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- (Circa 1770–1843), Cherokee Indian scholar; Cherokee name Sogwali; also known as George Guess or Gist. He invented a writing system (the Cherokee syllabary) 1809–21 for the Cherokee language and with it taught thousands of Cherokee Indians to read and write. The giant sequoia trees of California are named for him.


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Friday, August 6, 2010
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I had considered the recently-constituted Special Council on Tax Reform and Fairness for Georgians just so much political hooey until I saw who was elected chairman of the council: Adolphus Drewry Frazier Jr.
If tax reform is an immovable object, it is about to meet an irresistible force in A.D. Frazier. The 10-member body — which includes Gov. Sonny Perdue — is a blue-ribbon group of businesspeople and economists, and I commend the governor for pushing through legislation to create the council. The council is charged with studying the state's current revenue structure and making recommendations for appropriate legislation to the speaker of the house and lieutenant governor. If all goes as planned, a special joint committee will then write a bill which will be voted on by the General Assembly without amendments. The political reality, of course, is that we will have a new governor and at least one-third of the General Assembly will be new by the time the matter gets to legislation. However, tax lobbyists are forever, and they will be on this effort like white on rice, trying to cast any tax reform in the image that fits their own narrow special interest. Good luck, lobbyists. Get in his way and A.D. Frazier will roll you like a cheap cigar. The man gets from point A to point B in a hurry and damn anything in his way. Look for "outspoken" in the dictionary and you are likely to find his photo. A.D. was the chief operating officer for the 1996 Centennial Olympics, and I was managing director for public affairs and communications. My job was to secure federal funding for the games, deal with the worldwide media and keep A.D. Frazier from saying outrageously quotable things or offending high government poobahs with his caustic comments. The miracle is that we didn't kill each other before the Olympic torch was ever lit. Often, I would march into his office in high dudgeon intending to throw him and his potty-mouth out the window, only to end up laughing at his latest outrageous antic. It is hard not to like the man. Needless to say, we have been and remain good friends. Frazier is a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat. How dyed? He managed the inauguration of President Jimmy Carter, which I liken to christening the Titanic. He also led the team to reorganize the White House under President Peanut, which makes me wonder how bad things would have been if he hadn't been around. But I digress. His job now is to look at tax reform in Georgia. Frazier said he plans to hold meetings across the state, likely in late August or early September, to hear what changes you think should be made regarding tax reform. This will be a great opportunity for you to get your two cents' worth in. The disappointment is that how our legislators spend our tax money isn't on the table. According to Morris News Service, Frazier said, "I expect to see our actions as a manifestation of economic development, as a manifestation of job creation, good business judgment, not so much an effort to fund existing expenditures." I'm not sure when my man started using big words like "manifestation," but I hope he understands that there will be little economic development and job creation if we don't make some tax expenditures a priority, like public education. Who is going to come to a state with a poorly educated work force? Also casting a dark cloud over the good intentions of the council is the fact we are being bled dry by a federal government with all the discipline of a 2-year-old on a sugar rush. The last time I looked, our national debt is $13 trillion and rising. No matter how well we handle tax reform in Georgia, American taxpayers — that's us — are facing a financial catastrophe nationally. When he is finished in Georgia, I wish President Barack Obama would give Adolphus Drewry Frazier Jr. a shot at changing Washington's wicked ways. He might not succeed but it would be great fun watching him try. I'm just glad we didn't kill each other. E-mail columnist Dick Yarbrough at email@example.com like this story
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Kenwood End of Bed Chest
Kenwood's planked panels and strap hinges borrow from the vernacular architecture of old American barns.
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As parents become increasingly concerned with both the intellectual and moral decline of public education, home schooling is rapidly on the rise in the United States. And with the increased popularity of home schooling have come the attacks on it by its enemies in the public education establishment.
At the heart of this fight over home schooling is a fundamental difference between parents and the public school establishment on the questions of parental rights and religious liberty. Most parents who educate their children at home do so because they see it as their duty to inculcate the moral and intellectual virtues in their children, and to raise them as practicing members of their religious faith.
But the union officials and career bureaucrats who control the public education establishment seem to think that the state — not parents — is primarily responsible for the raising of children and for instilling in them the beliefs it deems most important. Parental involvement is too often viewed as "interfering" with the "professionals" who know best.
Where did this attitude of the public education establishment come from? It certainly represents nothing new in American politics, as its roots can be traced to the founders of modern American liberalism, the progressives.
The general view of progressivism, which peaked at the beginning of the 20th century, supported a vast expansion of state power and a complete devotion of the individual to the common enterprise of the state. Contrary to the thinking of America's founders, who had established clear lines between the public and private, and therefore strict limits on government, the progressives argued that government was, in principle, unlimited because it was based upon scientific expertise.
