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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 .
The battle site was established as Wilson's Creek National Battlefield Park on April 22, 1960, [10] and was re-designated a National Battlefield on December 16, 1970. [11] The battlefield was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966. [12]
Wilsons Creek [1] is a 13.9-mile-long (22.4 km) [2] waterway near Springfield, Missouri, United States. It is formed by the confluence of Jordan Creek and Fassnight Creek in southwest Springfield, just south of Bennett Street between Scenic Avenue and Kansas Expressway .
Wilson's Creek National Battlefield Address: 5242 S. State Highway Z in Republic The site also marks where Nathaniel Lyon, the first Union general killed in action, died.
The following Union Army units [1] and commanders fought in the Battle of Wilson's Creek of the American Civil War, fought on August 10, 1861, near Springfield, Missouri. The Confederate order of battle is shown separately.
Ron Woodard, hired by Springfield Public Schools in 2020, was named the new principal at Wilson's Creek Intermediate in late October.
The following Confederate States Army units [1] and commanders fought in the Battle of Wilson's Creek of the American Civil War, fought on August 10, 1861, near Springfield, Missouri. Though identified with the Confederates, the Missouri State Guard were technically an independent army, as Missouri had not yet seceded, and were not folded into ...
The 1st Missouri continued to campaign with Lyon, marching southwest to Springfield, eventually confronting a united Confederate and Missouri State Guard force near Springfield. 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 ...