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Title
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Getting Lost on a Civil War Battlefield
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Description
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Detailed analysis on the history of mapping the areas of the Battle of Big Blue and the Battle of Westport. Both battles took place in October 1864 during Confederate Major General Sterling Price's Missouri campaign. Map-making during the Civil War was difficult in the best of circumstances, but the first commissioned map of the battles by civilian topographical engineer Lyman G. Bennet contained a number of inaccuracies which were repeated and/or exacerbated in later maps, making it difficult to find precisely where the events occurred.
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Date
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2012
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1861-1865, Plate LXVI
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Description
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Composite of 11 small maps of Civil War battles, campaigns, and important locations. Campaign Against Sterling Price, 1864; Osage or Mine Creek, Kansas; Johnson's Island, Ohio Military Prison; Five Forks, Virginia; Westport and Big Blue, Missouri; Westport, Missouri; Newtonia, Missouri; and Charlot, Missouri (aka Shiloh Creek). Maps illustrate Union and Confederate positions, towns, rivers, railroads, and important local landmarks.
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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A Story of Brave Kansans
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Description
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Story of "the greatest crisis ever faced in Kansas and the most interesting and heroic battle fought by the army of the West in the Civil War."
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Date
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1995
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Missouri! One Last Time
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Description
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Article provides a detailed account of of the 1864 attempt by forces under the command of General Sterling Price to retake Missouri for the Confederacy. It includes photographs of military leaders and battle grounds and black and white maps of Price's Missouri Expedition and the Battles of Pilot Knob, Glasgow, and Westport.
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Date
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1991-06
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Object Type
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Magazine
