Missouri State Guard

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Establishment

• May 1861: The Missouri State Guard (MSG) was a military force established by the Missouri General Assembly on May 11, 1861.

Chronology

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1. American Civil War

Was a civil war in the United States of America between the central government (Unionists) and the secessionist Confederate States of America that occupied the southern States. The main cause of the war was the different economic system of the northern and southern states: the northern states were industrialized and had abolished slavery, whereas the southern states relied on slavery to run its plantation agriculture based economy. At the end of the war the Union occupied the southern states and slavery was abolished. .

1.1. Trans-Mississippi Theatre

Was the theatre of war west of the Mississippi River during the American Civil War.

1.1.1. Missouri Front (American Civil War)

Were a series of battles between the Missouri State Guard and the Union during the American Civil War.

• May 1861: The Missouri State Guard (MSG) was a military force established by the Missouri General Assembly on May 11, 1861.
• July 1861: Union troop maneuver preceding the Battle of Carthage.
• August 1861: Confederate troop retreat after the Battle of Carthage.
• August 1861: Union troop maneuver preceding the Battle of Wilson's Creek or Oak Hills.
• September 1861: Union troop retreat after the Battle of Wilson's Creek or Oak Hills.
• September 1861: Union troop maneuver preceding the First Battle of Lexington. Union forces badly defeated by Missouri State Guard.
• October 1861: Union troop retreat after the First Battle of Lexington.
• October 1861: Battle of Fredericktown: Union victory.
• October 1861: First Battle of Springfield. Union forces capture town.
• October 1861: A splinter government in Neosho, Missouri, declared the secession of the state from the United States.

1.2. Western Theatre of the American Civil War

The western theater of the American Civil War encompassed major military operations in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, Kentucky, South Carolina and Tennessee, as well as Louisiana east of the Mississippi River.

• August 1861: Confederate troop maneuver preceding the Battle of Athens. Union victory in small skirmish on the Iowa-Missouri border
• September 1861: Confederate troop retreat after the Battle of Athens.

Disestablishment

• October 1861: A splinter government in Neosho, Missouri, declared the secession of the state from the United States.

Selected Sources

• Beers, Henry Putney (1986). The Confederacy: A Guide to the Archives of the Government of the Confederate States of America. Washington, DC: NARA. p. 329
• Jones, T.L. (2011): Historical Dictionary of the Civil War, Volume 1, Scarecrow Press, p. 546
• List of American Civil War battles. Wikipedia. Retrieved on 31 March 2024 on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_Civil_War_battles
• Secession Ordinances of 13 Confederate States. University of Houston. Retrieved on 4 April 2024 on https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=3953