(Another) Crooked Creek

As divisions that would eventually form Gowan's and Stanley's Corps were fighting in WIA2, there was a parallel tactical engagement at Crooked Creek involving Haggerty's, Crowell's, Piatt's (Wingert's) and Nagle's (Bradley's) Divisions.  The battle was inconclusive and the two sides broke off the engagement until the "Crooked Creek Divisions" met again in WIA3 and THE OZARKS CAMPAIGN.  In fact, the "Crooked Creek Divisions" engaged each other twice during THE OZARKS CAMPAIGN, at Tomahawk and Sylamore Bottom. (As a note, each army had three divisions in the WIA2 Crooked Creek, but one division each was broken up during re-organization for WIA3.)

 

Crooked Creek will appear in the revised WIA5 campaign theatre, but it is not the same Crooked Creek as the WIA2 battlefield, which was further south. Crooked Creek runs through Yellville and the town of Crooked Creek will appear in WIA5, west of Yellville. The former Crooked Creek township was located in what in now Boone County Arkansas, but was part of Carroll Country during the war.