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The Battle of Island Mound State Historic Site is located in a rural area of Bates County, Missouri, in the western part of the state. The site was established to preserve the area of the American Civil War battle that took place in October 28–29, 1862 between Union forces and Confederate guerrillas. The battle was significant as the first ...
Map compilation: pp. 239, 241, and 247. National Park Service battle description; Goman, Frederick W., Up From Arkansas: Marmaduke's First Missouri Raid Including the Battles of Springfield and Hartville, 1999; Historical Society of Wright County, Missouri, The Civil War Battle of Hartville and Related Events, 1997; Mudd, Joseph A.,
On July 21, with the help of a company of Illinois militia and a company of Iowa Home Guards he attacked the village of Etna in Scotland County, Missouri and drove off Shacklett's MSG cavalry. He then fell back to Athens. Colonel Green responded by entering Edina in Knox County, Missouri on July 31—stampeding the local Home Guards. He then ...
Battle of Athens State Historic Site is an historic battlefield and state park located in Clark County, Missouri, along the banks of the Des Moines River. It is the site of the Battle of Athens, fought in 1861 during the American Civil War. The site serves as an open-air museum interpreting the battle and its aftermath. [3]
Two sites in Missouri were once a National Historic Landmark but later had their designations withdrawn when they failed to meet the program's criteria for inclusion. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The NHLs are distributed across fifteen of Missouri's 114 counties and one independent city , with a concentration of fifteen landmarks in the state's only independent ...
Missouri was initially settled predominantly by Southerners, who traveled up the Mississippi River.Many brought slaves with them. Missouri entered the Union in 1821 as a slave state following the Missouri Compromise of 1820, in which Congress agreed that slavery would be illegal in all territory north of 36°30' latitude, except Missouri.
Clark County: American Civil War Home Guard-333-500, Missouri State Guard-~2,000 men plus 3 cannon 3 KIA, 20 WIA, 31 KIA & WIA United States vs. Missouri (Confederate) Union victory Wilson's Creek: August 10, 1861 Christian and Greene counties American Civil War Union-5,430, Missouri State Guard-12,120 535 KIA, 1808 WIA, 196 MIA United States ...
Map of Kirksville Battlefield core and study areas by the American Battlefield Protection Program Confederate Col. Joseph C. Porter had been recruiting in the Macon area, to the south of Kirksville. He had assembled a brigade of between 1,500 and 2,500 ill-trained and poorly equipped troops, but his irregulars had harried and recruited as far ...