Generals Blunt and Herron

Two men who arrived by different roads. James Blunt, born in Maine in 1826, was a physician who joined the Free State fight in Kansas and rose to major general; at Honey Springs in 1863 the First Kansas Colored Infantry fought under him. Francis Herron, born in Pittsburgh in 1837, was 25 at Prairie Grove, was chosen with McPherson and Logan to lead the procession into Vicksburg, and received the Medal of Honor for Pea Ridge. In 1873 Blunt was accused of conspiring to defraud the government and the Cherokees. Herron became a New Orleans marshal.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park — steps away
  The December 7, 1862 battlefield where about 2,700 fell and Hindman withdrew in the night, with the Borden orchard, Hindman Hall's free museum, and walking and driving tours.
• Devil's Den State Park — 14 mi
  A Civilian Conservation Corps park begun in October 1933 in the Lee Creek valley, with log-and-stone cabins, a 1937 stone dam, about sixty crevice caves and a 15-mile trail.
• Hobbs State Park-Conservation Area — 30 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.

More markers nearby

• The Borden House — 0.3 mi
• Herron's Attack — 0.3 mi
• The Archibald Borden House — 0.3 mi
• Washington County Cane Hill College — 7.0 mi