Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles

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1861

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April 20: Seizure of Liberty Arsenal

By Confederates.

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May 4: Affair at Kansas City

Seizure of Property.

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May 10: Capture of Camp Jackson

MISSOURI--3d Infantry; 1st, 3d and 4th Reserve Corps.

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May 10: Riot, St. Louis, Fifth and Wainut Streets

MISSOURI--5th Reserve Corps.

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May 15: Expedition from St. Louis to Potosi

MISSOURI--1st (Co. "A") and 5th (Co. "A") Infantry.

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June 13-17: Expedition from St. Louis to Booneville

UNITED STATES--Battery "F" 2d Arty.; 2d Infantry Co. "B").

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June 14: Capture of Jefferson City

MISSOURI--1st and 2d Infantry. UNITED STATES--Battery "F" 2d Arty.; 2d Infantry (Co. "B").

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June 17: Engagement, Booneville

MISSOURI--1st and 2d Infantry. UNITED STATES--Battery "F" 1st Arty.; 2d Infantry (Co. "B"); 2 Co's Recruits U. S. Army. Union loss, 2 killed, 17 wounded. Total, 19.

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June 17: Skirmish, Independence

MISSOURI--Detachment of Volunteers under Capt. Stanley.

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June 18: Skirmish, Camp Cole

Union Home Guard. Union loss, 15 killed, 52 wounded. Total, 67.

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June 22-23: Exp. from Cairo, Ills., to Little River

ILLINOIS--Kowald's and Walker's Detachment Cavalry; 7th (Co's "E," "G"), 8th (Co's "B," "C"), 9th (Co's "C," "H") and 11th (Co's "A," "B") Infantry.

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July 4: Skirmish, Farmington

(No Reports.)

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July 5: Engagement, Carthage, Dry Forks, Crooked Briar Fork

MISSOURI--Backoff's Battalion Light Arty.; 3d and 5th Infantry. Union loss, 18 killed, 53 wounded, 5 missing. Total, 76.

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July 5: Skirmish, Neosho

MISSOURI--3d Infantry (Co. "B" Rifle Battalion).

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July 9: Skirmish, Monroe Station

ILLINOIS--16th Infantry. IOWA--3d Infantry.

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July 11: Skirmish, Monroe Station

ILLINOIS--16th Infantry (Co's "F," "H"). IOWA--3d Infantry (Co's "A," "F," "H," "K"). MISSOURI--Hannibal Home Guard (Co. "A"). Union loss, 3 killed.

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July 15: Skirmish, Mexico

MISSOURI--2d Infantry (3 months).

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July 15-17: Skirmishes, Wentzville, Northern Missouri R. R.

MISSOURI--8th Infantry. Union loss, 7 killed, 1 wounded. Total. 8.

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July 16: Skirmish, Millsville

MISSOURI--8th Infantry. Union loss, 7 killed, 1 wounded. Total, 8.

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July 17: Skirmish, Fulton

MISSOURI--3d Reserve Corps. Union loss, 1 killed, 15 wounded. Total, 16.

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July 17: Skirmish, Martinsburg

MISSOURI--1st Reserve Corps (1 Co.). Union loss, 1 killed, 1 wounded. Total, 2.

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July 17-19: Skirmishes, Parkersville

MISSOURI--Cass County Home Guard Cavalry.

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July 18: Skirmish, Martinsburg

MISSOURI--Reserve Corps, Cavalry (Co. "A").

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July 18: Aciton near Harrisonville

MISSOURI--Van Horn's Battalion Reserve Corps. Union loss, 1 killed.

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July 20-25: Expedition from Springfield to Forsyth

IOWA--1st Infantry (3 months). KANSAS--2d Infantry. UNITED STATES--Stanley's Dragoons; Totten's Battery "F" 2d Arty.

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July 22: Skirmish, Etna

MISSOURI--21st Infantry.

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July 22: Action, Forsyth

IOWA--1st Infantry. KANSAS--2d Infantry. UNITED STATES--Stanley's Dragoons Totten's Battery "F" 2d Arty. Union loss, 3 wounded.

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July 24: Action, Blue Mills

MISSOURI--5th Reserve Corps. Union loss, 1 killed, 12 wounded. Total, 13.

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July 25: Skirmish, Dug Springs

MISSOURI--Battery "E" 1st Light Arty. UNITED STATES--Stanley's Dragoons, 2 Companies Regular Infantry.

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July 25: Skirmish, Harrisonville

KANSAS--5th Cavalry.

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July 26: Skirmish, Lane's Prairie, near Rolla

MISSOURI--Home Guard. Union loss, 3 wounded.

