Battlefield Dispatches No. 283: 'Battle of the Hemp Bales'

Friday, September 23, 2011

On Sept. 20, 1861, Confederate Maj. Gen. Sterling Price, commanding a large army comprised of the Missouri State Guard, accepted the surrender of the Union "Missourians" who had occupied the city and surrounding hills of Lexington, Mo.

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