THE BATTLE OF
WILSON'S CREEK
AUGUST 10, 1861
WILSON'S CREEK NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
4th Edition
Thank you for your interest in educational materials at Wilson's Creek National Battlefield. This guide is designed to provide you with the necessary introductory materials so that you and your students can make the most of your study of and, if time permits, your visit to the battlefield. Please ask about our other educational packets developed specifically for use with elementary, junior high, and high school students. Please feel free to copy information from any of these packets for use in your classroom. Also see our packets for information on how you may acquire other park materials such as traveling trunks, videos, and more. Should you have further questions and/or concerns, please call us at (417) 732-2662, Monday through Friday, between 8:00 A.M. and 4:30 P.M.
Both the first edition and a revised second edition of The Educators’ Guide were funded by the Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield Foundation in 1982-83 and 1987. A revised third edition of this guide was funded in 1996 by the National Park Foundation.
This revised fourth edition of the Educators’ Guide was prepared by Kenneth Elkins, Jeff Patrick, and the staff of Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield and funded by a National Park Service "Parks as Classrooms" grant.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. EDUCATIONAL GROUP RESERVATION FORM
2. EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS REQUEST FORM
3. THE BATTLE:
A brief account of the Battle of Wilson's Creek, its significance and the Civil War in Missouri.
4. BIBLIOGRAPHIES:
A. The Battle of Wilson's Creek, August 10, 1861. Covers Lyon's campaign in 1861, the battle, and the balance of the Civil War in Missouri.
B. Greene County in the Beginning. Covers the settlement of Greene County, its development, and antebellum life in this county and the Ozarks in general.
5. PUBLICATIONS:
Books on the Battle of Wilson's Creek and related subjects available for purchase at Wilson's Creek National Battlefield.
6. RELATED ORGANIZATIONS:
A list and brief description of local facilities, other than Wilson's Creek National Battlefield, with more and/or different information regarding this area, the battle, and the Civil War.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
THE BATTLE OF WILSON'S CREEK, AUGUST 10, 1861
The following is a partial list of books, articles, and other materials about the Battle of Wilson's Creek which are available at the Springfield-Greene County Public Library or at Wilson's Creek National Battlefield. For further sources, please see the bibliographies in the three grade-appropriate educational booklets. Please note that those works listed below that are comprised of largely primary sources are marked with the prefix "*".
The Battle of Wilson's Creek, August 10, 1861. Souvenir Edition. N.A. Wilson's Creek Centennial, 1961.
Bearss, Edwin C. The Battle of Wilson's Creek. Fourth edition. Wilson's Creek National Battlefield Foundation, 1992.
Bevier, R.S. History of the First and Second Missouri Confederate Brigades, 1861-1865. St. Louis: Bryan, Brand & Co., 1879.
*Buel, Clarence, ed. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. 1. New York: Century, 1887.
Castel, Albert. General Sterling Price and the Civil War in the West. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1968.
Cutrer, Thomas W. Ben McCulloch and the Frontier Military Tradition. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
*Elkins, Kenneth R. Bloody Hill Walking Guide. Second edition. Eastern National Park and Monument Association, 1996.
Engle, Stephen D. Yankee Dutchman: The Life of Franz Sigel. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1993.
*Hatcher, Richard W. and William Garrett Piston, editors. Kansans at Wilson’s Creek: Soldiers’ Letters from the Campaign For Southwest Missouri. Springfield, Missouri: Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield Foundation, 1993.
Holcombe, Return I. and W.S. Adams. An Account of the Battle of Wilson's Creek, or Oak Hills. Springfield: Dow & Adams, Publishers, 1883. Reprinted in 1961 and 1985 by the Springfield Public Library and the Greene County Historical Society.
Hulston, John. "West Point and Wilson's Creek." Civil War History, December, 1955. Reprinted by the Wilson's Creek National Battlefield Foundation, 1991.
Kingman, W.A. Battle of Wilson's Creek, History and Geography. N.D.
*Mitchell, Benjamin. "Confederate Participant Describes the Battle of Wilson's Creek." Ozarks Mountaineer, February, 1959.
Monaghan, Jay. Civil War on the Western Border, 1854-1865. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1955.
*Mudd, Joseph A. "What I Saw at Wilson's Creek." Missouri Historical Review, January, 1913.
Peckham, James. Gen. Nathaniel Lyon and Missouri in 1861. New York: American News Co., 1866.