The leading magazine of progressive opinion in the early part of the 20th century — The New Republic — insisted that children be made to remain open to the secular ideas that the state needed to instill in them. It explained that "the older view of eighteenth-century liberalism was that the democratic state must allow every one freedom to practice almost any creed, . . . but twentieth-century democracy believes that the community has certain positive ends to achieve, and if they are to be achieved the community must control the education of the young." Parents could not be allowed to instill in their children any contrary teaching. Under this new view of education, The New Republic argued, "the plasticity of the child shall not be artificially and prematurely hardened" by private religious education. The progressives attacked parental rights as "the freedom of older people to impose their dogmas on the young."
This argument of the progressives came from the German idealistic philosophy with which most progressive intellectuals had been educated. Karl Marx himself made a direct attack on home schooling, explaining that parental rights over the upbringing of children could not be allowed because parents exploit children. In the Communist Manifesto, Marx asks: "Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty." He mocked "the bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parent and child."
This philosophic attack on parental rights, brought into the American tradition by progressivism, has reared its head at various points throughout our contemporary history. In the famous 1972 case of Wisconsin v. Yoder, where the state attempted to force Amish students into public high school, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas reasoned that parents who eschew public education may very well be impermissibly forcing their own religious views down their children's throats. Just as the progressives had resisted the right of parents to instill their religious beliefs in their children, Douglas wrote that "the inevitable effect is to impose the parents' notions of religious duty upon their children." The fundamental premise for Douglas was that children needed the state's protection from the religious views of their parents. In making educational choices, Douglas insisted that "it is the student's judgment, not his parents', that is essential."
If this sounds familiar, it is because it is the same attack on parental rights and religious liberty made by contemporary liberals like Hillary Clinton, who want to "protect" children from the values of their parents.
Fortunately, the Court in the Wisconsin v. Yoder case upheld the "traditional interest of parents with respect to the religious upbringing of their children" — Justice Douglas' dissent notwithstanding. But views like those of Douglas and Mrs. Clinton only show that the troubling tenets of progressivism continue to find adherents, something home schooling parents know well as they fight to fend off the public education establishment.


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Last week's extraordinary weather affected sports in unexpected ways. The West Virginia state soccer tournament was among events to be changed.
The Class AAA and Class AA-A semifinals and finals, originally slotted for Nov. 2-3 in Beckley, are taking place today and Wednesday at Schoenbaum Soccer Stadium in Coonskin Park for the big-school class, and the Trace Fork Soccer Complex along Corridor G for the combined Class AA and A teams.
This is the first time more than one competitive class will be held in Charleston.
The West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission (WVSSAC) announced that while they "regret the cancellation in Beckley," they are looking forward to the competition in Charleston.
"Everyone in Charleston has really stepped up to the plate in an effort to make this happen," said Gary Ray, executive director of the WVSSAC. "It's going to be a great experience for all the kids and parents involved."
The Charleston Convention and Visitors Bureau and WVSSAC officials went into a flurry of activity to firm up the arrangements.
"This tournament will have an estimated economic impact of nearly $70,000,"said CVB President/CEO Alisa Bailey. "If you add this amount to the group's other annual competitions, WCVSSAC has an estimated $13.5 million economic impact on Charleston."
PikeView soccer coach Sam Hill, whose girls team plays today, said, "I respect their decision. It'd have been hard to get the fields (in Beckley) playable.
"The biggest thing, you could have played one, maybe two games on them, but by the time you played that fourth game on Tuesday, the field would have been difficult to play on, for sure."
The delay of almost a week will mean for PikeView, "It's going to be two full weeks since we've played a game, and obviously you don't want to go that long, normally, without completing," Hill said.
"Fortunately, we're not carrying too many injuries, so really we didn't need the time to heal up."
Last Wednesday, he said, "I think the biggest challenge we have is making sure we stay sharp."
The winter-like weather early last week wiped out practice on Tuesday, and the team had to work out indoors in the school gym on Monday and Wednesday.
Once they returned to the outdoors, Hill said, "We're just trying to get that game speed (back), that feel of playing at that pace that's going to be necessary for us to be successful."
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According to Xbox Live and Xbox 360 director of product management Aaron Greenberg, while issues inundated the early 360 production lines, things have since improved. "I can tell you the consoles we're making today have lower-heat chips and better cooling, and we're seeing fantastic quality in those consoles today," Greenberg said.
He said that the early problems were acknowledged, and Microsoft responded by introducing an extended three-year warranty for anyone who is faced with the infamous Red Ring of Death or E74 error. Greenberg continued by adding that with the strides taken by Microsoft, he feels like most of the problems are well behind them.
