![]() The panels unveiled yesterday are part of Callaway County's effort to mark locations on the Gray Ghosts Trail, which traces the history of the war across the northern part of the state. The fight was part of a summer of battles against Porter and other guerrilla leaders that did not diminish until fall. ![]() ![]() Porter had returned to North Missouri to recruit men for the Confederate army. Guitar, a Columbia lawyer before the war, had recruited a militia regiment early in 1862 comprised of men from several Central Missouri counties. The biggest Callaway County battle of the war pitted a mix of Unionist militia and federal troops under Col. "It is a far more pleasant place to be today than it was 150 years ago," former Judge Joe Holt, co-chair of Kingdom of Callaway Civil War Heritage, said in his introductory remarks. They unveiled two roadside interpretative panels that tell the story of the battle, its principal leaders and two modern Callaway County men who, before they died, studied the battle in detail. Yesterday, almost 150 years later to the hour, descendants from both sides of the fight known as the Battle of Moore's Mill came together with Civil War re-enactors and about 100 other spectators to remember that fight. CALWOOD - At noon on a hot summer day in 1862, a Columbia militia colonel led about 800 men in an attack on a Confederate camp of about 260 that included a company of men from northern Boone County known as the Blackfoot Rangers. ![]()
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