Within two hours, Colonel David Moore's pro-Union Home Guard claimed victory over Colonel Martin Green's pro-secessionist State Guard. After a short pursuit, Moore's men returned to care for their 23 casualties, and that afternoon the State Guard returned under a flag of truce to reclaim about 31 casualties. A month later, Green and his men fought a Federal army in Lexington, Missouri, while Moore and his men later became part of the 21st Missouri Infantry. In October 1862, Green and Moore faced each other again at the Battle of Corinth in Mississippi, by which time both had become brigadier generals. Green was killed at Vicksburg, while Moore lost a leg at Shiloh, survived the war, and settled in Canton, Missouri. Athens continued to thrive for a time as the mill on the river ground grain and businesses prospered, but a new railroad route bypassed the town and removed the need for river traffic, and by 1900 the town was nearly gone. Bitter feelings between neighbors and families continued for decades throughout Missouri.