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July 26: Skirmish, McCulla's Store

MISSOURI--Battery "E" 1st Light Arty.

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July 27: Skirmish, Harrisonville

MISSOURI--Cass County Home Guard Cavalry.

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July 28: Occupation of New Madrid

By Confederates.

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Aug. 1: Skirmish, Edina

(No Reports.)

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Aug. 2: Reconnoissance from Ironton to Centreville

ILLINOIS--24th Infantry.

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Aug. 2: Skirmish, Dug Springs

IOWA--1st Infantry. MISSOURI--Batteries "A," "B," "C," "H," "K" 1st Light Arty.; 3d Infantry (3 months). UNITED STATES--4th Cavalry; 2d Infantry (4 Co's). Union loss, 4 killed, 37 wounded. Total, 41.

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Aug. 3: Action, McCulla's Store

MISSOURI--1st Light Arty (Co's "A," "H").

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Aug. 5: Skirmish, Athens

IOWA--Keokuk City Rifles, Capt. W. W. Belknap. MISSOURI--21st Infantry; Home Guards. Union loss, 3 killed, 8 wounded. Total, 11.

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Aug. 7-10: Expedition to Price's Landing, Commerce, Benton and Hamburg

ILLINOIS--20th Infantry (Co. "F"). MISSOURI--8th Infantry (Co. "F").

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Aug. 10: Battle of Wilson's Creek, Springfield, Oak Hill

IOWA--1st Infantry. KANSAS--1st and 2d Infantry; Wood's Mounted Company. MISSOURI--Backoff's Battalion Light Arty., 1st Light Arty.; 1st, 2d, 3d and 5th Infantry. UNITED STATES--1st Cavalry (Co's "D," "I"); 2d Dragoons (Co. "C"); Totten's Battery "F" 2d Arty.; 1st (Co's "B," "C," "D"), 2d Co's "B," "E") Infantry; 1 Company Rifle Recruits and 1 Company Recruits; Missouri Home Guard Mounted. Union loss, 223 killed, 721 wounded, 291 missing. Total, 1,235.

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Aug. 10: Skirmish, Potosi

MISSOURI--Home Guard. Union loss, 1 killed.

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Aug. 11: Affair, Hamburg

MISSOURI--Home Guard.

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Aug. 15-16: Expedition to St. Genevieve

MISSOURI--8th Infantry.

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Aug. 16: Expedition to Fredericktown

(No Reports.)

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Aug. 16-21: Operations about Kirksville

ILLINOIS--16th Infantry. IOWA--3d Infantry.

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Aug. 17: Skirmish, Brunswick

MISSOURI--5th Reserve Corps. Union loss, 1 killed, 7 wounded. Total, 8.

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Aug. 17: Affairs at Hunnewell and Palmyra

ILLINOIS--16th Infantry.

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Aug. 19: Skirmish, Klepsford

(No Reports.)

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Aug. 19-20: Skirmishes, Charleston, Bird's Point

ILLINOIS--1st Cavalry (Detachment); 22d Infantry. Union loss, 1 killed, 6 wounded. Total, 7.

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Aug. 20: Skirmish, Fish Lake

ILLINOIS--1st Cavalry.

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Aug. 20: Attack near Lookout Station

MISSOURI--Home Guard. Union loss, 1 killed, 6 wounded. Total, 7.

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Aug. 21-22: Skirmishes, Jonesborough

MISSOURI--Cass County Home Guard Cavalry.

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Aug. 23: Skirmish, Medoc

(No Reports.)

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Aug. 28: Skirmish, Lexington

MISSOURI--Home Guard.

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Aug. 28: Skirmish, Ball's Mill

KANSAS--5th and 9th (Co. "C") Cavalry; 1st Battery Light Arty.

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Aug. 28-Sept. 5: Expedition to Jackson

ILLINOIS--20th Infantry.

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Aug. 29: Skirmish, Morse's Mill

KANSAS--5th and 9th (Co. "C") Cavalry; 1st Battery Light Arty.

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Aug. 30-Sept. 7: Operations in Northeastern Missouri

ILLINOIS--16th Infantry. IOWA--3d Infantry. KANSAS--2d Infantry.

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Sept. 1: Skirmish, Bennight's Mills

MISSOURI--Home Guard. Union loss, 1 killed, 8 wounded. Total, 9.

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Sept. 1-3: Expedition through Jefferson County

MISSOURI--10th Infantry.

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Sept. 2: Skirmish, Dallas

MISSOURI--11th Infantry. Union loss, 2 killed.

