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.