 1,251 fo r the Federals. Of the l a k t e r only 333 were from Blunt's Command indic-F -potion of t h e conf l i c t Berron's men had borne. " Tne Records show that of The counted wonnded, 430 died in the A m y h o s p i t a l at ~ayetteville, 150 in t h e churches an3 homes nf Cane Hill, Prairie Grove, and others along the Cave Creek and Telegraph Road.

In the Prentiss report of 1888 a description of the baktle w a s given by Mrs. Staples, who relates h e r personal view of t h e f i g h t on the Confederate left flank around t h e tqorton House. Prentiss wrote t h a t , "The mistress of the mansion now is Mrs. Staples, nee' Mortontwho was a young woman at t h e time 05 t h e f i q h t . The storm of h a t t l e , drif t i n 9 from the east end of the ridge to t h e westward, drove the women and children to the Morton House, where they took refuge in 2 s l - t a l l o w cellar which Mrs, Stap les s h o w s to visitors. The i n c i d e n t most v iv id in her mind was coming up from the cellar to ge t some garments to.cover the c h i l d r e n who were s u f f e r i n g from c o l d . "

Y e t , there is a copy of a typed manuscript i n the Rare Documents file of t3e Axkansas History Commission in L i t t l e Rack e n t i k l e d , Personal -- Recollections OF the Battle of prairie Grove, andl is thoughtto have been wri t t en by lks . Staples around 1895. It: reads, "Early in the day t h e bsttle commenced on the m r d e n farm east of t h e grove, lasting u n t i l sunset, w i a d i n g up on t h e Morton farm One mile west. The families were ordered w p s t to the first cellar, which was Morton's. Those in the cellar during the battle were N.3. and J.F. Morton, Ira. M o r t ~ n , I.?mm, D. Rogers, wife and t h r e c children, A. Borden, wif e a n d five ch i ld ren , E l i z a Borden , Dr. Rogers, wife and two children. hTe a l l remained in the cellar till dark, but f w e n t into the house ssveral t i m e s to get v i c t u a l s acd some bedclothes 2nd wraps for t h e c h i l d r e n .... Mother shocking affair w a s h e l 2 i n g to bury m. Borden, a brother of A. BoPben, who was brutally k i l l e d in the Pittman lane. " From t h i s statement IGT c a n easily infer that the Confezerates had

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placed their sharpshooters in the Borden Zouse to the east w:?ich offered an excellent view of the initial attacks of the Union .iirmy of General Herran's command. It is also easy to imagine sharpshooters occu3ying t h e Borden cellar, which was protected from shot and shell- By removing some of the stacked stones of the founclation located i n the northeast corner of t he house they could have created a small , concealed position in the center of combat. They t o l d the Borden family to g e t out of their house.

In the Prenkiss report of 1888, this journalist: begins his i ~ t e r v i e w around Prair ie Grove by relating that, "Morning cane, chill, cloudy and for- bidding. We walked along the business street, what may be called the Post O f f ice street , in search of Con£ ederate 'contemporaries' who could speak of t h e Prairie Grave bat t le from observation. There were several of t h e m , all belonging that day ta Fagan's Arkansas Brigade which held the Confederate r igh t . They thought tha Confederate guns, over which the savage f i g h t occurred at the white house {Rarden i.louse1, belonged to Blocher' s Arkansas Battery. They spoke of the spot where the dead men were pi led thickest, as the place where the horses were killed* his refers to the Captain's story in the next ferr paragraphs.)

".. .By general consent, M r . Bill Rogers, who lived on the edge of the ridge and who, w i t h h i s family connections, owned a large por t ion of the field, they thought .the best g u i d e procurable, and Mr. Rogers kkes foW.d later in t h e morning and obligingly mounted h i s mcPe and rode over t he f i e l d . 'r;e went first to the white house IBorden House) on t h e right of the Confederate l i n e , overlooking the ford where t h e road from F a y e t t e v i l l e crosses. From near this house (Borden House) the Confederate artillery opened on Hexron's troops when crossing, an3 w e r e replied to first by Bzc:!haf's Battery. Here the 20th Wisconsin and the 19th Iowa made the first chzrge of the day, carrying the ridge, only to be forced back. "

