Arkansas Carlton's Battalion Cavalry (Confederate)
10/23/64
Battle - Westport - Westport, Missouri
The Battle of Westport, fought October 21-23, was the largest battle west of the Mississippi River and the decisive battle of Confederate Gen. Stirling Price's 1864 Missouri campaign. Directions guide the visitor to the first of twenty-five narrative markers on a 32-mile, self-guided automobile tour and a self-guided walking tour of Byram's Ford and the Big Blue Battlefield. Each marker provides directions to the next stop on the tour. A written brochure is available from the Battle of Westport Visitor Cen…READ MORE
10/25/64
Leadership Change - Regiment - Lieutenant Colonel R. H. Thompson
Lieutenant ColonelR. H. Thompson
10/25/64
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel William A. Crawford, and Colonel William F. Slemons
ColonelWilliam A. Crawford
ColonelWilliam F. Slemons
10/25/64
Leadership Change - Division - Major General James Fleming Fagan
Major GeneralJames Fleming Fagan
10/25/64
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel William F. Slemons
ColonelWilliam F. Slemons
10/25/64
Battle - Mine Creek - Linn County, Kansas
About six miles south of Trading Post, Kansas, where the Marais de Cygnes cavalry engagement had occurred earlier in the day, the Union brigades of Col. Frederick Benteen and Col. John Phillips, of Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton's Provisional Cavalry Division, overtook a retreating Confederate cavalry column from Maj. Gen Sterling Price's Army of Missouri crossing Mine Creek. The rebels, stalled by their 500-wagon supply train crossing the rain-swollen ford, formed a line of about 7,000 men on the north side…READ MORE
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