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i've wasted money and time on two 360 consoles and got red rings on both. i just can't trust the brand and have nothing more to waste on them. ps3 has won this fight. better luck next time microsoft.
Well I found my original 360 was alot noisier, both fans and DVD drive were louder than the tv until i turned it right up. It died a couple of weeks ago after 3 years and 2 months faithful service.
The new arcade model I have is a jasper. The fans are very close to being silent - my skyplus HD box makes more noise currently. The DVD drive is a definate improvement being quieter and the half gig internal storage and hdmi are a welcome addition.
I can honestly say after 3 years and 2 months I felt like I'd recieved a good upgrade for my 135quid for the new jasper. Of course I would have prefered it to be free but I would rather have a new one than a reconditioned unit.
Still no different...RROD just the same.....my friend, the same. They (M$) are just liars... their defective consoles needs to removed from the market, redesigned...go through some thorough tests ...then released.
Selling 31mil is nothing if we cant play our consoles with a peace of mind.
My less-than-two-years-old XBox 360 Elite went two-ring (thermal check, and NOT covered by warranty service) early this summer. Looks like I'll have to buy another 360 for christmas, probably not Elite again, though I will miss my HDMI port... I was told when I bought the Elite that it was specifically redesigned to avoid RROD issues. MS Sux!
So, remember if it breaks and it is out of warranty to just give more money to MS for another one. You will at least have a 50/50 chance of getting the best console on the market.
wow how much bullshit can one company shovel
loving my Jasper elite. Its extra quiet after installing games (something I always liked about the PS3 too) but I like more than enough of the games for 360 and there are several series I follow (admittedly, Halo is one of them). I must say I don't hate any of the consoles, I think I could easily have fun with any of them, I just prefer 360 overall. I say this because the entire web is saturated with "my console is God, yours is crap because X". At the end of the day, remember we could all be doing something more productive, like lending a hand in ts forums ; P
I'm a member of GTAF, 4ums for Rockstar Games/GTA.net. I commented there on two RRoD units I bought that I tried to repair, adjusting the heatsinks and using three different thermal pastes, the one I got some success with, about 3 weeks worth is OCZ's FREEZE, pretty good stuff. I would not advise money spent trying a repair, I got my working unit for 150 USD from local pawn shop, with a HDD for $30 in fact. Now I see reconditioned adapters at MicroCenter for $20 each! I paid almost $50 for a power BRICK!!
I bought a 360 elite about 2 years ago it died at the 14 month mark.. but to be fair I played it like there was no tommorow.. I mean I got hooked on it and I wasnt playing games that much since the ps2 days. It definatly got me back into console gaming. After it died however I decided not to buy a playstation 3 and decided to build a gaming rig that ran me about 2200.00 bucks after you include monitor and all peripherals. I got my 360 back in the mail but I havnt really touched it since mainly do to poor game selection in 2009 so far.. resident evil 5 sucked and prototype was ok but it didnt really get me. With all that said and after experiancing a real gaming machine I think consoles suck.. 30 fps.. partial v-sync.. you get screen tearing and slowdowns on games like gow2 so I will continue to play with the 360 only for exclusives like halo odst and maybe good local coop games because playing with friends over on a pc might be a bit tough with my set up. The next generation consoles hopefuly play at 60 fps.. screen tearing.. hiccups... slowdowns and rrod are not cool in my book. I highly recommend anyone who isnt familiar with pc hardware to get aquainted with it through google and try out a build for yourself its not hard at all.. especially these days. Not to mention games if optimized look awesome on a mid range to high end pc. Support pc gaming lol.
being a playstation owner since the first one was released , and my ps2 lasting 8 years , before buying my ps3 , never having a problem with any of them and then to hear from friends who bought the xbox when it first came out , one by one telling me , its got something called the red ring of death its beyond repair , this was 2 or 3 years ago , millions have got the red ring of death , you can't trust the xbox brand name , all my friends are now ps3 owners .
I don't have HD TV, (absolutely no use for Blew-ray) but, on a whim I traded my Xbox 1 in for the Halo 3 edition Xbox 360. Despite my TV's lack of uber definition the games look fantastic. And I've never had any RROD issues at all. I only wish my controllers batteries lasted longer. But they're rechargeable so, what ever. Lots of great games to play on Xbox 360, and my Wii doesn't see a whole lot of action any more. I'm a Happy Camper. Buy American!
