"Boston" Adams' House

?Confederate Gen. Price made his headquarters here the night of Oct. 22, 1864. His generals convinced him to start south but he refused to abandon his 500-wagon train of war booty. Gen. Shelby's Division camped near Forest Hill cemetery. Gen. Marmaduke was at Byram's Ford and Fagan's Div. and the train were on the west side of the Blue River one mile south of the ford. Benteen's Union Brigade fed their horses west of here at noon on Oct. 23rd.

Marker is on Swope Parkway 0.1 miles south of 63rd Street.

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