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Mine Creek Battlefield State Historic Site

Pleasanton, KS

The 1864 Battle of Mine Creek was one of the largest cavalry engagements of the Civil War and unfolded across this preserved landscape. Trails and exhibits let visitors follow the terrain where a retreating Confederate army collided with pursuing Union cavalry.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: kansashistory.gov/mine_creek

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