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Title
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Missouri Civil War Letters of Benjamin W. Baker
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Description
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Benjamin "Webb" Baker was a member of Company E, 25th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment. He was involved in various battles and encounters in Missouri during the Civil War. His letters were written from such places in Missouri as St. Louis, Jefferson City, Otterville, Sedalia, Warsaw, Springfield, Rolla, Sharon, Forsyth, and Barry County. He also was involved in the Battle of Pea Ridge. From a Nov. 5, 1861 letter written at Springfield, Missouri he writes, "we have traveled, almost all over the state of Missouri since I left home. We have been [with]in one day's march of a fight 5 or 6 times but have not got there yet, & guess we never will. Price escaped from Lexington & came to this place when we again came up with him after a toilsome march of 120 miles".
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Date
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1905-06-25
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Sergeant Herschel Felton, 37th Illinois Infantry, Describes the Grisly Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas
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Description
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Part of Wiley Sword's War Letters Series in the magazine. Herschel Felton writes his future wife of his experience in battle at Pea Ridge, Arkansas. "Herschel Felton was an adventuresome young man who had been raised on a farm at Millersburg, Illinois. He enlisted as a sergeant in Co. H, 37th Illinois Volunteer Infantry..." Includes a picture of Julius White, in whose brigade the 37th fought.
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Date
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2005
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Object Type
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Magazine
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Title
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A Forgotten Battle In a Region Ignored...
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Description
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Article describes a battle that the author feels has largely been ignored in Civil War literature. Although the battle of Pea Ridge took place in Arkansas, it was decisive in determining which way Missouri would go. Article includes extensive photographs of officers and politicians and sites and a map of Curtis' Invasion of Arkansas.
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Date
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1988-01
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Object Type
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Magazine