The Captain's story - 1888. " . . . W e came to a stream (it was the I l l i n b i s Creek1 and w e moved along the bank down the stream ane formed in line ... The batteries cancluded the i r d i s p u t e for a time; the non were wakened and stood up in line, and then moved t w ~ a r d it. (The physical c o n d i t i o n of t h e men refers to t he forced march of General Hexron's men of 110 miles from t h e i r camp near Springfield, Missouri,) And the fire fron the guns on the crest, and the musketry fire, seemed to grow thlcker and louder as r * ~ neared It. I saw a white house(mrden House) on t t a crest and to our right. We came to t h d foot of the r idge , t h e slope c3~rered w i t h aWtangle of vines and bushes and trees. Buried in t h i s for a few morr.ents, we were sheltered as if we had gone into a fortress. (This refers to a na tura l

bench in t h e hill below t he Borden House.) We came out near the cres2,

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and :bere was a newly-built rail fence, m.d there, a f e w feet off , so that t;e looking into their muzzles, were the guns, and nearby t h e horses starding q u i e t l y attached to the caissons. Tho guns w h i c h had been belching flame and smoke all norning stood there still and cold, and the horses as if waiting for us. We could have t aken t he horses away, but some officer called out to 'shmt the h o r s e s . 9 e n and officers called o u t in reply, 'save the horses."gain the-senseless order was repeated and this time obeyed. The be.mtifnl horses -;ere p i l e d in a b l d y heap, and the men swarmed over and around t h e quns and a great cheer w e n t up."

"Two minutes elapsed, the last stragglers were working their way out of t he brush and up to the crowd about the guns, when d ic ip l ine asserted itself, th5 bkoken mass was formed in Line and began to sweeg u2 the crest and over it, and down the far ther slope, and coming to another rise, we saw five gray lines, one behifid the other, and they blazed, one after the other, down in our faces. "

"The impeb~s of the charge lasted until t h e r eg imen t reached a r a v i n e at the f e e t , so to speak of the enany. Bere we stood and fired up the slope and a >ail o f bullets answering smi t ing our line, and then the men lay down acd f ixed as they had been taught to do....there were no more men al ive an? unwounded in the ravine by that time. I passed t h e battery we had tak5n. The guns stood as we had Left thm."

Prerltiss c o n t i n l . ~ o s his observations i n the v i c i n i t y of this battery: "The w h i t e house 05 today is a neat cot tage w i t h dormer w i n d o w s , and is occupied by a family named F a l l , newcomers to the country. (Courthouse records i n d i c a t that they were i n t h e Borden House in t h i s year 1888, t h e time of this xeport.) The inclosure s h u t the house seem recent. (Probbly r d e l e d by t he previous owner, Fx. W . W. Blanton who is listed i n the Washington Coun ty Courthouse Record Books G2-177 and G2-202 purchasins t h e house and land i n the year 1881.1 To the east, or in the rear of the houser is a young orchard, taking the place o f the old orchard which g r e w t he rc at the time of the bat t le , and where Lieutenant Colonel McFarland of t h e 19th Iowa, ... was killed . . . .To the southward, or nearer t h e sumnit of the ridge, much of f i e t i m c r has been c u t away, To the west of the I-..owe ( P a r k proper ty) and immediately arolrnd it the re seems to have been Eer? changes except those m8de by the hand oC na tuxe. The trces heve grown, a change which , occu r r inq on a l i these forested b a t t l e f i e l d s , alters their appearance more that anyth ing man has done; h u t there would be na d i f f i c u l t y , we shouid t h i n k , ir. a veteran of t h e 20th Wisconsin,' or 19th Iowa, ow 3 7 t h Illinois, cr 26th I n d i a n a , from f i n d i n g again t h e R C W P . . - . ' I

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I have confined the accounts oE the Pra i r ie Grove battle to t h e Confederate right f l a x k , which is located in and around the Barden House and orchard and where the burial trenches were excavated. The witnesses t e l l t h e s t o r y of the battle of Pra i r i e Grove and 1 do n o t t h i n k that we can improve u p n t h e i r description.

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Blunt's Attack (Confederate left flank)

Center Herron ' s . A . t t ack (Cbnfedera-e r i g h t flank] Archihnld Sorden House . .

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Herron ' s A t t acL of t h e Confederate Righ t F l a n k

* A characteristic of the Union charges i s t h a t t h e y were d i s j o i n t e d and made in detachments of i n s u f f i c i e n t s t r e n g t h .

* k heniny reliance on a s t r o n g and wll s.erved artillery ssved t h e Union forces from disaster a$ Pra i r i e Grvve. -

:'erguson, Jok? L, .Qk&nsas and t h e C i v i l N z r . Little ~ o c k , W:cansas;Pianeer Press, 196a. Jphnson, Robet U. and Clarence Clough, eds. B a t t l e s and Leaders of the Civil War, V01.

111, New York: The Century Conpany, l a a d . ! Ler;l.!ce, W. 3. , ed, " 2at t le of Prairie Grovo. " Wx.Rinqtor. Comty Fristerical S o c i e t y i

Flashback, V91. 11, #6 (Decsmber, 1952) , and Vol.XII f 4 , 1362) . Vatrl;:?t, Elsa. "Diary o 5 a n Unknown Soldier." Arkansas K i s b r i c a l Quarterly, Vol. I

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