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The heaviest casualties were around the Archibald Borden house and orchard. The first house was burned the day after the battle. Mr. Borden built this house on the site of the original in 1872. Charles W. Walker of the 34th Arkansas Infantry recalled that the once peaceful valley, now a field of carnage, was swept with shot, shell, grape, and canister, and that the Borden orchard was the storm center around which the battle raged furiously as repeated charges by boys in blue across the valley and up the hill to Borden's house were repulsed by the boys in gray.
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Prairie Grove, Arkansas · United States