You know warranties are a great thing and if you buy your consoles where they are offered (if they are not offered at all for you in your area then i feel bad for you all)
I bought my Xbox 360 at Best Buy got a RRoD just before my warranty ran out took it back and got a new one with the 2 games newer version with HDMI port ~60$ back and renewed my warranty
Honestly shelling out the extra 40$ that i did was well worth it then spending 200-400$USD to replace a console that died
Honestly I am on at least my 2nd or 3rd PS2 (since Jan 2001), don't own a PS3 yet and my Wii is running just fine
So yeah you all can argue microsoft sucks blah blah blah and what not but all in all ive heard it before but PS3 doesn't offer the games that I like to play and if you don't have the games I want then I am not interested....
Well that is my 2 cents heh
Are Xbox 360's that great that people put up with this sub-par product? I don't game but I just don't see the point in buying another...and another...etc. If something I bought broke and heard from others that they are all crappy would I buy another? Never!!! I would buy something else.
Are Xbox 360's that great that people put up with this sub-par product? I don't game but I just don't see the point in buying another...and another...etc. If something I bought broke and heard from others that they are all crappy would I buy another? Never!!! I would buy something else.
I totally agree microsoft should have a no quibble policy and exchange all red ringed consoles .
I will not bring myself to buy a 360... but I am ordering a new slim PS3 very soon
I've heard some real horror stories about some of my friends' 360 consoles, including many red rings of death and even some units burning halos in the disks. Of course, I still have friends that swear it's the best game console in existence but with the failure rate the way it is I want nothing to do with it. I have my 360 controller for my PC and a lot of great 360 games make great PC games too; they run better on PC anyways.
I really don't get it...why is all the Xbox 360 consoles and Xbox elite consoles are having the ring of red light after playing for some months? I bought my Xbox360 few months back, June 2009 to be precise, and the red light just flashed two days back..... i am frustrated and probably will never buy Microsoft game consoles in the future.
Doesn't Microsoft see all these? is it too hard to make a consoles that works for a little longer than just months? this will surely make Microsoft's share go way down in the market.......why isn't Microsoft doing anything about it? why are we as a customer getting ripped off?
I really don't get it...why is all the Xbox 360 consoles and Xbox elite consoles are having the ring of red light after playing for some months? I bought my Xbox360 few months back, June 2009 to be precise, and the red light just flashed two days back..... i am frustrated and probably will never buy Microsoft game consoles in the future.
Doesn't Microsoft see all these? is it too hard to make a consoles that works for a little longer than just months? this will surely make Microsoft's share go way down in the market.......why isn't Microsoft doing anything about it? why are we as a customer getting ripped off?
You buy this new or used? because if you bought it you then what can you expect from a used console that you have no idea what has been done to it
People need to learn to buy warranties if they are available in your area
I've never heard of getting a RRoD after a few months unless your letting it overheat and using it constantly. Was almost 2 years before i got my first RRoD and i use my 360 constantly
i had the e-74 error after 14 months , to be fair to MS it was collected , repaired and back to me within 7 days which is impressive . Break downs aside its a great console , there's just far more great games on the xbox than the PS3. I have the luxury of my flat mate owning a PS3 so i get to play both and i think they are both good .
I have a friend who's on his fourth or fifth 360 now. One time he got an xbox back and it RRoD less than a couple weeks later. Personally, I'd be fed up.
Making better quality consoles now doesn't make up the 54% of past console failures, frustration, time and money spent.
For my friend's sanity and health I PRAY his next xbox doesn't die on him.
I have a friend who's on his fourth or fifth 360 now. One time he got an xbox back and it RRoD less than a couple weeks later. Personally, I'd be fed up. And making better quality consoles now doesn't make up the 54% of past console failures, frustration, time and money spent.
For my friend's sanity and health I PRAY his next xbox doesn't die on him.
Anything with over a 25% failure rating is pretty bad... 54% is just sickening. That's basically having a 50/50 chance of your $300 game console going belly up. It's also like saying "well it might sh** the bed or it might not... but it probably will." PS3>360 any day.
i once had the choice between a PS3 & an Xbox360, had both in hands & even took a picture of that great moment. I ended buying a Big 20Gb PS3, in the beginning i was sad because even if there were some great exclusive titles (True Exclusives!), i didn't have enough money to get them all, while i saw a lot of my friends buying & modding their xboxes (i don't do into piracy!) ... well then they were nagging me about my choice.
but being in the hardware field part-time i had so many xbox360 in for check-out, so i got to play some games yet something was wrong, why so many console IN. @ first i thought because they were modded, yet it came out that NO. they i said to myself, like some other monitor brand that keeps coming it, it must be about the % of sales. the more you sell, the more to expect to fail @ some moment.
when i figured out later that most of the time, the same person who had one dead console would turn up with another unfortunate one that i started to see things differently. i was happy i made my choice!
it's not about the game, i'm sorry but i challenge anyone to find 10 great "TRUE EXCLUSIVE" titles for the Xbox360 in less than 20 seconds (being fair here) ... & by TRUE EXCLUSIVE, i mean not shared with the PC! & not to mention that Multi-platform games look better on one system or another, totally FALSE !!!
