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Also at around 11:00, Shelby decided to attempt to force a crossing of the Big Blue at Byram's Ford, [44] which was in the southern portion of the Union line. [49] Byram's Ford had been occupied by Jennison's brigade since around 09:00, defensive works being prepared by one of Grant's militia regiments the night before.
Byram's Ford was the best in the area, and thus became a strategic point during the fighting that was about to take place around Westport. On October 22, Blunt's Union division held a defensive position on the Big Blue's west bank. Around 10:00 a.m., parts of Shelby's division conducted a diversionary frontal attack on Blunt's men.
In 1906, local historian Paul Jenkins published his Battle of Westport, while the Byram's Ford engagement was reenacted in Swope Park in 1912. [11] During the 1920s, civic leaders under H. H. Crittenden of the Missouri Valley Historical Society conceived a plan to save the Westport battle sites near present-day Loose Park and Byram's Ford.
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The surviving wing of Byram Hall, in 2020. Byram Park is a former country estate in Byram, North Yorkshire, a village in England. The estate was acquired by the Ramsden family in 1618. Byram Hall, at the heart of the park, had been built in the 16th century, and was altered by its new owners.
Byram v. United States , 705 F.2d 1418 (5th Cir. 1983) [ 1 ] is a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that helps determine when a sale of land will result in a capital gain for purpose of the U.S. Federal income tax .
Byram cum Poole became a separate civil parish in 1866, but in 1891 was merged with the civil parish of Sutton to form the civil parish of Byram cum Sutton. [3] Byram grew rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1974 it was transferred to the new county of North Yorkshire. Byram Hall was a large country house east of the village, in Byram Park.