At Elkhorn Tavern (Pea Ridge), Arkansas, on March 7-8, 1862, Texas soldiers served in the Confederate attack. In Van Dorn’s attack of March 7, Texas units under Brig. Gen. Ben McCulloch assaulted the Union right center: 3rd Texas Cavalry (South Kansas - Texas Regt.) under Col. Elkanah Greer and Lt. Col. Walter P. Lane, Capt. O.G. Welch’s Squadron attached to the 3rd Texas Cavalry, 6th Texas Cavalry under Col. B.W. Stone, Young’s (11th) Texas Cavalry under Lt. Col. James J. Diamond, Sims’ (9th) Texas Cavalry under Col. William Sims and Lt. Col. William Quayle, and Whitfield’s (4th) Texas Cavalry Battalion under Maj. John W. Whitfield. The Texas unit supporting Maj. Gen. Sterling Price’s flank attack on the Union extreme left and rear was Good’s Battery under Capt. J.J. Good. Brig. Gen. Ben McCulloch of Texas was killed in the action, and Van Dorn declared, “A bolder soldier never died for his country.”