Xbox360 has so many great games (on my envy list as a PCist / PS3 Owner) but as most are shared with the PC, i'm happy with it (I'm waiting for Splinter cell conviction / Mass Effect 2, maybe Gears of War 2 (but not really my type so don't know))
PS3 has a 10% failure rate, i just hope i never fall into the unfortunate stats
& Nowadays with a price cut-down (the ONLY drawback SONY had before ...!!!) & a huge library of TRUE EXCLUSIVE along some shared with PC, i think this one is going where it should be.
It's just a matter of taste, you like Halo - go for Xbox, you want God of War, no choice it's the PS3. if you like Multis or some MS Exclusives, the best combo is a PS3 + PC
I just hope newer consoles are more stable, for if i get more money, i may consider get an Xbox360 too. for now, i'm sorry for those who had a PS3 with YLOD or Xbox360 with RROD, just hope the manufacturing companies have enough consideration about their customers, for i would go nuts if my PS3 would die on me while playing Uncharted 2 & worst if it would damage my future Heavy rain disc
I bought a 360 when they first came out. When the Elite came out, since I have a 52" tv, I bought it to gain the HDMI output and gave my old one to a friend. I also bought my brother a Pro last Christmas. All 3 units are still running fine with no issues, at least, so far. I've been extremely happy with my experiences with the 360 consoles. I may buy a PS3 slim to use as a blu-ray player but I really hate Sony products. My PSP was one of the biggest waste of money ever. And I hate the PS controllers and their cramp inducing size. If I could get a PS3 with Xbox controllers, that would be perfect.
heh weird says here that you dont own a xbox 360 and never have
Xbox 360 Elite - NO PROB - all the time !!!
Xbox 360 Elite - NO PROB - all the time !!!
well aren't microsoft just the best
in all honesty the xbox has better games overall and i have an arcade and just bought a 120gb for $60 on ebay and has lasted me 2 and a half years with only one failure. the only reason you'd get the rings is if you have NO LIFE and play all day or leave it in a enclosed area.. i asked why mine got RROD and it was because of an enclosed space.. so if you put it on a milk crate and clean the fans every few months then you shouldn't have a problem.. believe me i talked the the repairmen myself. you shouldn't have a problem!
I find the "Well behind us" line kinda weak. I just had our older family XBox360 repaired by MS for "only" $106 incl tax after it went belly up out of warranty (non-RROD error).
We have had it back in service for a bit over a month or so.... boom... RROD Error...
BACK IT GOES.... Good thing they give you a year warranty for your $106 fee.
Wow. If you are going to spend $300 or so dollars on a system, you should be smart like me and make a DIY 80mm PC cooling fan ($40). Was it worth it? Well let's just say I did an experiment with the fans with my 360. I left my 360 on for 3 whole days with GTA IV running on DVD(NOT on HDD) and to check the results I just felt how hot the game was because as everyone knows the main heating problem was the GPU, which was right underneath the DVD drive. (didn't want to open console due to warrenty) And the results, it felt like I just turned my 360 on for about 5 minutes. From June 5, 2008 to today my 'falcon' chip 360 is stiil going strong. Even though I plan to have my 360 red ring to get the new 250gb 360 (Best Buy warrenty gives my full refund on 360 including the tax)
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Day 4: Started early that day, because it was a 20 minute drive back to the park and I decided I wanted to see Curtis' Sugar Creek defenses before heading to the primary park. It was raining as I got out of my vehicle at the site located on a portion of the still 19th Century looking Wire Road, i.e. dirt and gravel. As background, since I keep referring to the Wire Road, I thought I would explain its history. Most probably know why the road is called the Wire or Telegraph Road but for those who may not, the telegraph wires were strung along the road from Jefferson City to Ft. Smith, Arkansas. The road approximated a trail made by the Osage Indians before the white man's arrival and ultimately parts of it were incorporated into the famous Route 66. The telegraph line evidently was never up on poles but the wire was wrapped around bushes, stakes and trees. The Butterfield Stage line used the Wire Road as the beginning of its transcontinental stage route. Just before the war from 1857 to 1861; a person, if they timed it right, could travel from Jefferson City, MO to Los Angeles or San Diego, California (approximately 2800 miles) in 25 days. The Sugar Creek Defense line is part of the Pea Ridge Park but is not part of the official tour, it should be. Nothing explains better than this site the whys and hows that caused the Pea Ridge Campaign to develop. It is south of the park Visitor's Center by about 4 miles and one must cross Highway 60 and head down the gravel Wire Road to get to it. The bleak day made it easy to think about the Federal troops who hastily dug a trench line on the crest of the embankment overlooking Sugar Creek, on several cold winter's days in early March 1862. The site is quite picturesque with the beautiful creek flowing through a gorge with high embankments on either side of the creek. No one in their right mind would attack down that gorge and up the other side against dug in forces. If I had to compare this site to another one on another Civil War park, it would be like attacking at Stedman's Approach at Vicksburg except the slope is a slippery rocky face. No wonder