Battle of Moore's Mill

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Battle of Moore's Mill
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Began:

July 28, 1862

Ended:

Same day

Location:

Callaway County, Missouri

Theater:

Trans-Mississippi Theater

Campaign:

Missouri Operations North of Boston Mountains

Outcome:

Union victory

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Combatants
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9th Missouri State Militia Cavalry
3rd Indiana Battery
3rd Iowa Cavalry

Blackfoot Rangers
Cobb's guerrillas

Commanders

Odon Guitar
Colonel, Missouri State Militia

Joseph C. Porter
Colonel, CSA

Strength

733

260-350

Casualties

40
Killed: 19
Wounded: 21

130-160
Killed: 30-60
Wounded: 100

  

Contents

Order of battle

Union

  • Guitar's Column
9th Missouri State Militia Cavalry (Companies E, F, G, H, about 100 men); Colonel Odon Guitar
3rd Indiana Battery (1 section: two 6-pounder guns, 32 men); Lt. Adolphus G. Armington
3rd Iowa Cavalry (Companies E, F, G, H; 133 men); Maj. Henry C. Caldwell
  • Shaffer’s Column
2nd Missouri Cavalry "Merrill's Horse" (Companies A, C, E, F, G, H, I, K; 306 men); Lt. Col. W.F. Shaffer
10th Missouri State Militia Cavalry (Companies B, D; 120 men)
Independent Cavalry, "Red Rovers" (38 men); Capt. Hiram A. Rice (later Co. I, 10th MSM Cavalry)[1]

Confederate

  • 1st Northeast Missouri Cavalry (about 125 men); Col. Joseph C. Porter
  • Blackfoot Rangers (65 men); Lt. John Bowles
  • Cobb’s Guerrillas (75 men); Capt. Alvin Cobb[2]

References

  1. Erroneously written as "Daniel Rice" in the Official Records index , corrected in supplement
  2. Banasik, Michael E, Embattled Arkansas: The Prairie Grove Campaign of 1862, Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1996, page 127
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