Harrisonville Road (Prospect) - Kansas City, Mo.
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N 39° 00.409 W 094° 33.452
15S E 365139 N 4318686
This marker is located at the southeast corner of Meyer Boulevard and Wabash on the grounds of the Research College of Nursing. This is Stop 15 of the Battle of Westport Tour.
Waymark Code: WM8DEF
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 03/16/2010
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Text of the Marker:
This was the main road to Harrisonville. Fagan’s Confederate Division was posted here at noon on Oct.23, 1864. At daylight that day Gen. Price’s huge wagon train moved south on this road. After his defeat at Byram’s Ford Gen. Marmaduke retreated south following Price’s column. Gen. Fagan was reinforced by Jackman’s Brigade. They faced east. Sanborn of Pleasonton’s Div. attacked them but was driven back but he and Benteen then drove them to the south and west.
Information from the Civil War Muse:
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On the morning of Sunday, October 23, 1864, Price had sent his column of 600 wagons and 3,000 head of cattle south from Independence, Missouri. Price left Brigadier General William L. Cabell's Brigade to guard the wagon train along with several thousand unarmed recruits that the Confederates had picked up along the way. The wagon train slowly went down Harrisonville Road on its way towards Little Santa Fe.