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During the American Civil War, Missouri was a hotly contested border state populated by both Union and Confederate sympathizers. It sent armies, generals, and supplies to both sides, maintained dual governments, and endured a bloody neighbor-against-neighbor intrastate war within the larger national war.
American Civil War Union-4,000, Confederacy- 5,000 337 United States vs. Confederate States Union victory Chalk Bluff: May 1–2, 1863 Dunklin County: American Civil War Union-120, Confederacy- 210 53 KIA, 104 WIA, 120 MIA, 53 POW United States vs. Confederate States Confederate pyrrhic victory: 3rd Boonville: October 11, 1863 Boonville ...
This is a list of regiments from Missouri that fought in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–1865). The list of Missouri Confederate Civil War units is shown separately. Long-Enlistment Infantry Regiments
April 29, 1863: Bloomfield; April 30, 1863: Coal Bluff, St. Francis River, April 30-May 1, 1863: Advance upon Little Rock; July 1-September 10, 1863: Moved from Wittsburg to Clarendon; August 1–8, 1863: Near Bayou Metoe; August 26, 1863: Bayou Meto (or Reed's Bridge) September 1–10, 1863: Bayou Fourche and capture of Little Rock
A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908. Hughes, John C. A Soldier's Dream of Home: The Civil War Letters of John C. Hughes to His Wife, Harriet (Fort Worth, TX: Arcadia-Clark), 1996. ISBN 0-9619-3372-0; Attribution. This article contains text from a text now in the public domain: Dyer, Frederick H. (1908).
Missouri in the American Civil War was divided, with the southern and central portion of the state pro-Confederacy, and most of the rest pro-Union. By the end of the Civil War, Missouri had supplied nearly 110,000 troops to the Union and at least 40,000 troops for the Confederate Army with additional bands of pro–Confederate guerrillas. [4]
The 11th Missouri Infantry Regiment was organized at Jefferson Barracks at St. Louis, Missouri, and mustered in for three years on August 6, 1861. [2] In its early history, the regiment was known as the "Missouri Rifles". [1] Moved to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, August 16, 1861. Attached to Military District of Cairo, Ill., Dept. of Missouri, to ...
The 3rd Missouri Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It arose from a group of volunteers who were active from April to September 1861.