Second Battle of Lexington
1864 CE.
Shown on the map at 39.183°, -93.875°.
The Second Battle of Lexington was a minor battle fought during Price's Missouri Expedition as part of the American Civil War. Hoping to draw Union Army forces away from more important theaters of combat and potentially affect the outcome of the 1864 United States presidential election, Sterling Price, a major general in the Confederate States Army, led an offensive into the state of Missouri on September 19, 1864. After a botched attack at the Battle of Pilot Knob, the strength of the Union defenses at Jefferson City led Price to abandon the main goals of his campaign. In response to the Confederate incursion, the Union Army of the Border under Major General Samuel R. Curtis was formed by withdrawing troops from duty guarding isolated settlements along the western frontier and calling up the Kansas militia. The call-up of the militia became a political issue in Kansas, which restricted Curtis's use of the militiamen. Price's army was moving west along the Missouri River, and was caught between Curtis's Army of the Border and Union Department of the Missouri cavalry pursuing from the east. Major General James G.
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