BAXTER SPRINGS MASSACRE MEMORIAL PLAQUE
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Listing Details
Type of Memorial: Plaques On Stone
Year Dedicated: 1931
Access: Public
Wars Commemorated: CIVIL WAR
Photograph By: WILLIAM FISCHER, JR.
Submitted By: COURTESY OF HMdb.org
DEDICATED IN MEMORY OF GENERAL JAMES G. BLUNT AND HIS ESCORT WHO DEFENSELESS, FELL VICTIMS TO THE INHUMAN FEROCITY OF GUERRILLAS, LED BY THE INFAMOUS QUANTRELL IN HIS RAID UPON BAXTER SPRINGS OCTOBER 6TH 1863, IN WHICH 135 UNION SOLDIERS WERE SLAIN AND ARE NOW SLEEPING IN THE BAXTER SPRINGS NATIONAL CEMETERY.
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