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The Battle of Wilson's Creek, also known as the Battle of Oak Hills, was the first major battle of the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War. It was fought on August 10, 1861, near Springfield , Missouri .
On 10 August 1861 in the Battle of Wilson's Creek, 5,400 Union soldiers with 16 guns under Nathaniel Lyon attacked 10,175 Confederate troops with 15 guns led by Sterling Price, Nicholas Bartlett Pearce, and McCulloch. [5] Lyon's attack was a complete surprise.
During the Civil War, The Battle of Wilson's Creek was fought in the area between an estimated 5,400 Union Troops and an estimated 11,000 Confederate troops. [5] There were an 1,235 estimated Union casualties (22.87% of total Union forces), and an estimated 1,095 Confederate casualties (9.95% of total Confederate forces).
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The Battle of Wilson's Creek came to an abrupt and inglorious halt when the Union commander was killed. Leaderless and outnumbered five-to-one, the bluecoats fled the battlefield. The Arkansas troops played a role in winning the battle, but paid a heavy price for victory. [5] Two Arkansas units suffered particularly heavy casualties.
The resulting Battle of Wilson's Creek fought ten miles south of the city on 10 August 1861, was a bloody affair, and the second costliest in American history up to that time. The 1st Missouri, now under Lieutenant Colonel George Lippitt Andrews , fought with Lyon's detachment of the Federal force on Bloody Hill.
In addition to its Missouri state regimental number, the regiment bore the name "The Lyon Legion" in honor of Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon, killed in action on August 10, 1861, leading Federal troops in the battle of Battle of Wilson's Creek. The regiment was attached to 1st Brigade, Army of Southwest Missouri, to February 1862.
"The Struggle for Missouri: Lyon's Campaign and the Battle of Wilson's Creek". In Elkins, Kenneth (ed.). Hard Times/Hard War. Republic, Missouri: Wilson's Creek National Battlefield. Official Military History of Kansas Regiments During the War for the Suppression of the Great Rebellion. Leavenworth, Kansas: W. S. Burke. 1870.