Pulaski Arkansas Battery
Wilson's Creek
From this position the four cannon of the Pulaski Arkansas Battery supported Confederate infantry during the Battle of Wilson's Creek. Two artillerists were killed by opposing cannon shot here, and one was wounded by a minie ball.
Despite the casualties, Captain William E. Woodruff believed his battery had a very successful day of gunning. Woodruff wrote, "Our fire was ... directed where it could be advantageously used without injury to our own troops, sometimes at the opposing battery, at others against the assaults of the enemy on the hill to the northwest..."
The guns in place here today are aimed toward the site of the opposing batteries on "Bloody Hill."
Marker can be reached from Tour Road, on the right when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
