The Joplin Globe

The Joplin Globe Newspaper In Education

Carthage, Missouri
July 5, 1861
Estimated Casualties: 244 total (US 44; CS 200)
Description: The New York Times called it, “The first serious conflict between the United States troops and the rebels.”
Confederate victory

Links

http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/abpp/battles/mo002.htm

http://americancivilwar.com/statepic/mo/mo002.html

http://www.bartonpara.com/civilwar/battles/carthage.htm

http://home.usmo.com/~momollus/Mocwlink.htm

http://www.geocities.com/battleofcarthage/

http://blueandgraytrail.com/battles/Missouri

http://www.mycivilwar.com/battles/610705.htm

Principal Commanders

Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon

http://www.lyoncamp.org/lyon.htm

http://www.nps.gov/archive/wicr/lyon.html

http://www.multied.com/bio/UGENS/USAKLyon.html

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/county/stlouis/lyon.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Lyon

Brigadier General Franz Sigel

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USACWsigel.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Sigel

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/county/stlouis/sigel.htm

http://stonewall.hut.ru/leaders/sigel.htm

Missouri Governor Claiborne Fox Jackson

http://press.umsystem.edu/spring2000/phillips.htm

http://www.nps.gov/archive/peri/jackson.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.