Missourians side with the Union by a…

March 1862 CE

Missourians side with the Union by a ratio of two or three to one, despite it's being a slave state with a highly organized and militant secessionist movement, thanks to the pro-slavery "border ruffians" who battled antislavery militias in Kansas in the 1850s.

Pro-Confederate Governor Claiborne F. Jackson and his small state guard under General Sterling Price had linked up with Confederate forces under General Ben McCulloch.

After victories at the Battle of Wilson's Creek and at Lexington, Missouri, Confederate forces had been driven out of the state by the arrival of large Union forces in February 1862 and are effectively locked out by defeat at the Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, on March 6–8.

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Pea Ridge Benton Arkansas United States View →

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Benjamin McCulloch View → Claiborne Fox Jackson View → Sterling Price 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 →

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American Civil War (War between the States, War of the Rebellion, War of Secession, War for Southern Independence) View → Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War View → Pea Ridge, Battle of View →

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