Second Battle of Independence

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Price's Missouri Expedition
Fort Davidson – Glasgow – 2nd Lexington – Little Blue River – 2nd Independence – Byram's Ford – Westport – Marais des Cygnes – Mine Creek – Marmiton River – 2nd Newtonia

The Second Battle of Independence was a battle of the American Civil War, occurring on October 22, 1864 in Jackson County, Missouri.

Maj. Gen. Sterling Price’s army rode west in the direction of Kansas City. On the night of the 21st, he camped at Independence and resumed his westward march the next morning with Brig. Gen. Jo Shelby’s division in the lead followed by Brig. Gen. John S. Marmaduke’s division, with Brig. Gen. James Fagan’s division bringing up the rear. While Shelby’s men met success at Byram's Ford, the other two columns did not fare as well. Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton’s Union force crossed the Little Blue, beat up a Confederate brigade in Fagan’s command, and occupied Independence. Marmaduke’s division then met Pleasonton about two miles west of Independence, hit the Federals hard, pressed them back, and held them at bay until the morning of the 23rd. Pleasonton’s actions, however, frightened Price and his army, and influenced them, after they had crossed the Big Blue, to send their wagon trains to Little Santa Fe on the Fort Scott Road.

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Pre-War Missouri Compromise - Dred Scott Decision - Bleeding Kansas - Armed Neutrality - 1861: Missouri Constitutional Convention (1861-63) - Liberty Arsenal - St. Louis Arsenal - Camp Jackson Affair - Missouri State Guard - Price-Harney Truce - Grant's First Command - Governor on the Run - Battle of Boonville - Battle of Carthage (1861) - Gamble's Provisional Government - Battle of Athens - Battle of Wilson's Creek - Frémont Martial Law - Battle of Dry Wood Creek - Platte Bridge Railroad Tragedy - Sacking of Osceola - Battle of Lexington I - Battle of Liberty - Battle of Fredericktown - Missouri secession - Battle of Springfield I - Department of the Missouri - Battle of Belmont - Burning of Platte City - Battle of Mount Zion Church - 1862: Army of the West - Battle of Roan's Tan Yard - Battle of Island Number Ten - Battle of Kirksville - First Battle of Independence - Battle of Lone Jack - First Battle of Newtonia - Palmyra Massacre - Battle of Clark's Mill 1863: Battle of Springfield II - Battle of Hartville - Battle of Cape Girardeau - Battle of Chalk Bluff - General Order № 11 (1863) 1864: Centralia Massacre (Missouri) - Army of Missouri - Price's Raid - Battle of Fort Davidson - Battle of Glasgow- Battle of Lexington II - Battle of Little Blue River - Battle of Byram's Ford - Second Battle of Independence - Battle of Westport - Battle of Marmiton River - Battle of Newtonia II - Reconstruction - James-Younger gang


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