The Battle of Pilot Knob - Pilot Knob, MO
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YoSam.
N 37° 37.152 W 090° 38.398
15S E 708286 N 4166185
A two day battle that shut the Confederates out of any chance to occupy St. Louis
Waymark Code: WM16T94
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 10/01/2022
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County of site: Iron County
Location of site: Main St. (old MO 21) & Maple St. (MO 221), Fort Davidson (back side), Pilot Knob
Text of marker:
The Battle of Pilot Knob
September 27, 1864
In September of 1864 Major General Sterling Price and a
12,000 man army re-entered Missouri in a forlorn effort to regain the state for
the Confederacy on September 27th they laid siege to Fort Davidson. The
defenders though greatly outnumbered, repulsed the initial assaults and escaped
that evening the effort was costly for the Confederate forces however, and
hundreds of them lie buried here known only to God. They made the supreme
sacrifice for the principles in which they believed a few Union soldiers are
interred here also. Whatever transgressions existed on either side let the
passage of time bury amid the ruins of the past,. but whatever was noble and
honorable it is our sacred duty to transmit to succeeding generations, let no
man asperse the memory of our sacred dead. They were patriots who died for
the constitutional principals and liberties guaranteed them as Americans.
Peace be unto their ashes and honor their spirits.