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Baxter Springs, Kansas (Baxter Springs Massacre)
October 6, 1863
Estimated Casualties: 106 total (US 103; CS 3)
Description: After conducting many raids in Kansas, including the massacre at Lawrence, William Clarke Quantrill attacked a post in Baxter Springs, and then a Union column approaching the area. Touted as a massacre by some, Baxter Springs was another of the events that characterized the vicious Kansas-Missouri border warfare.
Confederate victory

Links

http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/abpp/battles/ks002.htm

http://ehistory.osu.edu/world/BattleView.Cfm?BID=544

http://blueandgraytrail.com/state/Kansas

http://americancivilwar.com/statepic/ks/ks002.html

http://www.vintage-visuals.com/bf_BaxterSprings.html

Principal Commanders

Lieutenant James B. Pond [US]

http://www.clements.umich.edu/Webguides/NP/Pond.html

http://www.medalofhonor.com/JamesBurtonPond.htm

http://www.pddoc.com/skedaddle/010/0086.htm

http://www.wlhn.org/james_pond/commemorating_heroism.htm

Brigadier General James G. Blunt [US]

http://www.curledup.com/genblunt.htm

http://www.geocities.com/civil_war_anderson/GeneralJamesBlunt.html

http://www.pddoc.com/skedaddle/010/0083.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_G._Blunt

Lieutenant Colonel William C. Quantrill [CS]

http://www.pddoc.com/skedaddle/010/0087.htm

http://americancivilwar.com/statepic/ks/ks002.html

http://www.mycivilwar.com/leaders/quantrill_william.htm

Other Battles in Missouri, Kansas & Arkansas

1. Carthage	4. Pea Ridge (Elkhorn Tavern)	7. Springfield II
2. Wilson’s Creek (Oak Hills)	5. Newtonia I	8. Baxter Springs (Baxter Springs Massacre)
3. Springfield I (Zagonyi’s Charge)	6. Prairie Grove (Fayetteville)	9. Newtonia II

Civil war artifacts pictured here can be seen at the Carthage Civil War Museum and the
Jasper County Courthouse in Carthage, MO.