The Battle of Kirksville & The Battle of Vassar Hill

by Kent Bergstrand

Ms Collection B3

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Record Class: Text, photographs
Date: 1975
Creator: Kent Bergstrand
Provenance: Class paper submitted to Dr. David March, Oct. 17, 1975
Extent: 0.2 linear feet
Organization: Subject
Language: English
Repository: Special Collections Department, Pickler Memorial Library, Truman State University
Access: Open
Processed by: Cheryl Musch
Abstract: Kent Bergstrand, a student at Northeast Missouri State University (now Truman State University), wrote The Battle of Kirksville and the Battle of Vassar Hill as a class term paper and submitted it to Dr David March, Professor of History on Oct 17, 1975. In August 1862, a skirmish broke out in Kirksville, Missouri, between Confederate troops led by Colonel Joseph Porter and Union troops under the direction of Colonel John McNeil. This paper is 79 pages of text, maps and photographs relating to the two battles and associated events and people. The color photographs are of Kirksville, Vassar Hill and other Adair County sites connected with the battles as they appeared at the time the paper was written in 1975.
Keywords: Civil War, Missouri, Battle of Kirksville, Battle of Vassar Hill

Binder includes the following topics:
- The Battle of Kirksville
- Corporal Harvey Dix
- Jim Dye
- Lt. Col. Frisby Henderson McCullough
- The Battle of Vassar Hill        

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