"The Battle of Pea Ridge" - A song about the Battle of Pea Ridge/Elk Horn Tavern - Jim Taylor

This is a song about Earl Van Dorn's Army of the West at the Battle of Pea Ridge / Elk Horn Tavern, fought in north-western Arkansas on the 7th-8th of March, 1862. Interestingly, the song states that 10,000 men were lost, though the Confederates only lost around 2,500 in reality, and that Sterling Price was wounded by a "fatal shot", he was certainly wounded on the first day of the battle, but he survived it, and the war, in fact.

Not only did he survive the wound, his Missourians also won Elk Horn Tavern, before losing it the following day in a fierce counterattack.