Van Dorn was planning such an audacious envelopment and why Curtis was contentedly facing south waiting for the Confederates arrival at his impregnable position. It is quite a climb to the top of the bluff overlooking Sugar Creek but there is ample evidence of the quickly dug entrenchments still there. After twenty minutes here, the Visitor Center was opening up, so I drove up the original Wire Road to the park. The Visitor Center movie is like the Wilson's Creek one, an updated and excellent film. The truly wonderful things they have in the Visitor's Center are Andy Thomas' paintings of the Trans-Mississippi battles including all of his Pea Ridge scenes. I've seen his paintings on the back of Civil War magazines and always thought they were pretty good but those pictures don't do the full sized paintings justice, they really are very good. When I actually viewed the battlefield, the NPS has incorporated the paintings into their interpretive markers at the sites where the Thomas' scenes took place, an excellent and attractive concept. The hour I was in the Visitor's Center it poured rain outside, but as I left, the skies were merely overcast. After my speedy trip through the tour road the day before, I had an idea of what was coming but I took it at the speed of my Harley friend from the day before and except for a local couple who were looking for sassafras and some fellow Texicans from Fort Worth, I had the place to myself. The first two stops are the supply and command centers for the Federal army. Pratt's Store, Curtis' headquarters is the first. My tour book indicated that the real site is unknown but that it was in the vicinity, probably off the park land and in the middle of Highway 60. There is a stone foundation at the site, implying it is Pratt's Store, but nothing identifying it as that. I wondered why it was there, if it is not historic. The site interprets Curtis' utter surprise that the Confederates were in his rear. History seems to give Curtis a pass on this surprise and I wondered why his cavalry was not engaged more properly to keep him from being surprised. But the mistakes of the victor seem to get overlooked for the most part. The second site, is the town of Leetown; it is half mile hike to the site. The NPS is clearing the site of trees and fencing off the area of the town but supposedly the only thing remaining is a gravestone of a child, I looked for it but it is off in the thick woods beyond the NPS fencing, so I was unable to find it. The town was the Federal supply depot and the site of most of the hospitals after the battle. The tour then takes you in reverse chronological order to the sites of what the park refers to as the Leetown Battlefield. It was on these fields that it dawned on me what Van Dorn should have done. As terrain background, recall Van Dorn's intention was to take his army all the way around the Federal Army and get on Curtis rear on the Wire Road in the vicinity of Elkhorn Tavern. But the army was famished, having difficulties moving on the rough roads that weren't the Wire Road and the ammunition wagons were not keeping up. In fact, his army was stringing out due to all of the above conditions. Price's MSG led the way and McCullough's Division was behind. The head of Price's men were approaching the jump off point, but McCullough's Division was still miles behind. So Van Dorn modified the plan on the fly and had McCullough advance to the battlefield via the Ford Road. This split his forces and caused the imposing Elkhorn or Pea Ridge to separate his two divisions. The original plan was way too ambitious and the modification violated several principles of warfare including mass, unity of command and simplicity. All Van Dorn had going for him now was the principle of surprise and as the Civil War showed time and time again, that principle, while very effective, is fleeting. I came to the conclusion that what Van Dorn should have done was send his entire army in mass down the Ford Road. The march is shorter and eventually enfiladed the rear of Curtis' Army, after rampaging through Curtis' command and supply area. A much more simple and effective attack, than coming down on Curtis' rear from the Elkhorn Tavern. So with that strategy interlude, back to the tour, the third stop takes you to the final battles of the so-called Leetown battlefield. The stop is at the Federal side of the final line. As you look toward the Confederate lines, on the left is Oberson's Field and to the right is Morgan's Woods. Beyond the Oberson's Field is the wood lot where McCullough and McIntosh were killed by skirmishers within a few minutes of each other. My tour book indicated the exact sites are unknown, although at one time the site of McCullough's death was known, until someone destroyed the marker on the site years ago. The tour book indicated McCullough was probably killed off the park land and across highway 72 that goes nearby. I noted with irony that McCullough had had a 26 year and one day reprieve from the death he almost had at the Alamo. The death of McCullough and McIntosh practically ended the fighting of the Leetown battle as the succeeding leadership apparently exerted none afterwards. For the most part, McCullough's Division remained inert with the exception of Hebert's Arkansans and Louisianans that ended the fighting on this part of the battlefield in the thick Morgan's Woods. McCullough was less than half a mile from the Federal supply depot when his attack stalled. A trail takes you back into Morgan's Woods and one may see how far Hebert got and it explains how he and his staff were almost captured in the melee in the woods that puts one easily