{"id":2637,"slug":"prairie-grove-battlefield-prairie-grove-arkansas","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Prairie Grove is the draw — the 'tactical' that's the day's result, the 'strategic' that's the war's win. The '14 percent' is the bled — the 'both sides' that's the cost's share, the 'Fredericksburg less' that's the scale's shock. The 'diverse' is the mixed — the 'Home Guard' that's the tribes' units, the 'Black Kansas' that's the Union's spread.","The 'church named' is the marked — the 'hospital' that's the building's use, the 'town later' that's the settlement's lag. The 'reunions met' is the gathered — the '1908' that's the park's start, the 'last '38' that's the veterans' end. Prairie Grove is the kept — the 'ridge held' that's the South's stand, the 'valley crossed' that's the North's charge.","The file keeps Prairie Grove: the drawn battle, the bled percent, the mixed army, and the kept ridge.","Prairie Grove is the archive's Arkansas file — the draw that decided who held the west."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Prairie Grove is the archive's Arkansas file — the tactical draw that won the war's west.","A prairie keeps its line — the file's suggestion being that Grove's hold is the deadlocked: the '14%' that's the cost's share, the 'diverse' that's the army's mix, and the 'reunions' that's the memory's form."]}],"name":"Prairie Grove Battlefield","aliases":[],"type":"BATTLEFIELD","type_label":"Battlefield","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","CIVIL_WAR"],"groups":["dark-history","legends"],"desc":"December 7, 1862—the last major battle in northwest Arkansas.","full_desc":"A battlefield in Prairie Grove, Arkansas, Prairie Grove Battlefield is filed here for what the record attaches to it. December 7, 1862—the last major battle in northwest Arkansas. The archive files it under the Civil War, dark history and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The ground is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Prairie Grove","county":null,"state":"Arkansas","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":35.986113,"lon":-94.303383,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":"Historic site","research_notes":"AR batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":2182,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures in the Borden orchard. The fort's documented violence is the soil the reports grow in — Prairie Grove, Arkansas keeps both on file. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. The account appears in 'Prairie Grove'. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Prairie Grove","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Prairie_Grove","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The December 7, 1862 battle is documented; the orchard survives. Prairie Grove Battlefield's service record is documented — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath the garrison lore. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. 'Prairie Grove' documents the entry. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":"1862-12-07","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Prairie Grove","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Prairie_Grove","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Reported figures in the Borden orchard. Old military ground in Prairie Grove, Arkansas carries its dead the way it carries its walls — permanently. It circulates as local folklore — the kind communities keep rather than verify. The report is preserved in sources like 'Prairie Grove'. The tale is the site's other archive — oral, embroidered, and outlasting the documents.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Prairie Grove","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Prairie_Grove","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Battlefield site; interpretive trails or markers are typically available. Check the managing agency for hours.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Prairie Grove","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Prairie_Grove","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}