Sunday, 23 October 1864

The battle scene was like a zoo, appropriately enough since that is what is built on the site today, in Kansas City, Missouri. The Battle of Westport it was called at the time, and put an end to Sterling Price’s last raid in the cause of helping Missouri cast off the Union yoke. He had received little support from Missourians in this effort, and today he battled to the end. A fierce charge around Price’s left flank led to a four-hour battle, followed by Pleasanton’s cavalry attack on the Confederate horsemen, which outnumbered nearly three to one, broke and fled the field. Pleasanton regrouped and charged into the Confederate rear, and organization all but collapsed. Those who could, saving themselves and what comrades they could, set out to make their way to Arkansas by any means possible, or were captured. This was the last major battle west of the Mississippi River.

Second report: The Engagement at Westport, Missouri, took place near present day Kansas City, as Brigadier General Joseph O. Shelby, CSA, attacks; Major General Alfred Pleasonton, USA, and his cavalry counterattack; Brigadier General John S. Marmaduke, CSA, and the rest of Major General Sterling Price's Confederate force see the Union troops reverse yesterday's defeat; Price withdraws southward which ends the Confederate threat in Missouri.

Acting Ensign Sommers, from the USS Tacony, led a reconnaissance party up the Roanoke River, North Carolina. While returning, the party was fired on by Confederates and forced to seek cover in a swamp. After constructing a make-shift raft to support his wounded, Sommers succeeded in reaching the mouth of the river, where he was picked up by Union forces. Four other members of his party, missing in the swamp for four days, were rescued by Union scouts on 29 October.

The blockade runner Flamingo, aground off Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, was destroyed by shell fire from Forts Strong and Putnam, Battery Chatfield, and ships of Rear Admiral John A.B. Dahlgren's South Atlantic Blockading Squadron.

Union soldiers skirmished with Confederate partisans at King's Hill, Alabama.

A skirmish occurred at Dry Run, Virginia, as part of the Shenandoah Valley Campaign.