In memory of those who gave the ultimate sacrifice at the Battle of Moore's Mill July 28, 1862 USA
9th MO Cavalry MSM John Richard Baker (K)
Co F 9th MO Cavalry MSM Pvt Lewis Snowden •(K)
Co I Merrills Horse Pvt John H . . . — — Map (db m212624) WM
Old Auxvasse Presbyterian is one of the oldest congregations west of the Mississippi. But this hill on which the congregation first met in 1828 in a log church earlier hosted travelers along the Trial, some of whom likely were buried here before the . . . — — Map (db m216974) HM
Here on the afternoon of July 28, 1862, some 400 recruits and guerrillas from north Missouri led by Colonel Joseph C. Porter, C.S.A., ambushed 730 Union troops under Colonel Odon Guitar of the Ninth Missouri Cavalry. After several hours of fierce . . . — — Map (db m207952) HM
The July 28, 1862, Battle of Moore's Mill opened about one-eighth mile south along the Moore's Mill-Galbreath Mill road, near today's State Road JJ. This area then was heavily timbered.
Lying in ambush east of the road were about 260 . . . — — Map (db m207957) HM
Combat Operations at Moore's Mill
Pursued by more than 700 mounted troops under Union Col. Odon Guitar about 260 Confederate horsemen under Col. Joseph C. Porter enter the vicinity of Moore's Mill (now Calwood) on Monday morning, July . . . — — Map (db m207958) HM
Due to the heat and decomposition of the bodies the day after the battle, Union Col. Oden Guitar ordered a mass grave dug.
Elijah Hopper of Co. F, 9th Missouri Militia, stated in a 1908 letter, "We collected our dead - both sides - after the . . . — — Map (db m207959) HM
