Pulaski Arkansas Battery

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 here by opposing cannon shot, and one was wounded by a minie ball. Despite these casualties, Captain William E. Woodruff believed his battery had a very successful day of gunning, writing that its fire was directed where it could be used advantageously without injuring its own troops, sometimes at the opposing battery and at other times against enemy assaults on the hill to the northwest. The guns here today are aimed toward the site of the opposing batteries on Bloody Hill.

Battlefield, Missouri · United States