The Archibald Borden House

The fight around the Borden house is easiest to follow through one captured battery. Captain William Blocher's Arkansas Battery stood near the house, and the 20th Wisconsin and 19th Iowa crossed the valley fields and took the guns before a Confederate counterattack drove them back. Those two regiments were among the hardest hit of the day, each losing about half its men. The 37th Illinois and 26th Indiana then went up the hill into the apple orchard, outnumbered, and fell back to a fence line in the valley.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park — 0.4 mi
  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 — 15 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 — 29 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

• Herron's Attack — steps away
• The Borden House — steps away
• Generals Blunt and Herron — 0.3 mi
• Washington County Cane Hill College — 7.3 mi