in mind of the Wilderness in Virginia. The next stop is where the Leetown Battle began, where the Ford Road crossed between a feature call Round Top (sort of looks like the famous one too) and Pea Ridge. Here on the other side of the woods, where McCullough was killed, sat the Foster Farm. It was across the fields of this farm that McCullough cut loose his Texas and Indian Cavalry forces to drive the Federals from their initial positions around farm. It was in this charge that my Great-Great Uncle probably saw the elephant for the first time and I had to wonder if he was a witness to what many call the first atrocity of the Civil War; the scalping of dead and wounded Federals lying near the Foster home. While at this stop, the sun came out and all hints of rain were gone for the rest of my Pea Ridge stay. The next two stops are associated with Elkhorn Ridge or Mountain or Pea Ridge depending on which name you prefer. The first stop has an excellent view of the very rough Boston Mountains in the distance, through which Van Dorn advanced to the battlefield. Later that day I drove them and it is tough going in a 21st century vehicle through the winding mountain roads, let alone on foot or with mule drawn wagons. The stop on Pea Ridge itself is the east overlook and what a view it is. From a covered pavilion the wind just whipped up the Ridge and must have been blowing nearly 40 mph, it made it tough to read my tour book that described the Federal bombardment of the ridge on the second day of the battle. The only troops occupying this magnificent high ground were the men in Stand Waite's Indian regiment. The Federal artillery played hell with them too. From this vantage point one could see the entire battlefield, McCullough's positions near the Ford Road, Round Top and the Wire Road. You could not see Elkhorn Tavern and the Huntsville Road but on the second day of the battle the Federals were not there, but rather in full view of this splendid position. I'm sure Van Dorn and his men were exhausted after the first day but if he had gotten just a battery of artillery up here and more of his men, Curtis and his men would have been in for a rough March 8. The next stop was Elkhorn Tavern which I had seen the previous day but since I ran the last 1.5 miles of the historic trail, I decided to walk back to the point where the trail met the Huntsville Road so I could read and see the things I ran past the night before. Where the trail meets the Huntsville Road is where Pap Price's left pushed down the road on top of the plateau toward the tavern. Price's men pushed the Federals back to the tavern through the Clemens' Farm. It was in the fields of their farm that Pap Price was shot in the arm. The foundation of the farm is still there and the experiences of the family are described. Price outflanked the Federals in the woods on the edge of the Clemens' Field by attacking their left, going around the farmhouse. This turned the Federal postion and forced them back to the tavern at the junction of the Wire and Huntsville Roads. Across the tour road from the tavern are the only three monuments on the battlefield. All three were placed by the respective side's veterans organizations. The third and final monument was the most impressive and is a reconciliation monument put up jointly by the GAR and CVs. The next stop is a half a mile down the Wire Road form the tavern and it is where the first day ended and the second day began for the Confederates. On the left side of the tour road is described how the MSG's attack was stymied in the near dark by Federal artillery as they charged into the open field there. The loads of double canister ended the day's fighting. The Federal artillery withdrew in the dark and the MSG occupied the woodlot they vacated. The next day, an artillery barrage under the supervision of Franz Sigel pounded the Confederate line here until a general Federal advance followed two hours later and accompanied by a general Confederate retreat. If you go here, don't just stay by the road, walk west to the end of the fence line as a minimum. As you reach the end of the fence, look hard right and you will see Pea Ridge and what a formidable position it would have been had Van Dorn occupied it in force. To the left front you will see a small knoll in the middle of the Cox Farm field called Welfley's Knoll. It was from this knoll that most of the Federal artillery massed for the second day bombardment of the Confederate lines. I wish I had time to walk the quarter of a mile plus to the knoll, but I was running out of time. The final stop is close to Wefley Knoll but still a ways from it and discusses the role of the Federal artillery and in particular the story of Franz Sigel that day. Turns out it was probably his most triumphant day of the war and also his most embarrassing. He oversaw the placement and firing of artillery but at some point in the attack toward Elkhorn Tavern on the second day, when victory was already won, he heard a rumor that the army was surrounded again and he galloped past the tavern north on the Wire Road to try and evade capture. Curtis finally had to send someone to stop him and bring him back to the victorious army near Elkhorn Tavern. Next stop was Prairie Grove, as I drove through the Boston Mountains the rains really cut loose. It was still pouring rain as I pulled into the parking lot at the museum at Prairie Grove. Much of the battlefield is now taken over by the town of the same name, but much of the field on the Confederate right was preserved by the Confederate Veterans. not necessarily because of the battleground, but as a reunion ground. This park is