October 23, 1864 Battle of Westport, the "Gettysburg of the West."
When in the late summer of 1864 a force of some twelve thousand soldiers under the command of Confederate major general Sterling Price were sent to capture the state of Missouri for the Confederacy, it represented a real threat to the Union.
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