The Battle of Westport (Missouri): Major General Samuel R. Curtis, commanding the compulsory Union Army of the Border, defeats the Confederate (a voluntary union) Army of Missouri, commanded by Major General Sterling Price.
NOTE: About 3,000 Americans lost their lives, in a battle that saw the end of Confederate resistance west of the Mississippi River.
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 184.
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