Search for the Federal Retreat Route at the Battle of Oak Hills at Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield in Southern Missouri

Summary

This is an abstract from the "New and Emerging Geophysical and Geospatial Research in the National Parks" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

On August 10, 1861, Federal forces under Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon and Confederate forces under Brigadier General Ben McCulloch and Major General Sterling Price were engaged in a six-hour fight on the rolling hills surrounding Willson’s Creek in Greene and Christian Counties in southern Missouri. Following the death of their leader, with the ammunition and water running low, Federal troops retreated along the Wire Road to Little York Road on their way back to Springfield. Magnetic and metal detector investigations in an 32 ha (80-acre) hayfield southwest of the main battle yielded several bullets, buttons, and horseshoes associated with the skirmish along the retreat route near the Guinn farm site.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• New and Emerging Geophysical and Geospatial Research in the National Parks   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 39001.0