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| Contents | |
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| Preface | |
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| Winter Campaign | |
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| Price's Running Stand | |
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| The Hunter and the Hunted | |
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| Rush to Glory | |
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| Death of a Texan | |
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| Battle in the Brush | |
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| A Battle Half Won | |
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| Clash in Cross Timber Hollow | |
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| Perseverance beside a Tavern | |
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| High Tide at Elkhorn | |
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| Soften the Heart | |
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| Thunder in the Ozarks | |
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| Victory and Defeat | |
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| The Vulture and the Wolf | |
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| Marching through Arkansas Conclusion. A Military Analysis of Pea Ridge Appendix | |
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| The Legacy of Pea Ridge Appendix | |
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| Order of Battle | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| Maps | |
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| Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas | |
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| Springfield to Little Sugar Creek | |
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| Northwestern Arkansas | |
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| Bentonville: McIntosh Attempts to Intercept Sigel | |
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| Pea Ridge: Midday, March 7 | |
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| Leetown: Osterhaus Engages McCulloch on Foster's Farm | |
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| Leetown: McCulloch and McIntosh Are Killed | |
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| Leetown: H�bert Advances against Davis | |
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| Leetown: H�bert Breaches the Federal Line | |
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| Leetown: The Federals Counterattack and the Confederates Withdraw | |
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| Elkhorn Tavern: Van Dorn and Carr Deploy | |
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| Elkhorn Tavern: Vandever Attacks Slack | |
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| Elkhorn Tavern: Carr Shortens His Line as Van Dorn Prepares to Attack | |
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| Elkhorn Tavern: Van Dorn Attacks and Carr Falls Back across Ruddick's Field | |
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| Pea Ridge: Night of March 7-8 | |
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| Elkhorn Tavern: 9:00 A.M., March 8 | |
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| Elkhorn Tavern: 10:00 A.M., March 8 | |
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| March of the Army of the Southwest, February-July 1862 | |
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| Illustrations Samuel Ryan Curtis Franz Sigel Sterling | |
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| Price Benjamin McCulloch Earl Van Dorn Albert Pike Elkhorn | |
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| aTvern Telegraph Road Alexander Asboth | |
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| The northern bluff of Little Sugar Creek, from Telegraph | |
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| Road near the site of Trott's store Remains of trenches the Federals constructed atop the northern bluff of Little Sugar | |
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| Creek Grenville M. Dodge | |
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| Foster's farm, looking northeast from the approximate location of Elbert's battery | |
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| Nicholas Greusel Louis H�ebert | |
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| Morgan's woods, east of Leetown Road Julius | |
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| White Oberson's field, looking northwest from the site of Davidson's battery | |
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| Tanyard Ravine, looking northward down the slope that forms the head of this ravine | |
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| Huntsville Road, looking west toward | |
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| Elkhorn Tavern, with the head of Tanyard Ravine to its rear and the eastern extremity of Big | |
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| Mountain in the background Hunt Wilson's painting of Guibor's battery in action against | |
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| Carr's beleaguered Federals on the evening of March 7 | |
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| Artillery pieces mark the location of Guibor's battery in front of Elkhorn Tavern on the evening of March 7 | |
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| Clemon's field, looking east from Dodge's position Hunt Wilson's painting of Pratt's store on the morning of March 8 | |
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| An Artillery piece marking the location of Welfley's battery atop Welfley's Knoll | |
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| Welfley's Knoll, looking west from Telegraph Road across Ruddick's field Hunt Wilson's painting of the Confederate army just before it began to retreat from the battlefield on March 8 | |
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| Sandstone columns on the west face of the rocky promontory on Big Mountain | |
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| The battlefield of March 8, looking south from the rocky promontory on Big Mountain | |
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| The battlefield of March 8, looking southwest from the rocky promontory on Big Mountain | |
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| The battlefield of March 8, looking west from the rocky promontory on Big Mountain | |
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| Cyrus Bussey Frederick Steele "Pioneers from Carr's Division, May 21, 1862," | |
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| "Elkhorn Tavern, Battle Ground of Pea Ridge, Ark.," | |
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| The 37th Illinois battling H�bert's brigade in Morgan's woods, March 7, 1862 | |