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Sept. 2: Action, Drywood Creek, Fort Scott

KANSAS--5th, 6th and 9th (1 Co.) Cavalry; 1st Battery Light Arty. Union loss, 4 killed, 9 wounded. Total, 13.

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Sept. 2: Expedition to Belmont and Charleston

ILLINOIS--12th Infantry.

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Sept. 2: Expedition to Columbia and Iberia

IOWA--5th Infantry.

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Sept. 4: Action, Shelbina

IOWA--3d Infantry. KANSAS--2d Infantry.

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Sept. 5: Skirmish, Papinsville

KANSAS--5th Cavalry.

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Sept. 6: Skirmish, Monticello Bridge

(No Reports.)

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Sept. 7: Expedition to Big Springs

INDIANA--24th Infantry.

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Sept. 8-9: Expedition against Green's Guerrillas

ILLINOIS--16th Infantry. IOWA--3d Infantry.

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Sept. 8-19: Reconnoissance of Columbus and Engagement at Lucas Bend

U. S. Gunboat "Lexington."

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Sept. 10: Reconnoissance toward Norfolk

ILLINOIS--8th Infantry.

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Sept. 11: Defence of Lexington

ILLINOIS--1st Cavalry; 23d Infantry.

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Sept. 12: Skirmish, Black River, Ironton

INDIANA--1st Cavalry (3 Co's). MISSOURI--1st Cavalry. Union loss, 2 killed, 5 wounded. Total, 7.

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Sept. 13-20: Siege of Lexington

ILLINOIS--1st Cavalry; 23d Infantry. MISSOURI--Berry's and Van Horn's Cavalry Battalions; 8th, 25th and 27th Infantry; 13th and 14th Home Guard Cavalry. Union loss, 42 killed, 108 wounded, 1,624 captured and missing. Total, 1,774.

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Sept. 13: Capture of St. Joseph

(No Reports.)

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Sept. 13: Action, Booneville

MISSOURI--Home Guard. Union loss, 1 killed, 4 wounded. Total, 5.

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Sept. 14: Skirmish, Old Randolph

MISSOURI--Cass County Home Guard Cavalry.

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Sept. 17: Skirmish, Liberty

ILLINOIS--Battery "E" 2d Light Arty.

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Sept. 17: Skirmish, Blue Mills Landing

IOWA--3d Infantry. Union loss, 11 killed, 39 wounded. Total, 50.

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Sept. 17: Skirmish, Morristown

KANSAS--5th and 6th Cavalry; 1st Battery Light Arty.; 5th Infantry (2 Co's). Union loss, 2 killed, 6 wounded. Total, 8.

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Sept. 19: Skirmish, Glasgow

INDIANA--18th and 22d Infantry.

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Sept. 20: Action, Osceola

KANSAS--5th and 6th Cavalry.

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Sept. 20: Surrender of Lexington

ILLINOIS--1st Cavalry; 23d Infantry. MISSOURI--Berry's and Van Horn's Cavalry Battalions; 8th, 25th and 27th Infantry; 13th and 14th Home Guard Cavalry.

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Sept. 22: Action, Osceola

KANSAS--5th and 6th Cavalry; 1st Battery Light Arty.; 5th Infantry (2 Co's). Union loss, 7 killed, 10 wounded. Total, 17.

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Sept. 22: Skirmish, Elliott's Mills, Camp Crittenden

IOWA--7th Infantry. Union loss, 1 killed, 5 wounded. Total, 6.

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Sept. 26: Skirmish Hunter's Farm, near Belmont

ILLINOIS--22d Infantry.

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Sept. 26: Skirmish, Lucas Bend

ILLINOIS--Stewart's Cavalry Company.

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Sept. 27: Skirmish near Norfolk

ILLINOIS--22d Infantry.

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Oct. 1: Skirmish, Butler

KANSAS--5th Cavalry.

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Oct. 2: Expedition from Bird's Point to Charleston

ILLINOIS--11th and 20th Infantry. IOWA--2d Infantry.

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Oct. 5: Skirmish, West Point

KANSAS--5th Cavalry.

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Oct. 5-16: Expedition to Lexington

ILLINOIS--Irish Dragoons; 23d Infantry. MISSOURI--1st Cavalry (Co's "C," "L").

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Oct. 7: Reconnoissance of Lucas Bend

U. S. Gunboats "Tyler" and "Lexington."

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Oct. 12: Skirmish, Cameron, Ray County

MISSOURI--Major James' Cavalry. Union loss, 1 killed, 4 wounded. Total, 5.

