Battle of Byram's Ford
1864 CE.
Shown on the map at 39.023°, -94.531°.
The Battle of Byram's Ford, also known as the Battle of Big Blue River and the Battle of the Blue, was fought on October 22 and 23, 1864, in Jackson County, Missouri during Price's Missouri Expedition, a campaign of the American Civil War. With the Confederacy on the verge of collapse, Confederate Major General Sterling Price conducted an invasion of Missouri in the fall of 1864. When Union forces led Price to abandon his objective of capturing St. Louis, he turned west. On October 22, Price's army found itself caught between two Union forces, commanded by Major Generals James G. Blunt and Alfred Pleasonton. Part of Price's force conducted a delaying action against Pleasonton in the Second Battle of Independence, while the division of Brigadier General Joseph O. Shelby broke Blunt's line at Byram's Ford on the Big Blue River by crossing at an unguarded ford above the Union defenses. The Union defenders were forced to retreat to the Kansas state line, and the 2nd Kansas State Militia Infantry Regiment was caught at the Mockbee Farm and overwhelmed.
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