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Military Park Celebrates Pea Ridge Battle

Posted: March 7, 2010 at 6:36 a.m.

David Frank Dempsey
Members of the Northwest Arkansas Historical Association fire a canon Saturday near Elk Horn Tavern at Pea Ridge National Military Park.

The Pea Ridge National Military Park was transformed Saturday when groups of Union and Confederate soldiers returned to the site of one of the largest Civil War battles west of the Mississippi River.

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