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Oct. 12: Skirmish, Clintonville

MISSOURI--Militia.

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Oct. 12-25: Operations about Ironton and Fredericktown

ILLINOIS--Stewart's Cavalry Company; Battery "B" 1st Light Arty.; 17th, 20th, 21st, 33d and 38th Infantry. INDIANA--1st Cavalry. MISSOURI--Benton Cavalry; Battery "A" 1st Light Arty.; 11th and 29th Infantry. WISCONSIN--8th Infantry.

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Oct. 13: Skirmish, Pomme de Terre

MISSOURI--State Militia.

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Oct. 13: Action, Wet Glaze, Dutch or Monday Hollow, near Henrytown

ILLINOIS--13th Infantry. MISSOURI--Bowen's 1st Battalion Cavalry, Fremont Battalion Cavalry.

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Oct. 13: Skirmish, Beckwith Farm, near Bird's Point

Detachment of Cavalry under Lieut. Tufts. Union loss, 2 killed, 5 wounded. Total, 7.

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Oct. 14: Skirmish, Rush Creek Road

MISSOURI--Coleman's Cass County Cavalry.

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Oct. 14: Skirmish, Underwood's Farm, near Bird's Point

ILLINOIS--1st Cavalry.

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Oct. 14: Skirmish, Linn Creek

ILLINOIS--13th Infantry. MISSOURI--Bowen's Battalion Cavalry, Fremont's Battalion Cavalry.

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Oct. 15: Skirmishes, Big River Bridge, near Potosi

ILLINOIS--33d Infantry (Detachment). Union loss, 1 killed, 6 wounded, 33 missing. Total, 40.

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Oct. 16: Skirmish near Linn Creek

MISSOURI--Fremont's Battalion Cavalry (Detachment).

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Oct. 16: Action, Lexington

ILLINOIS--Irish Dragoons, 23d Infantry. MISSOURI--1st Cavalry (Co's "C," "L").

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Oct. 17: Skirmish, Fredericktown

MISSOURI--6th Cavalry.

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Oct. 18: Skirmish, Fredericktown

INDIANA--1st Cavalry.

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Oct. 18: Skirmish, Warrensburg

MISSOURI--1st Cavalry.

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Oct. 19: Action, Big Hurricane Creek

MISSOURI--18th Infantry. Union loss, 2 killed, 14 wounded. Total, 16.

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Oct. 21: Action, Fredericktown, Ironton

ILLINOIS--Batteries "A" and "B" 1st Light Arty.; 17th, 20th, 21st, 33d and 33th Infantry. INDIANA--1st Cavalry. MISSOURI--6th Cavalry; Battery "A" 1st Light Arty.; 11th Infantry. WISCONSIN--8th Infantry. Union loss, 6 killed, 60 wounded. Total, 66.

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Oct. 24: Skirmish, Johnstown

ILLINOIS--Naughton's Irish Dragoons.

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Oct. 25: Skirmish, Springfield

MISSOURI--Fremont's Body Guard; White's Prairie Scouts. Union loss, 18 killed, 37 wounded. Total, 55.

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Oct. 27: Skirmish, Spring Hill

MISSOURI--7th Cavalry (1 Co.). Union loss, 7 wounded.

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Oct. 28: Expedition to Fulton

MISSOURI--Morton's Indpt. Regt. 10th Infantry.

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Nov. 1-9: Expedition from Rolla against Freeman's Forces

ILLINOIS--36th Infantry. IOWA--4th Infantry. KANSAS--Wood's Rangers.

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Nov. 2-12: Expedition from Bird's Point, Cape Girardeau and Ironton against Thompson's Forces

ILLINOIS--Battery "E" 2d Light Arty.; 8th, 11th, 18th, 29th and 38th Infantry. IOWA--10th Infantry. MISSOURI--Pfaff's, Langden's and Centralia Cavalry.

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Nov. 6: Engagement, Little Santa Fe

MISSOURI--4th Cavalry; Kowald's Battery Light Arty. KANSAS--6th Cavalry. Union loss, 2 killed, 6 wounded. Total, 8.

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Nov. 6-7: Expedition to Belmont

ILLINOIS--Dollins' Indpt. Cavalry Company, Delano's Adams Co. Cavalry; Battery "B" 1st Light Arty.; 22d, 27th, 30th and 31st Infantry. IOWA--7th Infantry.

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Nov. 7: Engagement, Belmont

ILLINOIS--Dollins' Indpt. Cavalry Company, Delano's Adams Co. Cavalry; Battery "B" 1st Light Arty.; 22d, 27th, 30th and 31st Infantry. IOWA--7th Infantry. Union loss, 80 killed, 322 wounded, 99 missing. Total, 501.

