The Battle of Wilson’s Creek/Oak Hills (Missouri): Major General Sterling Price, of the Missouri State Guard, commanding the Militias of Missouri and Arkansas, defeats the compulsory Union Army of the West, commanded by Major General Franz Siegel.
NOTE: Siegel was a “forty-eighter” (exiled proto-communist, German revolutionary).
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 285.
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 166.
Chronology Of The American Civil War
civilwarhome.com/timeline.htm
The Battle of Wilson’s Creek – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Wilson’s_Creek
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