BAXTER SPRINGS MASSACRE MEMORIAL PLAQUE
DEDICATED IN MEMORY OF GENERAL JAMES G. BLUNT AND HIS ESCORT WHO DEFENSELESS, FELL VICTIMS TO THE INHUMAN FEROCITY OF GUERRILLAS, LED BY THE INFAMOUS QUANTRELL IN HIS RAID UPON BAXTER SPRINGS OCTOBER 6TH 1863, IN WHICH 135 UNION SOLDIERS WERE SLAIN AND ARE NOW SLEEPING IN THE BAXTER SPRINGS NATIONAL CEMETERY.
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Listing Details
- Public
- CIVIL WAR
- Plaques On Stone
- 1931
- 210 WEST 10TH STREET
- 66713
- WILLIAM FISCHER, JR.
- COURTESY OF HMdb.org
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