operated by the state of Arkansas and I must say they have done a very good job. The museum is pretty simple with a dated but adequate introductory film. The lone lady running the museum is very friendly and helpful. Due to the now wet conditions and based on the fact my tour book told me I would not miss anything of historical significance, I reluctantly declined to do the one mile walking tour of the eastern battlefield. Now I will take this opportunity to provide my critique of the audio tours offered by Wilson's Creek, Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove. At the two National Parks, the CD is offered for sale in the gift shops for a standardly high price of $15. The Wilson's Creek one is 45 minutes and is pretty good. It talks to you more than just at the tour stops but does tell you to shut it off at times. It has some first hand accounts of the battle too. The Pea Ridge audio is the same $15 but is only 30 minutes long and except for one of two places only speaks to events at the tour stops, so you shut it off until you get to the tour stop. About 10 minutes of that CD is talk of flora and fauna. Now I'm not opposed to flora and fauna but that is not why I got the tour audio. So in reality you only get 20 minute of Civil War talk and no first hand accounts. Now to describe the best $4 I spent on the trip. The Prairie Grove audio is nearly an hour long and will play continuously on your auto tour and syncs up nicely if you drive the speed limit, if they don't have anything to say, they play nice homespun music in the style of Bobby Horton. It is chock full of eyewitness accounts too. During one large gap between two tour stops, they play the Prairie Grove song from Cathy Barton and Dave Para's two CDs on the music of the trans-Mississippi Civil War (these two albums were also the soundtrack for my trip and are great CDs if you don't have them). Since they talked over the intro of the song, they even had a final track of the entire song unblemished by talking. If you go to Prairie Grove, definitely get their audio, Wilson' Creek you might get too, but skip Pea Ridge-- just my opinion. The driving tour is a 14 stop tour, other than numbered signs, the park is not really interpreted with much signage, which makes the audio tour that much more important as the brochure is adequate and well-written but lacking in the details we Civil War aficionados crave. The first stop is across the street from the museum. This marks the center of the Confederate defensive positions on a very commanding ridge that overlooks, yet again, the Wire Road and the open fields it traversed. The position was selected by General Francis Shoup. To set the scene for the battle, Thomas Hindman the overall Confederate commander was trying to destroy the Federal forces in detail, starting with Herron's Division coming from Fayetteville and then he planned to turn on Blunt's Division to the west near Rhea's Mill. So with those objectives, it's a mystery why he took a defensive posture and waited for Herron, but Herron obliged. The first stop includes several monuments put up by the veterans when this was a reunion grounds, so it is not so relative to the battle. Also at the stop are several Civil War buildings that were moved to the park to preserve them, including the Morrow House which had been moved from several miles south of the park but it was important to the Prairie Grove and Pea Ridge Campaigns. The left front room of the house served as Hindman's and Price's and Van Dorn's headquarters just days before their respective campaigns. Later that evening I drove passed the original site for the home again located on an origianl part of the Wire Road. The walking tour of the east battlefield begins here also. The primary landmark on the east battlefield is the Borden House and orchard, which are both well-preserved. The fighting here is depicted in yet another one of Andy Thomas' great paintings and is easily the place where most of the casualties occurred, in Arkansas' bloodiest battle. Herron made two separate assaults on the ridge, attacking into the yard of the Borden House and its bloody apple orchard. On the far Confederate right along the fence of the orchard, the cavalry of my personal hero, Jo Shelby, helped drive the Federals back, along with Quantrill's band fighting, for probably there only time, as regular troops (although Quantrill was not with them at this battle). The tour moves down the ridge into the Borden cornfield where the Union attacks originated and where the first casualties fell. From there, it goes to the far right of Herron's position. As Herron's men lost the initiative and began preparing to face Confederate counterattacks at this place down the ridge from the museum, Blunt's Division signaled its arrival on the battlefield, by firing artillery at the Confederate's on the ridge. The last four stops of the tour are in the town itself. They take you to an overlook where you may see the field where the Confederates attacked the arriving Blunt but were repulsed and where Blunt set up his artillery to bombard the Confederate defenses. It also goes to the Morton House site; the extreme left of the Confederate line, and the Prairie Grove Baptist Church, where Hindman had his HQ and that served as a hospital after the battle. The current church was built after the war and the original log structure is gone. The rain was still pouring down as I headed off to Ft. Smith, Arkansas. For the last two nights of my trip, I decided to live it up at a very nice Bed and Breakfast in Ft. Smith called Beland Manor. To be Continued… Last edited on Wed Oct 15th, 2008 07:00 pm by David White |