OCTOBER 28, 1864:
The Second Battle of
Newtonia, Missouri:
General Sterling Price C.S.A.’s tattered Confederate column
re-enters Missouri after its drubbing in Kansas. The pursuing Federal column
which has been chasing Price all this time, falls upon his men yet again. A
vicious firefight ensues, and Price flees across the border into Indian
Territory. Price loses some 250 men, leaving him with a ragtag force of 5,550. Price’s
defeat marks the end of formal Confederate military action in Missouri for the
remainder of the war, though guerrillas and bushwhackers continue their
depredations even after the war formally ends.
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