 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Musi waDecember 7, bhatiri rakanga rakabatanidzwa mukati meHondo yePrairie GrovemuArkansas. Munguva yehondo, Roberts Battery yaiva chikamu chebhurugwa raColonel Robert G. Shaver, pamwe chete nemapoka akawanda evashandi vanobva kuArkansas. Boka raShaver rakatanga rakachengetedzwa, asi rakarayirwa kubva kuConfederate kuruboshwe kuruboshwe kurudyi neuto reTrans-Mississippi mutungamiri Major General Thomas C. Hindman. Battery yaRoberts yakabva yaenda mberi kumucheto. Nzvimbo itsva yebhatiri yakapa nzvimbo yakajeka yemoto pamusoro peBrigadier General Francis J. Herrons Union division. Pamapfuti mana ebhatiri, pfuti mbiri chete dzaJames ndidzo dzaigona kuendeswa nekuda kwenzvimbo, kunyangwe hazvo mapfuti maviri e6-pounders aive achiri nebhatiri. Pfuti dzaJames ndidzo chete pfuti dzaiva nemapfuti dzaiwanika kuConfederates paPrairie Grove. Mushure mokuparadzira, Bhatiri raRoberts rakaputirwa neuto reUnion. VaMissourian vakazotora nzvimbo itsva pasi pegomo racho. Kunyange munzvimbo itsva, pfuti huru yeUnion yakaita kuti nzvimbo yebhateri isagadzirisike, uye pfuti dzakadzorerwa kumusoro kwechikomo. Pakupedzisira, Roberts akasarudza kuti bhatiri racho rakanga risingagoni kuchengeta nzvimbo yaro, uye vapfuri vakasiya zvimedu ndokupotera mumamwe masango aiva pedyo. Bhatiri rakanga rapinda muhondo paPrairie Grove kwemaawa maviri, uye rakakuvadza zvombo zviviri zveBhatiri L, 1st Missouri Light Artillery; imwe pfuti kubva mubhatiri yakakuvadza murume akatasva pedyo neHerron. Hondo yakaguma pakasviba, uye maConfederate akadzokera shure kubva munhandare. Kuti vasaona ruzha rwekudzokera shure, mavhiri emaguruva nemabhokisi eBattery yaRoberts akanga akafukidzwa nemabhanhire. Kudzokera kwacho kwakapfuurira kutozosvikira maConfederate asvika kuVan Buren, muitiro wakatora mazuva maviri. 