Kansas City and the Civil War

Kansas City, Missouri, was surprisingly quiet during the Civil War, although there was considerable activity in Lafayette County to the east; Lawrence, Kansas to the west; and in October 1864, a near-miss came its way in "The Battle of Westport," when Confederate General Sterling Price's 30,000 man army was defeated on the city's then-outskirts and was diverted to the south, back to Arkansas. From Jonathan B. Fuller to Dear Father | Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas... civilwaronthewesternborder.org