[Eric in the Ozarks]

I visited the mass burial ground of Confederate soldiers near Richland, MO Saturday.
The state finally recognized the Battle of Monday Hollow from 157 years ago.

[rlmorel]

I honestly had never heard of it, so I had to look it up, and it does sound like a large skirmish, but...I would think it felt like a "battle" to those involved.

I did find this passage interesting:

"...Learning of Wyman's approach, the rebels drew up in a line of battle on a hillside overlooking the road the Union soldiers would have to pass. A wagon train hauling Union soldiers who had been wounded at Wilson's Creek happened along from the opposite direction (on its way from Springfield to Rolla) and was not allowed to pass. The Southerners and the convalescent Union soldiers reportedly exchanged a few jeers as the rebels waited to launch their attack on the approaching soldiers under Wyman. The rebels supposedly laughed that there would soon be a few more wounded Federals to haul to Rolla..."

There was something about this that seemed to me so unique to the American Civil War.