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The First Battle of Springfield was a battle of the American Civil War that took place on October 25, 1861, near Springfield, Missouri. Following the Battle of Wilson's Creek , the Missouri State Guard , a pro- Confederate militia organization, drove north and defeated a Federal (Union) force in the Siege of Lexington .
Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park became the 388th unit of the United States National Park Service when it was authorized on December 19, 2002. The National Historical Park was created to protect several historically significant locations in the Shenandoah Valley of Northern Virginia, notably the site of the American Civil War Battle of Cedar Creek and the Belle Grove ...
The official area of the park was expanded by 615 acres in 2004 in accordance with Public Law 108-394, [13] and an additional 60 acres were added in 2018 after the land was purchased by the American Battlefield Trust, formerly known as The Civil War Trust. [14] The park is located near Republic, Missouri, which is southwest of Springfield in ...
Civil War Times Illustrated. XLIV (5). ISSN 0009-8094. OCLC 1554811. Moore, John C. (1899). "Missouri in the Civil War". Confederate Military History. Vol. IX. OCLC 25038789. Piston, William Garrett; Hatcher, Richard (2000). Wilson's Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It. University of North Carolina Press.
American Civil War Union-250, Confederacy-350 19 United States vs. Confederate States Union victory Clark's Mill: November 7, 1862 Douglas County: American Civil War Union-113, Confederacy-1,000 113 United States vs. Confederate States Confederate victory 2nd Springfield: January 8, 1863 Springfield: American Civil War Union-2,099, Confederacy ...
"Missouri Railroads During the Civil War and Reconstruction." Missouri Historical Review 35#2 (1941) pp. 188–206; Fluker, Amy Laurel. Commonwealth of Compromise: Civil War Commemoration in Missouri (U of Missouri Press, 2020) online review; Geiger, Mark W. Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861–1865.
The Second Battle of Springfield took place during the American Civil War on January 8, 1863, in Springfield, Missouri. It is sometimes known as The Battle of Springfield. (The First Battle of Springfield was fought on October 25, 1861, and there was also the better-known Battle of Wilson's Creek, fought nearby on August 10, 1861.) Fighting was ...
Battles of the American Civil War were fought between April 12, 1861, and May 12–13, 1865 in 19 states, mostly Confederate (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia [A]), the District of Columbia, and six territories (Arizona ...