The Battle of WestPort
By Nico Leluga & Xavier Jackson
October 23, 1864
Price's six-week raid on Missouri was intended to capture a state that had been firmly in Union hands during much of the war. Price hoped to divert attention from the East, where Confederate armies had not done well in the last summer of 1864. A blow against Northern territory could also hurt the Republicans in the fall elections, and it could raise much needed supplies