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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Resume of military operations in Missouri and Arkansas, 1864-65. (search)
with a force of about two thousand men from Kansas City to join General Brown, and picked up some ong the eastern border of the State south of Kansas City, and urged Governor Carney, of Kansas, to cf the Big Blue back upon the State line and Kansas City, Pleasonton's cavalry came up and attacked the west side of the Big Blue, just south of Westport. Pleasonton's cavalry encamped that night arg Blue. Curtis's forces were encamped from Kansas City to Westport and along the State line west oWestport and along the State line west of Westport. At daylight on the 23d the columns of Pleasonton began to move west, and those of CurWestport. At daylight on the 23d the columns of Pleasonton began to move west, and those of Curtis to move south, and in a short time afterward they became warmly engaged with the Confederates, wline of battle two and a half miles south of Westport. The opposing armies fought over an area of rd down the line road. After the battle near Westport the cavalry of Curtis and Pleasonton kept up empt to make a stand. His line of march from Westport to Newtonia was strewn with the debris of a r