There really....

....were no winners, in the U S Civil War,
only battles lost or won, it's what they fought for;
in the Battle of Pea Ridge, in Northwest Arkansas,
the Union won again, Missouri stayed of course.

The canons were booming, someone led a charge,
others fought back, the battles loomed large;
hold onto Missouri, was the battle cry,
the Union held fast, it was do or die.

The old Elkhorn Tavern saw it all,
the battle, the wounded, and the dead fall,
it stands now as a sign, that peace is at hand,
and to honor the Confederate and Union soldiers, that fought on this land.

Now the fields are empty, some hundred-forty-eight years hence,
only the battle lines outlined along a fence;
so we are left to honor, those who gave all,
and those who helped the wounded, and those that fall.