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At 8 A. M. on October 23, 1864, Federal cavalry under General Alfred E. Pleasonton forced a crossing of the Blue River at Byram’s Ford and attacked the stone ridge defended by Confederate troops under John S. Marmaduke. After 3 hours of heavy fighting and severe casualties, the hill was taken. Marmaduke’s defeat enabled Pleasonton to outflank General Sterling Price’s Confederate Army and contributed to General Samuel S. Curtis’s Union victory at the Battle of Westport.
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