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The Battle of Lexington State Historic Site is a state-owned property located in the city of Lexington, Missouri.The site was established in 1958 to preserve the grounds where an American Civil War battle took place in 1861 between Confederate troops led by Major-General Sterling Price and federal troops led by Colonel James A. Mulligan.
The once-thriving river village of Athens, Missouri, had up to fifty businesses and a large mill in antebellum times. [4] In July 1861, it was occupied by pro-Union forces of the Missouri Home Guard. Wanting to seize the strategically important village for the Confederacy, elements of the pro-Southern Missouri State Guard attacked on August 5 ...
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of March 13, 2009 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
Location of Washington County in Missouri. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Missouri. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Missouri, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...
At the Battle of Pea Ridge in March 1862, Price commanded a mixed force that contained both Confederate soldiers from Missouri and elements of the Missouri State Guard. [5] By July 1862, almost all of the Missouri State Guard had left the unit to join Confederate States Army units. [6] The list of Missouri Union Civil War units is shown separately.
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 ...
"Missouri Railroads During the Civil War and Reconstruction." Missouri Historical Review 35#2 (1941) pp. 188–206; Fluker, Amy Laurel. Commonwealth of Compromise: Civil War Commemoration in Missouri (U of Missouri Press, 2020) online review; Geiger, Mark W. Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861–1865.
The Battle of Athens was an American Civil War skirmish that took place in northeast Missouri in 1861 near present-day Revere and southeast Iowa along the Des Moines River across from Croton (3 miles southeast of Farmington).