Battle of Lone Jack
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The Battle of Lone Jack took place during the American Civil War on August 15–16, 1862 in Jackson County, Missouri. The battle was part of the Confederate guerrilla and recruiting campaign in Missouri
Hand-to Hand fight at Lone Jack (19th-century illustration of Younger Brothers story)
Thomas H. Brown, William Brown and Abe Brown, Confederate soldiers who fought at the Battle of Lone Jack
The Lone Jack battlefield in 2023. The monument to the left is for the Union troops, and the one to the right for the Confederates
Jeremiah V. Cockrell
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Jeremiah Vardaman Cockrell, also known as Vard Cockrell, was a U.S. Representative from Texas, after having served as a field commander in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He
Battle of Lone Jack
…to replenish the depleted ranks of the Trans-Mississippi Confederacy. In Western/West-Central Missouri these included then Captain Jo Shelby, Colonel Vard Cockrell, Colonel John T. Coffee, Upton Hays, John Charles Tracy, John T. Hughes, and DeWitt C. Hunter. Most of these commands were working independently and…
Cockrell in the Civil war