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Key facts about Confederate Major General Sterling Price's Expedition into Missouri in 1864.

In August 1864, Major General Sterling Price led the Confederate Army of Missouri on an unsuccessful raid into Missouri and Kansas with aims of bolstering Confederate influence in the West, diverting Union troops away from the Eastern Theater, and damaging U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s reelection ambitions.

Part of the failed Red River Campaign (March 10–May 22, 1864), the Camden Expedition was a fruitless foray into southwestern Arkansas that cost Union forces 2,750 casualties but did nothing to end Confederate control of the area.

The Army of Missouri was a 12,000-man Confederate force commanded by Major General Sterling Price during a failed expedition into Missouri in the autumn of 1864.

Key facts about the Army of the Trans-Mississippi Department.

The last major Southern force to surrender at the end of the American Civil War, the Army of the Trans-Mississippi Department embodied the troops assigned to the Trans-Mississippi Department.

Key facts about the Second Battle of Lexington, fought on October 19, 1864,

Key facts about the Battle of Fort Davidson, fought on September 26-27, 1864.

Basic facts about the Union Army of the Border, which battled Major General Sterling Price's Army of Missouri during Price's Missouri Expedition of 1864.

Union Major General Samuel Curtis organized the Army of the Border to confront Confederate Major General Sterling Price's Army of Missouri as it marauded through Missouri during October 1864.

Kirby Smith was one of seven full generals in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He was also the Confederacy's last full general to pass away.

The Battle of Jenkins' Ferry (aka Engagement at Jenkins’ Ferry), was the final engagement of the Camden Expedition in 1864.

At the Battle of Marks' Mill (aka Action at Marks’ Mills), Confederate soldiers captured "a large number" of blacks and pro-Union Arkansans who they subsequently "inhumanly butchered."

Following the Battle of Poison Spring, Confederate soldiers shot, bayoneted, and scalped the defenseless wounded and captive black soldiers of the 1st Kansas (Colored) Infantry Regiment.

Also known as the Skirmish at Prairie D’Ane, Battle of Gum Springs, or Battle of Moscow, the Battle of Prairie D'Ane was the second major engagement of the Camden Expedition in 1864.

The Battle of Elkin's Ferry (aka Engagement at Elkin's Ferry), was the first major engagement of the Camden Expedition in 1864.

Key facts about the Second Battle of Newtonia, which was fought on October 28, 1864, during the Civil War.

Key facts about the Battle of Mine Creek, the largest Civil War conflict fought in Kansas, and one of the larger cavalry engagements of the war.

Key facts about the Battle of Westport, which was fought on October 23, 1864, during the Civil War.

Fought on October 28, 1864, the Second Battle of Newtonia was the eighth and final major engagement during Price's Missouri Expedition of 1864.