Haguewood Prairie or Moffets station near Paris on the Military Road. I think both are the same location and our just outside present day Paris
09 27 `863 Skirmish at Moffat's Station, Franklin County, AR, with Col. Joseph O. Shelby's Raiding Confederates
MOFFAT’S STATION, ARKANSAS
27 September 1863
(Shelby’s Arkansas & Missouri Raid)
OR-Series I, Volume XXII, Chapter XXXIV, Pg 671
Union Forces
Detachment, 1st Arkansas Cavalry Regiment
Confederate Forces
BRIGADIER GENERAL JOSEPH ORVILLE SHELBY
Advance --- Captain W. W. Thorp
Gordon’s Regiment --- Colonel G. P. Gordon
Shanks’ Regiment --- Colonel David Shanks
Hunter’s Regiment --- Colonel d. C. Hunter
Coffee’s Regiment --- Colonel J. T. coffee
Hooper’s Regiment --- Colonel J. C. Hooper
Elliott’s Cavalry Battalion
1 Section Artillery --- Lieutenant Daniel Harris
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O.R.-- SERIES I--VOLUME XXII/1 [S# 32]
SEPTEMBER 22--OCTOBER 26, 1863.--Shelby's Raid in Arkansas and Missouri.
No. 24.--Reports of Col. Joseph O. Shelby,
Fifth Missouri Cavalry (Confederate), commanding expedition, of operations September 22-November 3.
p.671
My advance on the 27th, always led by the daring and dashing [W. W.] Thorp, skirmished for miles with these Federal outlaws and jayhawkers, always killing or scattering them, when suddenly he ran directly upon some 200 of the First Arkansas Infantry; charged them furiously, but they, gaining the cover of heavy timber, forced Thorp back from range. I immediately ordered two regiments to dismount, who skirmished with them until [G. P.] Gordon and [David] Shanks got on either flank, when a simultaneous charge scattered them like chaff, and our rough riders rode them down like stubble to the lava tide. The enemy's loss was about 10 killed, 20 wounded, and 50 prisoners. This fight occurred 12 miles from the Arkansas River,
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A Guide-Index to the Official Records Of The Union And Confederate Armies
Volume V, Trans-Mississippi And Pacific Coast Theaters of Operations 1861-65
Section M--Comprehensive Index Of Recognized Military Operations--ARKANSAS
Moffat's Station, Franklin County, not found in atlas or otherwise definitely located (in the vicinity of Magazine Mountain, also not found in atlas, but located immediately SE of Short Mountain Creek, 159:A/B-12)
-----skirmish at, Sept. 27, 1863 (Sheiby's raid in Arkansas and Missouri), 32:Ev621, In1011 (Shelby's raid, which covers). See specifically 32:671. Cp. Moore, 7:56 (diary of events). NOTE: The geographical basis for this entry appears to have been derived from the reference in Moore. A fuller account of the Union participation is found in the Report of The Adjutant General of Arkansas for the Period of the Late Rebellion (Washington, D.C.:1867), p. 203:"In September 1863, it became known at Fort Smith that several hundred [Union] men ... had gathered together from the surrounding country, upon and near the Magazine mountain, whither they had been compelled to flee for security, and though generally having arms of their own, were much in need of ammunition. To relieve them, Captain William C. Parker, of the 1st Arkansas infantry was directed to proceed with sixty men, to their rendezvous; which he did, accomplishing the object for which he was sent. On his return, while crossing Haguewood prairie, in Franklin county, he was suddenly. confronted by the rebel General Shelby's command then moving northward on his well-known raiding expedition into Missouri. A stubborn fight ensued, Captain Parker slowly falling back until he reached the timber, where the unequal contest was still carried on, until, finding himself nearly surrounded, he directed his men to escape as best they could. In this encounter he lost twenty-two men killed and taken prisoners, but killing and wounding nearly the same number of the enemy."
See:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~arsebast/military/Civilwar/union/1starkinf.html
The action known as the Haguewood Fight took place in September, 1863, at a point one-half mile east of the present town of Paris. On this occasion Company H, of the First Arkansas (Federal) Infantry, commanded by Capt. Parker, was escorting a wagon train returning from Dardanelle to Fort Smith, from which place it had previously gone to Dardanelle with a load of supplies for the Federal troops at that port. It was attacked by Joe Shelby with his regiment of Confederate Cavalry. Company H of the First Arkansas was largely composed of men whose homes were in the immediate vicinity of the place where the fight occurred, and a number of them had left the camp of the train and escort to visit their homes, and were absent when the fight occurred. Many of the company engaged in the action had previously been prisoners of war in the hands of the Confederacy, and, knowing the hardships of prison life, they fought with unusual desperation, secreting themselves behind the wagons as best they could. Although fighting against great odds, they held the enemy at bay for nearly two hours, and then were completely routed. Two Federal soldiers, B. F. [p.333] Wilkins, father of Hon. J. H. Wilkins, now of Paris, whose home was only about four miles from the scene of action, and –– Hawkins, were killed; others, together with a few wounded, were captured, and others escaped. Several Confederates were killed and wounded, their number not now being known. The train of wagons, of course, was captured.
http://www.couchgenweb.com/arkansas/logan/biog1.htm