Byram's Ford Battlefield
At 8 A. M. on October 23, 1864, Federal cavalry under General Alfred E. Pleasonton forced a crossing of the Blue River at Byram’s Ford and attacked the stone ridge, which was defended by Confederate troops under John S. Marmaduke. After 3 hours heavy fighting and severe casualties, the hill was taken. This defeat of Marmaduke’s division enabled Pleasonton to outflank General Sterling Price’s Confederate Army, and contributed to General Samuel S. Curtis’s Union victory at the Battle of Westport.
Marker is on Manchester Trafficway 0.2 miles north of East 63rd Street, on the right when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
