rivrrat
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Today marks two significant events in the Western Theater and the Trans Mississippi.
September 19, 1863 was the first day of the Battle of Chickamauga, a serious setback for Union forces in Tennessee. Among the fallen that day was Sergeant Warren Hamilton, 35th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, my Great Great Uncle.
Today also marks the beginning of Sterling Price’s 1864 invasion of Missouri. An attempt to bring Missouri into the Confederate fold, doomed from the start, but an amazing effort for so few with so little. It would see, among others, the Battle of Westport Missouri the Gettysburg of the West, and the Battle of Mine Creek the only Civil War battle between “Uniformed Troops” in Kansas during the war.
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