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The first major Civil War battle west of the Mississippi River took place on August 10, 1861, at Wilson's Creek, Missouri, while the largest battle west of the Mississippi River was the Battle of Westport in Kansas City in 1864.
Price's Missouri Expedition (August 29 – December 2, 1864), also known as Price's Raid or Price's Missouri Raid, was an unsuccessful Confederate cavalry raid through Arkansas, Missouri, and Kansas in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War.
October 22–23, 1864 Kansas City: American Civil War Union-2 divisions, Confederacy-2 divisions ? United States vs. Confederate States Union victory Westport: October 23, 1864 Westport: American Civil War Union-22,000, Confederacy- 8,500 3,000 United States vs. Confederate States Union victory Charlot: October 25, 1864 Vernon County: American ...
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 ...
Westport (now a part of Kansas City, Missouri) had already established its place in history by the time Union and Confederate forces clashed there in 1864. John Calvin McCoy , known as the "Father of Kansas City", had laid out the town, and pioneers traveling along the Oregon , California and Santa Fe Trails all passed through it on their way ...
The Second Battle of Independence was fought on October 22, 1864, near Independence, Missouri, as part of Price's Raid during the American Civil War.In late 1864, Major General Sterling Price of the Confederate States Army led a cavalry force into the state of Missouri, hoping to create a popular uprising against Union control, draw Union Army troops from more important areas, and influence ...
Map of Price's Missouri Expedition. At the start of the American Civil War in 1861, the state of Missouri was a slave state, but did not secede.The state was politically divided: Governor Claiborne Fox Jackson and the Missouri State Guard supported secession and the Confederate States of America, while Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon and the Union Army supported the United States and opposed ...
1864 - October 23: Battle of Westport. 1865 Patrick Shannon becomes mayor. The American Civil War ends. Lincoln College Preparatory Academy founded. 1866 - St. Teresa's Academy established. 1867 March 1: First meeting of the Kansas City Public Schools Board of Education. [11] Central High School established. The Kansas City Times was founded.