To further cloud the issue is this finding in WMHC manuscripts that describe Battle Hollow of Ripley County. NOTE that in 1945 at least the locals around Ripley County refer to Erich Pape's skirmish with the 15th Cav that occurred in 1864 as part of Price's Raid at Ponder's Mill or "Battle Hollow". This clearly would indicate that "Battle Hollow" historicaly is not the same location as Pulliam's Farm!

see http://whmc.umsystem.edu/exhibits/ramsay/ramsay_ripley.html

"Place name: Battle Hollow
Description: A valley two and a half miles southwest of Ponder. According to a local informant, it took its name from a considerable skirmish fought there between Captain Reeve's Confederate force and the Union soldiers. The engagement referred to was doubtless the one commonly known as the Ponder's Mill battle, fought on September 20, 1864. It was the opening encounter of Price's famous Missouri Expedition of August 29 to Secember 2, 1864, and one of the most notable of Confederate successes on that last ill- fated effort of the Southern arms in the state. According to Wiley Britton's history, the raid began with the entrance into Missouri of the Confederate column under General Joseph Shelby. Near Ponder's Mill the Confederates came upon and surrounded a detachment of eighty men under Lieutenant Erich Pape. A full account is given in the official records compiled in THE WAR OF THE REBELLION, from which it appears that the skirmish took place on Little Black River, and that all but ten of the Union forces were either captured or killed. There is no mention in either of these authorities of the Southern officer named Reeves in connection with this particular engagement, but he is doubtless to be identified with the well known Colonel Timothy Reeves, for whom see under Reeves Station in Butler County. Colonel (not Captain) Reeves may well have been in command of that part of the confederate forces immediately engaged at Ponder's Mill. (Wm. S. Doherty; Wiley Britton, THE CIVIL WAR ON THE BORDER (1904) II.390; THE WAR OF THE REBELLION: A COMPILATION OF THE OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE ARMIES (1901 Series 1, Vol. xii, Part 1, p. 454)
Source: Pottenger, Cora Ann. "Place Names Of Five Southern Border Counties Of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1945"

Place name: Ponder's Mill
Description: Doubtless another and later name for Murdock Mill, which see. Pleasant John Ponder married into the Murdock family and later owned the mill. See Battle Hollow, Ponder, Ponder Cemetery, and Ponder Church. (W.D. Randel)
Source: Pottenger, Cora Ann. "Place Names Of Five Southern Border Counties Of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1945

John R.