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The Battle of Mine Creek, also known as the Battle of Little Osage, was fought on October 25, 1864, in Linn County, Kansas, as part of Price's Missouri Campaign during the American Civil War. Major-General Sterling Price had begun an expedition in September 1864 to restore Confederate control of Missouri. After being defeated at Westport near ...
December 12, 1973. The Mine Creek Battlefield State Historic Site, located 2.5 miles (4.0 km) southwest of Pleasanton in eastern Kansas, United States, commemorates the Battle of Mine Creek in the American Civil War. On October 25, 1864, approximately 2,800 Union troops attacked and defeated about 8,000 Confederates along the banks of Mine Creek.
1,653. 629. The Battle of Mine Run, also known as Payne's Farm, or New Hope Church, or the Mine Run campaign (November 27 – December 2, 1863), was conducted in Orange County, Virginia, in the American Civil War. An unsuccessful attempt of the Union Army of the Potomac to defeat the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, it was marked by false ...
Union victory. 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. Led by Confederate Major General Sterling Price, the campaign aimed to ...
The battlefield was entered on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, after the Fund acquired 50 acres (200,000 m 2) of the Westport battlefield, including the site of Byram's Ford itself. Title was transferred to the Kansas City Parks Department in April 1995, and archaeological surveys in 1996 revealed artifacts from the battle in ...
2nd Brigade. Col Thomas Moonlight. (Brigade did not participate in Battle of Mine Creek) 3rd Brigade [Kansas State Militia Division] Col Charles W. Blair. BG William H. M. Fishback. (Brigade did not participate in Battle of Mine Creek) 4th Brigade. Col James Hobart Ford.
October 16, 2012. The Battle of Black Jack took place on June 2, 1856, when antislavery forces, led by the noted abolitionist John Brown, attacked the encampment of Henry C. Pate near Baldwin City, Kansas. The battle is cited as one incident of "Bleeding Kansas" and a contributing factor leading up to the American Civil War of 1861 to 1865.
Two hours before dawn the next day Maj. Samuel B. Davis and J. R. Brown, an agent of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, arrived on the Mine Creek battlefield to determine how many wounded were on the battlefield and how to tend to them. When dawn came, many of the wounded from both sides were loaded on ambulances and taken to Mound City, where a ...