Federal forces in Linn County, Kansas, attack…

October 1864 CE

Federal forces in Linn County, Kansas, attack the retreating Confederate Army under Major General Sterling Price along the banks of Mine Creek on October 25, 1864 in one of the largest cavalry engagements of the war.

The only major engagement of the Civil War fought in Kansas, the battle ends the threat of a Southern invasion of that state.

Southern hopes for a Confederate-controlled Missouri plummet and William Quantrill's guerrilla band faces imminent destruction.

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Battle of Mine Creek Linn Kansas United States View →

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Sterling Price View → William Quantrill View →

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United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC) View → Missouri, State of (U.S.A.) View → Confederate States of America (C.S.A.) View → “Quantrill's Raiders” View → Kansas, State of (U.S.A.) View →

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American Civil War (War between the States, War of the Rebellion, War of Secession, War for Southern Independence) View → Quantrill's Raids View → Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War View → American Civil War & Reconstruction; 1864 through 1875 View → Price's Raid View →

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