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Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas.

By: Charles W. Boatright

A Visit to Bentonville, Arkansas, to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

When we go to our farm in Nixa, Missouri, we paid a visit down south to Bentonville, Springdale, and to Fayetteville to visit the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. This area is where the majority of my family settled in the late 1700’s from North Carolina.

We went to tour a Museum that was founded by Alice Walton, a daughter of Helen and Sam Walton, founder of the Walmart and Sam’s Club Corporations, to view the the Colonies to the Civil War Art Exhibit. One of my favorite area of history in American History is the Revolutionary and Civil Wars and the decade leading up to and during World War Two.

I also included in this article an interesting piece of Civil War history about the Huntsville Massacre that took place on January 10, 1863 just north of Huntsville, Arkansas. This was an incident that involved a piece of my family history that is tied to the Civil War. This was indirectly tied to the Battle of Pea Ridge Battle in March of 1862.

The Crystal Bridge Museum of American Art

But if you travel to the Bentonville, Springdale, and the Fayetteville area, you have to make plans to visit the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. This well be an educational opportunity for the entire family. The Museum exhibits has some of the most well-known artwork and artists.

On our last trip to Nixa, MO, we made it down to visit the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, where we saw art exhibit entitled From the Colonies to the Civil War. This is like experiencing American History through the eyes of those that actually lived during this era or researched this era. Museums are great places to take children to get them interested and involved in reading about history and the importance of History. History is too important to us, just to leave it in the archives or on the shelves.

History helps us to improve our current events, as well as to shape and improve our future. We find that the current issues that we deal with today we have dealt with at sometime in the past, and we get to see the cause and effect, without making the same mistakes now and in the future.

The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has both indoors and outdoors activities for the entire family, with walking trails and educational programs. This is a must-see experience and an adventure. Below is the vicinity map to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art located in Bentonville, Arkansas.

The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Vicinity Map in Bentonville, Arkansas.

Boatright Connection to The Huntsville Massacre

Huntsville, Arkansas is 28 miles east of Fayetteville, Arkansas off US Hwy 412.

The following article From the (Encyclopedia of Arkansas) entitled The Huntsville Massacre

Following the Battle of Prairie Grove, General Francis Herron was ordered to take his 5,000 troops northeast to the Mississippi River to join General Ulysses S. Grant on his push toward Vicksburg, Mississippi. This trek took Herron and his troops through Madison County via Huntsville.

Upon arrival, it was reported that the Murphy daughters were still being harassed by the locals to the point of having their personal belongings taken from them. Within days, several citizens were arrested and held for reasons not entirely clear.

In the early morning hours of January 10, 1863, nine men that wrer arrested were taken out for execution by members of Company G of the Eighth Missouri Union Cavalry, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Elias Briggs Baldwin.

Those executed included Chesley H. Boatright, a blacksmith, former county treasurer, deacon of the Huntsville Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and prominent Mason; William Martin Berry, a prominent member of Odeon Masonic Lodge and son-in-law of Isaac Murphy; Hugh Samuel Berry, son of the aforementioned William M. Berry and captain in the Confederate army, home on leave.

John William Moody, nephew-in-law to Chesley H. Boatright and a deputy U.S. marshal and farmer; Confederate army captain Askin Hughes; John Hughes; Watson P. Stevens, a cousin of the Berry; Robert Coleman Young, a Baptist minister; and Bill Parks. One of the nine, Parks, survived gave accounts of the massacre and left for Mississippi after he had recuperated.

Word of the massacre spread quickly among the Union troops, and within weeks Lt. Col. Baldwin was arrested and charged with “violation of the 6th Article of War for the murder of prisoners of war.” He was transported to Springfield, Missouri, where he was to be held pending a trial before a military commission. Many of the requested witnesses were either too ill to attend or on active duty and did not attend the trial. Due to the lack of witnesses, charges against Baldwin were dropped, and he was discharged.

The execution had a profound effect on the area and contributed to the closing of two colleges in Huntsville. Isaac Murphy was the head of the Masonic-sponsored college, and his daughters and wife ran the female seminary.

As both were sponsored by the Masonic fraternity, and as several prominent Masons were executed, the lodge closed the school. The Masons no doubt felt that Murphy and Dr. James Johnson (also a prominent Mason) had a hand in the arrest of those executed. No connection between those executed and the ambush of the Union military escort was ever established.

For additional information:
Hatfield, Kevin. “The Huntsville Massacre—The Civil War Forever Changes a Community.” Madison County Musings 25 (Winter 2006): 174–192.

“The Huntsville Massacre.” Huntsville Lodge No. 364. http://www.huntsville364.org/Huntsville%20Massacre.html (accessed October 16, 2007).

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