This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature.

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William Shea offers a gripping narrative of the events surrounding Prairie Grove, Arkansas, one of the great unsung battles of the Civil War that effectively ended Confederate offensive operations west of the Mississippi River.

In many cases, these documents address aspects of the war that would become objects of scholarly and popular fascination only years after their initial appearance: the guerrilla conflict that became the "real war" west of the Mississippi; ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Not to say that the murders in the county all stemmed from conflict along its western border-plenty of blood spilled within its communities and homesteads. The fifty chapters of this collection each focus on one violent incident.