Getting Lost on a Civil War Battlefield
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Getting Lost on a Civil War Battlefield
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How Soldiers, Map Makers, and Historians Have Wrestled with the Battles of the Big Blue and Westport
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Detailed analysis on the history of mapping the areas of the Battle of Big Blue and the Battle of Westport. Both battles took place in October 1864 during Confederate Major General Sterling Price's Missouri campaign. Map-making during the Civil War was difficult in the best of circumstances, but the first commissioned map of the battles by civilian topographical engineer Lyman G. Bennet contained a number of inaccuracies which were repeated and/or exacerbated in later maps, making it difficult to find precisely where the events occurred.
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Creator: Sinisi, Kyle
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2012
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Journal of the West
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Article contains images of eight different maps of the battles of Big Blue and Westport.
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Periodicals
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Restriction on Access
This document is not available online. You may come to the Missouri Valley Room to view it or request a photocopy from the Library's Document Delivery service. http://www.kclibrary.org/copy-requests
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