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The Battle of Baxter Springs, more commonly known as the Baxter Springs Massacre, was a minor battle of the American Civil War fought on October 6, 1863, near the present-day town of Baxter Springs, Kansas. In late 1863, Quantrill's Raiders, a large band of pro-Confederate bushwhackers led by William Quantrill, was traveling south through ...
Baxter Springs, Kansas Confederate guerrillas, Union Department of Kansas: Confederate 3, Union 70 [92] October 10: Blue Springs, Tennessee Confederate cavalry, Union Army of the Ohio Confederate 216, Union 100 [93] October 11: Henderson's Mill, Tennessee Confederate cavalry detachment from Department of Southwestern Virginia, Union 5th Indiana ...
The Second Battle of Sabine Pass (September 8, 1863) was a failed Union Army attempt to invade the Confederate state of Texas during the American Civil War. [2] The Union Navy supported the effort and lost three gunboats during the battle, two captured and one destroyed. It has often been credited as the war's most one-sided Confederate victory.
The attack, on the morning of Friday August 21, 1863, targeted Lawrence due to the town's long support of abolition and its reputation as a center for the Jayhawkers, who were free-state militia and vigilante groups known for attacking plantations in pro-slavery Missouri's western counties. It is the worst mass shooting in Kansas history.
The day following the Union victory in the Battle of Gettysburg, on July 4, 1863, the most important Confederate stronghold, located on the Mississippi River in Vicksburg, Mississippi, also fell to the Union, in the Siege of Vicksburg. [9] The Battle Gettysburg was the first major defeat suffered by Lee.
The Kansas Pacific began in 1855 as the Leavenworth, Pawnee and Western Railroad, and was later reorganized in 1863 as the Union Pacific Eastern Division. The UP Eastern was authorized by the United States Congress as part of the Pacific Railway Act , in order to create a second southerly branch of the transcontinental railroad , alongside the ...
At the outbreak of the American Civil War in April 1861, Kansas was the newest U.S. state, admitted just months earlier in January. The state had formally rejected slavery by popular vote and vowed to fight on the side of the Union, though ideological divisions with neighboring Missouri, a slave state, had led to violent conflict in previous years and persisted for the duration of the war.
After the raid, Quantrill led his men behind Confederate lines down to Sherman, Texas, where they wintered in 1863–1864. Along the way, they attacked Fort Baxter (Kansas), and ambushed and killed near 100 Union troops in the Battle of Baxter Springs. In Texas, they continued to embarrass the Confederate command by their often-lawless actions.