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Nov. 11: Action, Little Blue.

KANSAS--7th Cavalry (Detachment). Union loss, 7 killed, 9 wounded. Total, 16.

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Nov. 13-15: Expedition from Greenville to Doniphan

MISSOURI--Hawkins' Indpt. Company Cavalry.

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Nov. 13-18: Scout through Texas and Wright Counties

KANSAS--Wood's Rangers.

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Nov. 18: Affair near Warrensburg

Capture of Wagon Train.

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Nov. 18: Skirmish, Palmyra

MISSOURI--3d Cavalry (Detachment).

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Nov. 18: Affair at Price's Landing

Attack on Str. "Platte Valley."

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Nov. 20: Skirmish, Butler

MISSOURI--Cass County Home Guard Cavalry (Co's "A," "C").

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Nov. 20: Skirmish, Little Santa Fe

KANSAS--7th Cavalry.

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Nov. 21: Affair at Warsaw

Destruction of U. S. Stores.

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Nov. 24: Skirmish, Lancaster

MISSOURI--21st Infantry. Union loss, 1 killed, 2 wounded. Total, 3.

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Nov. 24: Skirmish, Johnstown

MISSOURI--Cass County Home Guard Cavalry.

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Nov. 26: Skirmish, Independence, Little Blue

KANSAS--7th Cavalry.

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Nov. 29: Skirmish, Black Walnut Creek, Sedalia

MISSOURI--4th Cavalry (Detachment). Union loss, 15 wounded.

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Nov. 30: Skirmish, Grand River

MISSOURI--Cass County Home Guard Cavalry.

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Dec. 1: Skirmish, Shanghai

OHIO--39th Infantry.

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Dec. 8: Skirmish, Salem

MISSOURI--Bowen's Battalion Cavalry. Union loss, 4 killed, 8 wounded. Total, 12.

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Dec. 3-12: Scout through Saline County

MISSOURI--2d Cavalry. UNITED STATES--Detachment of Cavalry. Union loss, 6 killed, 10 wounded. Total, 16.

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Dec. 4: Skirmish, Dunksburg

Citizens.

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Dec. 5-9: Expedition through Current Hills

MISSOURI--Bowen's 1st Battalion Cavalry.

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Dec. 9: Skirmish, Union Mills

(No Reports.)

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Dec. 11: Skirmish, Bertrand

ILLINOIS--2d Cavalry. Union loss, 1 killed.

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Dec. 13: Skirmish, Charleston

ILLINOIS--2d Cavalry.

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Dec. 15-19: Expedition to Milford

INDIANA--8th, 18th, 22d and 24th Infantry. IOWA--1st Cavalry; 8th Infantry. KANSAS--1st Infantry. MISSOURI--1st, 2d and 7th Cavalry; Battery "F" 1st Light Arty. OHIO--27th Infantry. UNITED STATES--4th Cavalry (Co's "B," "C," "D").

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Dec. 18: Scout to Houston

(No Details.)

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Dec. 18: Action, Shawnee Mound, or Milford Blackwater Creek

INDIANA--8th, 18th, 22d and 24th Infantry. IOWA--1st Cavalry; 8th Infantry. KANSAS--1st Infantry. MISSOURI--1st, 2d and 7th Cavalry; Battery "F" 1st Light Arty. OHIO--27th Infantry. UNITED STATES--4th Cavalry (Co's "B," "C," "D"). Union loss, 2 killed, 8 wounded. Total, 10.

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Dec. 19: Skirmish, Blackwater

IOWA--1st Cavalry.

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Dec. 21: Skirmish, Hudson

MISSOURI--7th Cavalry (Detachment). Union loss, 5 wounded.

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Dec. 23: Exp. to Lexington

(No Details.)

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Dec. 23: Expedition to Danville

OHIO--81st Infantry. MISSOURI--12th Infantry.

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Dec. 23: Skirmish, Dayton

MISSOURI--Cass County Home Guard Cavalry.

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Dec. 24: Skirmish, Wadesburg

MISSOURI--Cass County Home Guard Cavalry. Union loss, 1 killed, 2 wounded. Total, 3.

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Dec. 27: Skirmish near Hallsville

MISSOURI--3d Cavalry.

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Dec. 28: Action, Mount Zion Church

MISSOURI--3d Cavalry; 14th Infantry (Birge's S. S). Union loss, 5 killed, 63 wounded. Total, 68.

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Dec. 29: Descent on Commerce

(No Reports.)