Recently, the links between the Kansas-Missouri border wars and northwest Arkansas came crashing together as several anniversaries came and will come to mark significant events and individuals. Thomas Warren, a Quantrill partisan from Lafayette County, Missouri and is buried in the Rogers Cemetery, Rogers, Benton County, Arkansas, participated in the Lawrence raid and fight at Centralia, Missouri as well as several raids and fights with Dave Poole.

Stinson Stearns, buried at the Stearns Cemetery, Washington County, Arkansas, was completely wiped out during Jim Lane's raid on Osceola, Missouri in September of 1861.

Duncan Johnson, buried at Shady Grove Cemetery in Berryville, Carroll County, Arkansas, was a member of the 9th Kansas Cavalry, Coleman's Company D, and took part in what is known as the Benjamin Potter massacre at Lone Jack, Missouri in September of 1863.

Henry Keatly, buried in the Decatur Cemetery, Decatur, Benton County, Arkansas, was a member of the First Missouri Engineers and lost FIVE fellow soldiers at Bill Anderson's attack on Centralia, Missouri on Sept. 27, 1864.

Samuel Ewing Hays, buried at the Eureka Springs I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Eureka Springs, Carroll County, Arkansas, was recruited by Captain John Jarrette and took part in the fight at Baxter Springs, Kansas on October 6, 1863.

These and other newly discovered individuals have rewritten northwest Arkansas' Civil War history and has exploded the history of Prairie Grove being the strongest link to Quantrill's guerrillas. Please go to http://qscrfarm.blogspot.com and tie your horse up to a post at the Purdee Farm! Read about the new individuals that bring a new chapter to Arkansas and it's link to the Kansas-Missouri border wars!