The Battle of Wilson's Creek - Bull Run of The West: American Civil War - Part 2

In the first episode of our series about the Trans Mississippi theater of the American civil war, we looked at the start of the war in Missouri and how the two sides finally clashed in the battles around Boonville and Carthage. In this episode we will finally see how the two armies meet for a full scale battle at Wilson's Creek.
This is our second video on the channel, and part 2 in our series. The next episode will follow the winter campaign of 61/62 and see the lead up to the battle of Pea Ridge.
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We have put a lot of effort into researching this topic, and if you are interested to learn more yourself, here are our sources for the video:
Cutrer, Thomas W., Ben McCulloch and the Frontier Military Tradition, University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
Knapp, George E., Wilson’s Creek Staff Ride And Battlefield Tour [Illustrated Edition], Pickle Partners Publishing, 2014
Knight, James R., The Battle of Pea Ridge: The Civil War Fight for the Ozarks - Civil War Series, Arcadia Publishing, 2012.
Luebbering, Dr. Ken, Missouri State Archives Presentation Videos - I Goes to Fight mit Siegel: Missouri's Germans and the Civil War Video Transcript, 2008, www.sos.mo.gov... [14.09.21]
National Parks Service - The Battle of Wilson's Creek - Stories, www.nps.gov/wi... [16.09.21]
Smith, Sam, Moments in Time - Wilson's Creek, Introduction - Part V, www.battlefiel... [22.08.21]
The Civil War Muse - Skirmish at Dug Springs, www.thecivilwar... [02.09.21]
Historic Missourians - Claiborne Fox Jackson, historicmissou... [05.09.21]

[@ZZZELCH]

Sincerely well done.
From the great State of Missouri.

[@Thatdude618]

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[@TheJoeboy94]

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[@infinitelightcouncil]

Beautifully done- I grew up in Oregon County in the 70s. Some of the old people then still called it The Battle of Oak Hills- my great grandfather was a toddler during that battle and claimed he remembered the windows rattling- they were about a mile from the fighting

[@williamnapier1516]

Where is Oregon County?

[@infinitelightcouncil]

@@williamnapier1516 Deep Ozarks Southern Missouri directly on the Arkansas border. Not much there now. But the ancestor I spoke of was an infant over by Springfield.

[@timmylee41]

Nice presentation, the summary of the aftermath was great.

[@WendyDaCanuck]

Great video!

[@stoppotsstabbats]

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[@TheJoeboy94]

Hurry up 28th I want to see the action!

[@onceuponapriori]

Fantastic videos, thank you!

[@koletrane1286]

Thank You for this bit of Missouri History.

[@pmcclaren1]

that REBEL YELL sounding 'victory' once again; troops from MO, AR, TX & LA; all brave CONFEDERATE Warriors!

[@johndcornell6341]

So who wound up winning the war???

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Great vid! And that goes for the rest of them 2! Great content! Godbless

[@outdoorlife5396]

Well one thing is for sure, the Confederates had the Federals, outnumbered, one of the few times in the CW. That said, the Confederates won, they held the field. Kind of like the Federals held the field at Antietam. Heavey loses both sides.

[@justmehello5543]

my kin fought in the Slaybacks for Price and Shelby.

[@c1v1c59]

how Do you claim victory if you fled the field

[@jamesorth6460]

McCulloch won't be so lucky at the Battle of Elkhorn Tavern the following year

[@jacksonguillory8114]

This guy sound like that guy in the wheelchair from family guy
Edit: decent video tho

[@gyrospinup]

The people around Springfield were not mostly pro union as you state. They had family involuntarily on both sides. Brothers fighting brothers. The union and conferates would stop at farms and give the option to join or die. Most Ozarkians were too poor to have slaves and the ground was too rocky for plantations and wanted to stay neutral as Lincoln had said they could. After being lied to and with the Kansas/Missouri border war still in recent memory, they tended to side with the confederacy. Springfield had no choice but to be friendly with whichever side came through town. If one homestead was for one side and their neighbor was for the other, they never knew since nobody spoke of being for either, knowing that neighbors would be against neighbors.