$Intro <FONT=HelpHeader,C,8,12,24>PR3b-March 7-Price at Elkhorn Tavern (C-Div)
   
<FONT=HelpText,L,195,4,39>Length of Play:<FONT=HelpText,L,8,12,24> 60 minutes
 
<FONT=HelpText,L,195,4,39>Command:<FONT=HelpText,L,8,12,24> Major General Sterling 'Pap' Price
<FONT=HelpText,L,195,4,39>Date:<FONT=HelpText,L,8,12,24> 7 March 1862
<FONT=HelpText,L,195,4,39>Time Span:<FONT=HelpText,L,8,12,24> 2:00 P.M. to late evening (game-clock: 2:00 - 3:00, sunset at 2:55) 
<FONT=HelpText,L,195,4,39>Location:<FONT=HelpText,L,8,12,24> Northwest Arkansas, Benton County
<FONT=HelpText,L,195,4,39>Weather:<FONT=HelpText,L,8,12,24> Partly cloudy and cold, just above freezing 
 
<FONT=HelpText,L,195,4,39>Situation:<FONT=HelpText,L,8,12,24> After marching all night, Price's division, as planned, proceeded south on Telegraph Road around the east side of a rugged, wooded ridge called Big Mountain.  Personally led by Van Dorn, the division approached Elkhorn Tavern from the north on Telegraph Road.  Shortly before noon the weary Confederates reached the steep slope that leads from the floor of Cross Timber Hollow to the top of Pea Ridge. Fighting erupted unexpectedly when the leading Rebels ran into a Union skirmish line near a tanyard at the foot of the slope.  
 
<FONT=HelpText,L,195,4,39>Mission:<FONT=HelpText,L,8,12,24> Secure all objectives and drive the Union force south.
  
<FONT=HelpText,L,195,4,39>Victory Conditions:<FONT=HelpText,L,8,12,24>
  5000 = Major Victory
  4500 = Minor Victory   (Minimum Score for CarryOver)       
  3000 = Draw
  2500 = Minor Defeat
  2000 = Major Defeat

 
<FONT=HelpText,L,195,4,39>Forces Available: <FONT=HelpText,L,8,12,24>6988 troops
 
Major General Sterling 'Pap' Price	   
 
Colonel Henry Little	   
3rd Missouri Infantry Regiment 	   
2nd Missouri Infantry Regiment 	   
1st Missouri Cavalry Regiment 	   
6th Missouri State Guard Division 	   
 
Colonel William Y Slack	   
Rosser's  Missouri Battalion	   
Hughes'  Missouri Battalion	   
Bevier's  Missouri Battalion	   
 
Brigadier General Daniel M Frost	   
McBride's M.S.G. Infantry	   
Champion's Dismounted Cav Bn	   
Greene's 3rd Missouri Brigade	   
 
Colonel John Bullock Clark Jr 	   
1st Missouri State Troops 	   
2nd Missouri State Troops 	   
3rd Missouri State Troops 	   
4th and 5th Missouri State Troops 	   
6th Missouri State Troops 	   
 
Colonel James P Saunders	   
1st and 2nd MO Infantry Militia	   
3rd MO Infantry Militia	   
1st MO Infantry Militia Bn	   
McCarty's Cavalry Battalion	   
 
Brig Gen James S Rains	   
Erwin's Missouri State Infantry Reg	   
Bowman's Missouri State Infantry Reg	   
Pearcy's Missouri State Infantry Reg	   
Stemmons' Missouri State Inf Reg	   
 
Colonel Elijah Gates	   
Shelby's Independant Cavalry	   	   
Cearnal’s M.S.G. Cavalry Bn	   
5th Division M.S.G. Cav Detachment 	   
 
Colonel Robert (Bob) L McCulloch	   
2nd Missouri Cavalry	 
Riggins’ Missouri Cavalry Bn	   
Gause’s Missouri Squadron	 
 
Wade's Missouri Battery (6 guns)
Clark's Missouri Battery (4 guns) 
Landis' Missouri Battery (4 guns)
Jackson's Missouri Battery (4 guns)
Kneisley's Missouri Battery (5 guns) 
Tull's Battery (4 guns) 
Kelly's Battery (5 guns) 
Gorham's Battery (4 guns) 
Guibor's Battery (4 guns)
MacDonald's St. Louis Battery (3 guns) 
Bledsoe's Battery (4 guns)
 
<FONT=HelpText,L,195,4,39>Opposing Forces: <FONT=HelpText,L,8,12,24>Carr's 4th Division plus elements of the 1st thru 3rd Divisions, 5181 troops
 
 
<FONT=HelpText,L,195,4,39>Scenario Author:<FONT=HelpText,L,8,12,24> Randy Keen "RebBugler"
 
<FONT=HelpText,L,195,4,39>Author's Notes: <FONT=HelpText,L,8,12,24>
- Objectives award 1000 bonus points each, six minutes activated.
- Study the cavalry units weapons' ranges, short ranged (60 yds.) units are highly vulunerable to musket fire.  They should be held back out of range and used for charge and melee actions only.
- To learn more about the troop positions and movements on the Pea Ridge battlefield check out the included folder: Battle Map Extras.
 
 
Sterling Price (1809–1867)
 
Born in Prince Edward County, Virginia, on September 20, 1809, into a wealthy planting family, Price attended Hampton-Sydney College for one year and then studied law. Sterling’s parents, Pugh Price and Elizabeth (Williamson) Price, had three other sons and a daughter. Around 1831, Price accompanied his parents west to Missouri. There, he married Martha Head on May 14, 1833, and was active in a number of enterprises, most notably tobacco farming. Residing near Keytesville in Chariton County, Price went on to serve six years in the Missouri state legislature, including four as the speaker. In 1844, Price was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
 
In August 1846, Price resigned from Congress and took command of a regiment from Missouri to participate in the Mexican War. Assigned to Santa Fe, New Mexico, Price served as the commander of the American forces in the area. After quelling an uprising by the local Pueblo Indians, he led an invasion into Mexico itself, capturing the city of Chihuahua.
 
Returning to Missouri as a brevet brigadier general, Price parlayed his war record and a schism in the state’s Democratic Party into the governorship in 1853. His administration was marked by a lack of involvement in the border war that erupted with Kansas over the issue of slavery. Leaving office in 1857, he returned to his plantation and served as bank commissioner. He was elected as a conditional Unionist to the 1861 Secession Convention and presided as its president. As war broke out, Price witnessed an incident in which Federal troops fired into a crowd of civilians who were protesting the arrest of pro-Southern militia men. He was soon selected as the commander of the Missouri State Guard with the rank of major general.
 
At the August 10, 1861, Battle of Wilson’s Creek, Missouri, Price’s Missouri State Guard and Confederate forces, including units from Arkansas under the command of Brigadier General Benjamin McCulloch, met the Union army and pushed back its advance into southwestern Missouri. Later in the summer, Price led his troops to Lexington, Missouri, where they captured the Union garrison stationed there.
 
During the winter of 1861–1862, many of the Missouri guardsmen transferred into the Confederate army, and two Missouri brigades were formed. Early in 1862, the Federal army forced Price and his men to withdraw from Missouri and enter Arkansas. On March 7–8, the Confederate army, including the Missouri units and Price, engaged the Union army at the Battle of Pea Ridge. After the battle, Major General Earl Van Dorn’s army was transferred from Arkansas across the Mississippi River and moved to defend Corinth, Mississippi. Price, in the meantime, had finally accepted a commission as a major general in the Confederate army. 