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Price's line disintegrates "like a row of bricks" at Mine Creek
Three battles in one day along the Kansas-Missouri line leave two Confederate generals and six cannon in Union hands.
By dawn on October 25, 1864, Sterling Price's Confederate Army of Missouri was in full retreat. Alfred Pleasonton's Union cavalry hit the Confederates three times before nightfall: first at Marais des Cygnes, where a pre-dawn assault seized two cannon but let Price slip across a swollen river; then at Mine Creek, where a charge that witnesses said came on "like a thunderbolt" and broke the Confederate line "like a row of bricks," capturing roughly 600 men and two generals; then at Marmiton River, where John McNeil's troops skirmished with a Confederate force that was, by then, largely unarmed. Price kept retreating south, but his campaign to retake Missouri was over…