Phillips, Christopher. Damned Yankee: The Life of General Nathaniel Lyon. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1991.
_________________. Missouri’s Confederate: Claiborne Fox Jackson and the Creation of Southern Identity in the Border West. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2000.
Piston, William G. and Richard W. Hatcher III. Wilson’s Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Snead, Thomas. The Fight for Missouri. New York: Scribner's, 1888.
Upton, Lucille Morris. Battle of Wilson's Creek. Springfield: Wilson's Creek Battlefield Foundation, 1950.
*Ware, Eugene F. The Lyon Campaign in Missouri. Topeka: Crane, 1907. Reprinted by the Press of the Camp Pope Bookshop, 1991.
*Watson, William. Life in the Confederate Army. London: Chapman and Hall, 1887. Reprinted by Louisiana State University Press, 1995.
*Woodruff, W.E. With the Light Guns in '61-'65. Reminiscences of Eleven Arkansas, Missouri and Texas Light Batteries in the Civil War Little Rock, Arkansas: Central Printing Co., 1903. Reprinted by Eagle Press of Little Rock, 1987.
Woodward, Ashbel. Life of General Nathaniel Lyon. Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Co., 1862.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
GREENE COUNTY IN THE BEGINNING
These titles were selected as being representative of the social and political climate of Greene County at the time of settlement as well as during its early development. Some are entirely devoted to Greene County while others reflect the Ozarks region in general. All of the materials are available at the Springfield-Greene County Public Library. Please note that those works listed below that are comprised largely of primary sources are marked with the prefix "*".
Atherton, Lewis E. "Missouri's Society and Economy in 1821." Missouri Historical Review, July, 1971.
An Illustrated Atlas of Greene County, MO. Brink, McDonough & Co., 1876.
Britton, Wiley. Pioneer Life in Southwest Missouri. Kansas City: Smith-Grieves, 1929.
Brown, Miriam. The Story of Springfield. Springfield Public Schools, 1940.
Dark, Harris and Phyllis. Springfield of the Ozarks; an Illustrated History. Woodland Hills, California: Windsor, 1981.
Fairbanks, Jonathan and Clyde Tuck. Past and Present of Greene County, Missouri. Indianapolis: A.W. Bowen & Co., 1915.
Farmer, Frank. Willard: From Prairie to Present. Willard Bicentennial Heritage Committee, 1976.
Holcombe, Return I. History of Greene County, Missouri
. St. Louis: Western Historical Company, 1883.*Hubble, Martin J., ed. Personal Reminiscences and Fragments of the Early History of Springfield and Greene County, Missouri. Springfield: Museum of the Ozarks, 1979.
Ingenthron, Elmo. Indians of the Ozark Plateau. Point Lookout: School of the Ozarks Press, 1970.
Morrow, Lynn. "Trader William Gilliss and Delaware Migration in Southern Missouri." Missouri Historical Review, January, 1981.
Ozarks Genealogical Society. 1833-1850: Early Land Records of Present Day Greene County. Ozarks Genealogical Society, 1982.
Randolph, Vance. The Ozarks, an American Survival of Primitive Society. New York: Vanguard, 1931.
Rayburn, Otto. Ozark Country. New York: Dell, 1941.
Sauer, Carl O. The Geography of the Ozark Highland of Missouri. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1920.
Schmitt, Alan and Elizabeth Williams. City of Seven Hills: A Pictorial History of Ash Grove, Missouri. Privately published, 1982.
Schoolcraft, Henry R. Schoolcraft in the Ozarks. Van Buren, AR: Press-Argus, 1955.
Shepard, Edward M. "Early Springfield." Missouri Historical Review, October, 1925.
Upton, Lucile Morris. "How Springfield was Named." Springfield Magazine, June, 1980.
Wetmore, Alphonso. Gazeteer of the State of Missouri. New York: Mid-America Frontier, 1975.
WILSON'S CREEK NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD
ABRIDGED SALES LIST
A Sketchbook of the Union Infantryman, by Alan H. Archambault, 1999, PB.
A Southern Record: The History of the Third Louisiana Infantry, by W. H. Tunnard, 1997, PB.
An Account of the Battle of Wilson's Creek, by Holcombe and Adams (Originally printed in 1883, reprinted in 1961 and 1985 by the Springfield Public Library and the Greene County Historical Society), PB.
An Artilleryman’s War: Gus Dey and the 2nd United States Artillery, by Michael Ingrisano, Jr., 1998, PB.
