January 13, 2010

On March 7, 1862, Colonel Eugene Asa Carr led a cavalry brigade in the Battle of Pea Ridge in northwest Arkansas. For his conduct under fire, he was awarded the nation’s highest military honor, the Congressional Medal of Honor. The official citation stated that Carr had “directed the deployment of his command and held his ground, under a brisk fire of shot and shell in which he was several times wounded.” By war’s end, Carr had reached the rank of major general.