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The Battle of Cape Girardeau was a military demonstration of the American Civil War, occurring on April 26, 1863 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The conflict was part of the pursuit of US Brigadier General John McNeil through Southeast Missouri by Confederate Brigadier General John S. Marmaduke. Though the conflict to this day is known as a battle ...
Fort D is the only surviving fortification built by Union troops in the area during the Civil War. Fort A was located slightly north of downtown Cape Girardeau on a high hill. A grist-grinding windmill was included in the fort. Fort B was located where Academic Hall now stands at Southeast Missouri State University.
American Civil War Union-750, Confederacy- ? 19 KIA, 160 WIA, 10 MIA/POW United States vs. Confederate States Indecisive Cape Girardeau: April 26, 1863 Cape Girardeau County: American Civil War Union-4,000, Confederacy- 5,000 337 United States vs. Confederate States Union victory Chalk Bluff: May 1–2, 1863 Dunklin County: American Civil War
During the American Civil War, Missouri was a hotly contested border state populated by both Union and Confederate sympathizers. It sent armies, generals, and supplies to both sides, maintained dual governments, and endured a bloody neighbor-against-neighbor intrastate war within the larger national war.
Company "G" also at Cape Girardeau and Bird's Point, Mo., until March, 1862, rejoining Regiment March 8. Regiment moved from St. Louis, Mo., to Lamine Bridge, on Missouri Pacific Railroad, September 19, 1861, and duty there until October 26. Moved to Sedalia, Mo., and duty there until December 11. Moved to Georgetown, thence to Otterville, Mo ...
The Confederate War Memorial is a memorial to Confederate soldiers located behind the Common Pleas Courthouse in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. It was erected by the Cape Girardeau United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1931. [1] It was moved to its current location in 1995. [2] Beside it is a fountain and statue erected in 1911 by the Women's ...
SERVICE.--Garrison duty at Cape Girardeau, Mo., until 14 March 1863. Moved to Bloomfield 14 March and return to Cape Girardeau 21 April. Action at Cape Girardeau 28 April. Pursuit of Marmaduke to Castor 28 April-5 May. At Cape Girardeau until July. Moved to Bloomington 10 July, thence march to Clarendon, Ark., 19 July-8 August.
Capt. Lewis Reed is believed to have been Rockland's longest-serving Civil War veteran, with four years and four months of service. He died at age 83 in 1925.