Lumir F. Buresh, October 25th and the Battle of Mine Creek, 1st Ed.

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October 25th and the Battle of Mine Creek by Lumir Buresh is a scarce book about an unknown Civil War battle with surprisingly decisive outcomes.

In the last week of October 1864, General Sterling Price’s campaign to redeem Missouri for the Confederacy was falling apart fast. After a surprisingly effective beginning where Price and his cavalry invaded and occupied large parts of Missouri for over two months – this at a time when Confederate fortunes were fading fast elsewhere – Union forces combined to defeat him at the Battle of Westport on October 23. Two days later, as Price attempted to escape through Kansas, Union General Alfred Pleasonton caught up with him and virtually destroyed the Confederate army in an astonishingly lopsided battle.

Mine Creek was the only major battle between regularly enlisted Union and Confederate forces in the State of Kansas. It was also the largest entirely mounted battle in the Trans-Mississippi war. Finally, it is one of a small handful of Civil War battles that resulted in a fully decisive victory by one side over the other.

Lumir Buresh’s history, ably edited and published by Dan L. Smith, is the only fulsome study of this fascinating chapter of the war in the West.

Lightly gouged on front board; else near fine in dust jacket.

Buresh, Lumir. October 25th and the Battle of Mine Creek. Edited by Dan Smith. 1st edition, 265p., illustrations, maps, folding map, maps on end pages.