Cross Hollows

The winter camp was chosen for its springs, forage and two nearby mills, and it was abandoned in a day. Confederate soldiers built log, board and turf huts here, and Peter Van Winkle's mill supplied boards for sixteen cabins finished December 11, 1861. When Union troops under Samuel Curtis approached in February 1862, Gen. Benjamin McCulloch judged the camp indefensible and ordered it abandoned over Sterling Price's objections. The Sixth Texas Cavalry burned many cabins so Curtis could not use them. Curtis still stationed two divisions here until March 5, then pulled back toward Pea Ridge.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Walmart Museum — 8.2 mi
  Sam Walton's 1950 variety store on the Bentonville square, now a free museum with his 1979 pickup, a recreated office, the 1945 Newport store door and a 1950s-style soda counter.
• Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art — 8.5 mi
  A 2011 Moshe Safdie building on 120 acres of Ozark forest in Bentonville, with free admission, six trails, two ponds, a spring, an arboretum and a relocated Frank Lloyd Wright house.
• Hobbs State Park-Conservation Area — 9.9 mi
  Arkansas's largest state park, about 12,000 acres on Beaver Lake, with the Van Winkle mill site, a graveyard of enslaved people, 54 miles of trail and regulated hunting.
• Pea Ridge National Military Park — 12 mi
  Where Union troops held the March 1862 Civil War battle that kept Missouri in the Union, with Elkhorn Tavern, a Cherokee Trail of Tears road and a signed tour route.

More markers nearby

• Rev. James Ingram — 3.5 mi
• Camp Halleck at Osage Springs — 4.4 mi
• Regular Baptist Church of Shiloh — 6.6 mi
• Holcomb's Spring in the Civil War — 6.6 mi