The Battle of Honey Springs, 1863

How Union forces won the “Gettysburg of Indian Territory.” In most histories of the Civil War, scant attention is paid to the battles and actions in the Trans-Mississippi area – the vast region west of the Mississippi River. Although the scale and scope of the battles and engagements fought in the West were dwarfed by …

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