The Pea Ridge Campaign of 1862
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- The Pea Ridge Campaign of 1862 marks the climax of the struggle for Missouri. Presented in cutting edge digital video, this film is also a documents of the famous Pea Ridge Re-enactment of 1995, featuring a cast of thousands in authentic uniforms with accurate weaponry. Now you can watch this classic Wide Awake Films documentary from the archive.
This film is part of Wide Awake Films' Classic Collection. These films were produced by Wide Awake Films and were available for purchase on DVD. They've since been digitized and made available in full on TH-cam for your viewing pleasure. Please enjoy.
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Two of my g-g-grandfathers were at Pea Ridge, each with a brother by his side. William Burwell Temple and brother John were with the 6th Texas Cavalry. Charles Graves Ward and brother Henry served in the 9th Iowa Infantry. At Pea Ridge, Charles Ward was wounded in the left arm and brother Henry was killed right by his side. Charles' wound prevented him from fighting anymore, but he insisted on continuing to serve as an enlisted aide and wasn't discharged until July 1865. William and John Temple both saw some serious combat at Pea Ridge but survived without injuries. Their 6th Texas Cavalry (Dismounted) was later involved in the Second Battle of Corinth where William suffered a slight wound and brother John was killed right by his side. William was only in a field hospital for a couple of days and returned to service. He was furloughed in late 1864 due a serious disease infection from which he never fully recovered. Heart pounding stories!
Thank y'all for putting these old documentaries up. They may have many a thing in them wrong with uniforms and so on, (old reenactments from the good ole days), and may only be a primer history wise with some a little off, but ones like this one are still among the best made.
Yes, 1862 Rebel uniforms in western territories were not as torn as shawn.
@@jebstuart4004 😂 Shawn? What? Oh my god, man.
I have been wanting to buy this film 🎥 since forever!! This is freaking awesome!!
A southern soldier, a prisoner of war was asked why are you fighting? He said because you're down here.
Thanks for this great film and comments noting some inaccuracies. This brings history to life. Child contraband Cathay Williams was a witness at Pea Ridge. At wars end she went back to Missouri changed her name to William Cathay,disguised herself as a man and joined the 38th Infantry Regiment. In 1866 she became the 1st Black documented women in the US regular army.
She served until 1866.
The importance of the US Army of the Southwest and its victory at Pea Ridge can not be overestimated. Missouri and Arkansas would never again be in Confederate hands and St. Louis and Little Rock and the Mississippi River belonged to the Federals all the way south to near Vicksburg.
I've been to this field twice and both times I felt I was being watched
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@@liberalman8319 Fields like Pea Ridge, like Antietam and Gettysburg are all haunted by the men and memories of those who fought and died there.
3:54 Talking about the Kansas border wars of the 1850s and shows dead man with 1873 Colt Single Action Army revolver.
A side note- after more than one hundred fifty years, schools and streets and other sites named after Albert Pike who commanded a Native Indian division of Confederate troops who scalped dying Union soldiers at Pea Ridge and was responsible for other atrocities, had their names formally changed.
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And that was stupid.....
Thanks for the service of the confederates who laid down their lives for defending their home
The Border states as Kentucky, Missoury, Maryland and the the later border state as West Virgina approx 2/3 of their people were pro Union and only 1/3 of their people were pro Confederat. The only border state Delaware people was almost 100% pro Union but there were approx 1500 slaves only. City of St Louis was almost 100% pro Union in Missouri, the iron clad brown water fleet was built for the Union special to help General Grant in this city. However 1/3 of Tenneessee's people (East Tenneessee) were pro Union and a Western part of North Carolina gave soildiers for the Union. East Tennessee wanted to seccess from Tenneesse as West Virginia, but this was stopped by Army of the Confederat, later Andrew Jackson stopped this, when all Tenneessee was occupied by Union's troops! I have learnt Ozarck region gave soldiers to the Union, because one part of this region was pro Union. I have learnt some less areas in North Georgia and North Alabama were pro Union moreover some small areas were in the North Texas and Missisipi states with little pro Union people.
Kansas was almost 100% pro Union, but 1000 soldiers went to fight for the Confederates. Funny but approx 1/3 of California was pro Confederates and there were small partisan action there, The Rocky Mountain territorial area was similar as the border states, because there 1/3 were pro Confederates and interesting the mormons were pro Unions! New Mexico was pro Union in mayority!
Your info is just plain wrong Yankee.
@@richty3845yeah he’s way off. In fact west Va. was no where close to majority pro federal, only 3 or 4 counties were. It was that the war was looking grim and the US was looking to make sure they took something away from it if the war wearying north withdrew from the war.
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Initially Arkansas chose not to join the Confederacy but political machinations of secessionist forces caused a later vote and a reverse of the original vote. Northwest Arkansas was staunchly pro Union.
Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia were in the second wave of secession. The reason they left is the first call for state troops to quell the rebellion by Lincoln specified numbers of regiments to be furnished by each remaining state. In the past, when state troops were requested, it was by total number. Imagine what would have happened if Lincoln had just asked for the maximum of 75,000 state volunteers, instead of specifying a quota of regiments. The four states would have at least stayed neutral; Missouri wouldn't have had a shadow Confederate Government, and possibly Generals like Lee, Jackson. Pickett and others wouldn't have entered the war.
Oh, it was said that New York and Ohio were ready to fill the entire 75,000 quota by themselves...
Northwest Arkansas was absolutely not “staunchly pro-Union.” Not even close. The area did field the highest concentration of pro-unionists in the state but it was overwhelmingly more pro-Confederate. Also, it wasn’t political machinations of secessions that cause Arkansas to join the Confederacy, it was Lincoln’s illegal call for 75,000 volunteers to invade the Southern Confederacy.