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Title: The Battle of Westport
Description: Photo of and from the Harris House, used as a Civil War headquarters for General Curtis.
Date: 1906
Object Type: Book

Title: Report of the Price Raid Commissioner
Description: Expense and damage report of the Price Raid by the Kansas legislature.
Date: 1889
Object Type: Book

Title: Battle of Westport and National Memorial Park
Description: Excerpts of the Civil War battlefield diary of Brigadier-General John Philips (1814-1886), a participant in the Battle of Westport on the Union side and later national representative of Missouri.
Date: 1938
Object Type: Book

Title: The Ford That Made the Byram Name Historic
Description: Byram's Ford, a familiar name in local Civil War history, was named after brothers Peter and Augustus Byram who came to this area from western Kentucky in 1839. Before the war, Santa Fe freighters crossed the Blue River at this ford. Peter married Emma Meeker, daughter of the Rev. Jotham Meeker, early Baptist missionary to the Indians in Kansas.
Date: 2005-09
Object Type: Newsletter Article

Title: Shelby and His Men: Or the War in the West
Description: Account of the Battle of Westport by the author, one of Confederate General Joseph Shelby's soldiers for the Confederates.
Date: 1867
Object Type: Book

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