The Battle of Baxter Springs, sometimes called the Baxter Springs Massacre, was a minor battle of the American Civil War, fought on October 6, 1863, near the modern-day town of Baxter Springs, Kansas. In late 1863, the guerrilla band of Quantrill's Raiders travelled south from Kansas along the Texas Road to winter in Texas. Numbering about 400, this group captured and killed two Union (American Civil War) teamsters who had come from small Federal Army post called Fort Blair. Quantrill decided to attack Fort Blair and divided his force into two columns, one under him and the other commanded by a subordinate, David Poole. Poole and his men proceeded down the Texas Road, where they encountered Union soldiers, most of whom were African Americans. They chased and attacked the Union troops, killing some of them before they reached the earth and log fort. Poole's column then attacked Fort Blair, but the garrison fought them off with the aid of a howitzer. Quantrill's column moved on the post from another direction and happened to encounter a Union detachment escorting Major General James G. Blunt as he was in the process of moving his command headquarters from Fort Scott to Fort Smith. Most of this detachment, including the military band and Maj. Henry Z. Curtis (son of Maj. Gen. Samuel R. Curtis), was killed, but Blunt and a few mounted men escaped and returned to Fort Scott. Blunt was removed from command for failing to protect his column, but he was soon restored. Touted as a massacre by some, Baxter Springs was another of the events that characterized the vicious Kansas-Missouri border warfare. ==See Also== *Battle of Lawrence ==References== [http://www2.cr.nps.gov/abpp/battles/ks002.htm Civil War Sites Advisory Commission Battle Summary] Battles of the Occupation of Indian Territory North of the Arkansas River of the American Civil War Massacres of the American Civil War Kansas history Cherokee County, Kansas Confederate victories of the American Civil War
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The Battle of Baxter Springs, sometimes called the Baxter Springs Massacre, was a minor battle of the American Civil War, fought on October 6, 1863, near the modern-day town of Baxter Springs, Kansas. In late 1863, the guerrilla band of Quantrill's Raiders travelled south from Kansas along the Texas Road to winter in Texas. Numbering about 400, this group captured and killed two Union (American Civil War) teamsters who had come from small Federal Army post called Fort Blair. Quantrill decided to attack Fort Blair and divided his force into two columns, one under him and the other commanded by a subordinate, David Poole. Poole and his men proceeded down the Texas Road, where they encountered Union soldiers, most of whom were African Americans. They chased and attacked the Union troops, killing some of them before they reached the earth and log fort. Poole's column then attacked Fort Blair, but the garrison fought them off with the aid of a howitzer. Quantrill's column moved on the post from another direction and happened to encounter a Union detachment escorting Major General James G. Blunt as he was in the process of moving his command headquarters from Fort Scott to Fort Smith. Most of this detachment, including the military band and Maj. Henry Z. Curtis (son of Maj. Gen. Samuel R. Curtis), was killed, but Blunt and a few mounted men escaped and returned to Fort Scott. Blunt was removed from command for failing to protect his column, but he was soon restored. Touted as a massacre by some, Baxter Springs was another of the events that characterized the vicious Kansas-Missouri border warfare. ==See Also== *Battle of Lawrence ==References== [http://www2.cr.nps.gov/abpp/battles/ks002.htm Civil War Sites Advisory Commission Battle Summary] Battles of the Occupation of Indian Territory North of the Arkansas River of the American Civil War Massacres of the American Civil War Kansas history Cherokee County, Kansas Confederate victories of the American Civil War
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