A Better Big Blue Battlefield in Kansas City | Part III

By | November 13, 2024
A view of the Big Blue battlefield now that parks and recreation has cleared it.

Editor’s note: This is the final installment of a three-part series on the restoration of the Big Blue Battlefield in Kansas City, Missouri. The engagement on the Big Blue Battlefield was pivotal in the larger Battle of Westport, an October 1864 clash that effectively ended organized Confederate military operations in Missouri. As the years receded,…

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A Better Big Blue Battlefield | Part I

By | October 30, 2024
Among those dedicating new interpretation panels during an October 3 ceremony at the Byram’s Ford Battlefield near Swope Park were (from left) U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, Kansas City Mayor Pro Tem and Fifth District Council Member Ryana Parks-Shaw, Kansas City Parks and Recreation Director Chris Cotten, and Fifth District at Large City Council member Darrell Curls.

Editor’s note: This is the first installment of a three-part series on the restoration of the Big Blue Battlefield in Kansas City, Missouri. It was cold for late October in Kansas City. In 1864 Lt. Patrick Henry Minor, then leading an artillery battery against Confederate forces, would die the following March, from what likely had…

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