Pulaski Arkansas Battery-Wilson's Creek National Battlefield - Republic MO
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Don.Morfe
N 37° 06.217 W 093° 24.343
15S E 463949 N 4106444
From this position the four cannon of the Pulaski Arkansas Battery supported Confederate infantry during the Battle of Wilson's Creek. Two artillerists were killed by opposing cannon shot here, and one was wounded by a minie ball.
Waymark Code: WM136XB
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 09/29/2020
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Pulaski Arkansas Battery-Wilson's Creek National Battlefield-- From this position the four cannon of the Pulaski Arkansas Battery supported Confederate infantry during the Battle of Wilson's Creek. Two artillerists were killed by opposing cannon shot here, and one was wounded by a minie ball.
Despite the casualties, Captain William E. Woodruff believed his battery had a very successful day of gunning. Woodruff wrote, "Our fire was ... directed where it could be advantageously used without injury to our own troops, sometimes at the opposing battery, at others against the assaults of the enemy on the hill to the northwest..."
The guns in place here today are aimed toward the site of the opposing batteries on "Bloody Hill."
LOCATION: Marker is near Battlefield, Missouri, in Greene County. Marker can be reached from Tour Road, on the right when traveling south. Located along a short trail from stop 3, the East Battlefield Overlook, of the Wilson's Creek battlefield driving tour. Marker is in this post office area: Brookline MO 65619, United States of America.
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