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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
Prairie
Grove (Fayetteville)
December 7, 1862
Estimated Casualties: 2,568 total (US 1,251;
CS 1,317)
Description: After a day’s fighting,
neither side had won, but the Confederate force retreated
to Van Buren, establishing Federal control of northwest Arkansas.
Union strategic victory
Newtonia
II
October 28, 1864
Estimated Casualties: 650 total (US 400;
CS 250)
Description: The Union troops forced the
Confederates to retreat but failed to destroy or capture them.
It is considered the last major battle of the Trans-Mississippi.
Union victory
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