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Near Kansas City, Union troops clashed with Price's army in a series of battles:
October 19 in Lexington
October 21 at the Little Blue River
October 22 at the Big Blue River
October 23 in Westport
The Battle of Westport was a stunni…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19W0_prices-raid_Pleasanton-KS.html
One of the largest cavalry battles of the Civil War was fought in the fields around Mine Creek.
In August 1864 Confederate Major General Sterling Price received orders to invade Missouri. He was to bring Missouri into the confederacy and at the…
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This present day photo of Mine Creek Battlefield with overlays highlights the positions of Union and Confederate troops at 11 a.m. on October 25, 1864. Note where you are positioned in relationship to the events of that day.
The woods and farm …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17XO_prescott-rural-high-school_Pleasanton-KS.html
This property has beenplaced on theNational Registerof Historic Placesby the United StatesDepartment of the Interior
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXVA_two-mounted-armies-collide_Pleasanton-KS.html
Captain Richard Hinton was with the Union soldiers as they approached from the north. As the "timber of Mine Creek" came into view, Hinton wrote,
the enemy were discovered in great force formed in line of battle upon the north side of the strea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXV1_the-fort-scott-road_Pleasanton-KS.html
The Fort Scott Road ran in a north/south direction just east of the fence line. As it approached Mine Creek it veered to the southwest. This road paralled [sic] the route of present-day U.S. 69 Highway. Because this was a "running" engagement, the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQNQ_marais-des-cygnes-massacre-state-historic-site-trail_Pleasanton-KS.html
A Nation at OddsThe mid 1800s were a time of turmoil and tragedy in the U.S. The issue of slavery polarized the nation. It created a moral, political, and economic dilemma. The struggle over slavery ultimately led to the Civil War, splitting the N…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQNP_murder-on-the-marais-des-cygnes_Pleasanton-KS.html
The bloodiest single incident in the Kansas-Missouri border struggles, 1854-1861, occurred May 19, 1858, when about 30 Proslavery Missourians seized 11 Kansas Free-State men near Trading Post and marched them to a ravine 225 yards northwest of thi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMO9_sounds-of-the-byway-moccasins-and-tears_Pleasanton-KS.html
Potawatomi Tribal members were marched from Indiana in 1838 to be relocated on Indian Territory lands. The march was long and arduous. Many Potawatomi, especially children and the elderly, died of illness along the way. Those who survived the jour…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMO7_sounds-from-the-past-hoof-beats-and-heartbeats_Pleasanton-KS.html
Pro- and anti-slavery forces made their way to this area on horseback and on foot in the fight over whether Kansas would be a free state or a slave state. Skirmishes, scuffles and screams could be heard in the woodlands nearby.
The Marias des C…