Nicholas Bartlett Pearce (better known as N. Bart Pearce, 1828 to 1894) was a brigadier general in the Arkansas Militia who allied his forces with those of Confederate Brigadier General Benjamin McCulloch and Missouri State Guard Major General Sterling Price to meet the Union forces under General Nathaniel Lyon at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek on 10 August 1861 in Missouri.
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