Battle of Springfield

At this point in the Battle of Springfield, Confederate forces reached their farthest advance into the city after routing the 72nd Enrolled Missouri Militia. As the Confederates formed along Walnut Street for a final assault into the city, drums along Jordan Creek to the north signaled a new Union counterattack. Colonel Henry Sheppard and militia Brigadier General C.B. Holland rallied the 72nd, while companies of the 3rd and 4th Missouri State Militia and five companies of the 18th Iowa engaged the Confederate left flank. These counterattacks drove the Confederates back across the ground they had just taken, and the 72nd did not retreat again during the battle.

Springfield, Missouri · United States