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Date: September 18th-20th, 1861 Location: Approximately 40 miles east of Kansas City, in Lafayette County, Missouri Approximate Troop Strength: Union 3,500; Missouri State Guard (Confederate) 15,000. Commanders: Colonel James Mulligan (Union), Major General Sterling...
On August 10th, 1861, Union and Confederate forces engaged in the second major battle of the Civil War, when U.S troops under Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon engaged Missouri and Arkansas troops under Generals Sterling...
On July 16th, 1861, Brigadier General Irvin McDowell’s Union Army began a march from Washington DC toward Centreville and Manassas Junction, Virginia. At this point in the three month old Civil War, there had...
After defeating Union forces at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek, Missouri, in August 1861, Major General Sterling Price began moving his pro Confederate Missouri State Guard north in an effort to secure control of...
Shortly after the Union defeat at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek in August 1861, Confederate General Sterling Price marched his 10,000 man Missouri State Guard north from southwest Missouri toward the Missouri River valley....
On August 10th, 1861, Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon’s four brigade Union Army of the West attacked Confederate forces under the command of Brigadier General Ben McCulloch and Missouri State Guard troops of Major General...
On April 19th, 1861, just six days after the surrender of Fort Sumter to Confederate forces, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation declaring that the port cities of the Confederate states would be subject...
From the earliest days of the Civil War, Washington DC was a busy hub of military activity in addition to being the home of the Federal government. With the Confederacy and a hostile army...
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UNION
Abraham Lincoln
John Buford
Ambrose E. Burnside
Joshua L. Chamberlain
George A. Custer
David G. Farragut
James A. Garfield
Ulysses S. Grant
Winfield Scott Hancock
Rutherford B. Hayes
Nathaniel Lyon
George B. McClellan
James B. McPherson
George G. Meade
John F. Reynolds
John Sedgwick
Philip H. Sheridan
William T. Sherman
Edwin M. Stanton
George H. Thomas
CONFEDERACY
Jefferson Davis
Richard H. Anderson
Braxton Bragg
Patrick Cleburne
Nathan Bedford Forrest
A. P. Hill
John Bell Hood
Stonewall Jackson
Albert Sidney Johnston
Joseph E. Johnston
Robert E. Lee
James Longstreet
John S. Mosby
George E. Pickett
Leonidas Polk
Sterling Price
Edmund Kirby Smith
J.E.B. Stuart
Richard Taylor
