From the American Battlefield Trust 2022 Calendar.
WILSON'S CREEK, Mo.
278 acres saved.
More than 2,500 Union and Confederate soldiers were killed, wounded, missing or captured after the Battle of Wilson's Creek on August 10, 1861, in the first major battle west of the Mississippi River.
The Trust and its partners, including the Wilson's Creek National Battlefield Foundation and Ozark Greenways Incorporated, have preserved 278 acres of the battlefield near Springfield in southwest Missouri.
--Old Secesh
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