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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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"I Was a Prinsoner of War"
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Description
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Reprint of a portion of Samuel J. Reader's autobiography. A free-state partisan, Reader witnessed and participated in the Bleeding Kansas conflict and later served in the Second Kansas State Militia during Confederate General Stirling Price's 1864 invasion of Missouri and Kansas. He was taken prisoner during the Battle of the Big Blue and spent several days with the Confederate forces before he managed to escape. The reprinted portion here describes Reeder's capitivity, as he was forced to march south from Jackson County, Missouri to Fort Scott, Kansas.
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Date
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2014
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Witness to History
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Description
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Excerpts from John Benton's Hart's recorded recollections of his Civil War experiences as a member of the 11th Kansas Cavalary from October 19-23, 1864. Hart describes a skirmish with Confederate soldiers on October 19th, the Battle of the Little Blue on October 21st, the Battle of the Big Blue on October 22nd, and the Battle of Westport on October 23rd. The author states that Hart's account is now in the posession of his great-grandson and that a more complete version will be published in January of 2015.
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Date
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2014-10-12
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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The Jackson County Blues
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Description
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Discussion of an important segment of the Battle of Westport at the Big Blue River.
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Date
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1973-06
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