The Battle of Wilson's Creek, by Edwin Bearss (4th ed. published by Wilson's Creek National Battlefield Foundation, 1992), PB.
Battle in the Civil War: Generalship and Tactics in America, 1861-65, by Paddy Griffith, 1986, PB.
Ben McCulloch and the Frontier Military Tradition, by Thomas Cutrer, 1993, HB.
Bloody Hill Walking Guide, by Kenneth Elkins, 1991, PB.
Blue and Gray Cookery: Authentic Recipes from The Civil War Years, by Hugh and Judy Gowan, 1980, PB.
Cannons: An Introduction to Civil War Artillery, by Dean Thomas, 1985, PB.
Carthage in the Civil War, by Steve Cottrell, 1990, PB.
The Civil War, by Bruce Catton, American Heritage Library, 1987, (same text as Picture History but fewer illustrations and descriptive materials), PB.
The Civil War Battlefield Guide, edited by Frances Kennedy, 1990, PB.
Civil War Parks, by William C. Davis, 1992, PB.
Civil War Medical Encyclopedia, Vols. I, II, III, by Dr. Gordon Dammann, 1983, 1988, 1997 PB.
Civil War in the Indian Territory, by Steve Cottrell, 1995, PB.
Civil War in the Ozarks, by Phillip W. Steele and Steve Cottrell, 1994, PB.
Civil War on the Western Border, 1854-1865, by Jay Monaghan, 1955, 1984, PB.
Civil War, The - Vols. I, II, III, by Shelby Foote, 1963, 1986, PB.
Confederate Arkansas, by Michael Dougan, 1976, PB.
Damned Yankee: The Life of General Nathaniel Lyon, by Christopher Phillips, 1990, HB.
Down the Wire Road, by Fern Angus, 1992, PB.
Frontier State At War: Kansas, 1861-65, by Albert Castel, 1958, 1992, PB.
General Sterling Price and the Civil War in the West, by Albert Castel, 1968, 1993, PB.
Golden Book of the Civil War, by Charles Hato, 1976, PB. (adapted from Bruce Catton’s Picture History for young readers).
Inside War: The Guerrilla Conflict In Missouri During the Civil War, by Michael Fellman, 1989, PB.
Kansas At Wilson's Creek: Soldiers' Letters from the Campaign for Southwest Missouri, edited by Richard W. Hatcher III and William Garrett Piston, 1993, PB.
Life in the Confederate Army, by William Watson, 1995, (reprint of 1887 edition), PB.
The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union, by Bell Wiley, 1952, 1994, PB.
The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy, by Bell Wiley, 1943, 1995, PB.
The Lyon Campaign and History of the 1st Iowa Infantry, by Eugene Ware, 1991, (reprint of 1907 edition), HB.
Missouri’s Confederate: Claiborne Fox Jackson and the Creation of Southern Identity in the Border West, by Christopher Phillips, 2000, HB.
Nathaniel Lyon, Harbinger from Kansas, by Scott Price, 1990, PB.
Pea Ridge: Civil War Campaign in the West, by William Shea and Earl Hess, 1992, HB.
Ray House, The, by August Klapp, PB.
Rugged and Sublime: The Civil War in Arkansas, edited by Mark Christ, 1994, PB.
Up From Arkansas: Marmaduke’s First Missouri Raid, by Frederick Goman, 1999, PB.
West Point and Wilson's Creek, by John K. Hulston, 1991, PB.
Wilson’s Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It, by William Garrett Piston and Richard W. Hatcher III, 2000, HB.
Yankee Dutchman: The Life of Franz Sigel, by Stephen Engle, 1993, PB.
Sterling Price Print
Postcards (scenes of battlefield, participants, etc.)
Battlefields of the Civil War (Map)
Civil War at a Glance (Map)
Wilson's Creek: The Struggle for Missouri Begins (video)
Other items – call 73202662 for expanded sales list.
Please Note:
1. All prices and availability of books are subject to change.
2. Postage and Handling Fee - To $20.00 - $3.50; $20.01-$40.00 - $6.50
For larger mail orders please call the Eastern National Bookstore at Wilson's Creek National Battlefield (417 -732-2662) for correct postage and handling.
3. Please make checks or money orders payable to Eastern National.
4. Call or write for an expanded sales list.
RELATED ORGANIZATIONS
The following organizations provide different types of information and services for those interested in various aspects of the American Civil War.
1. General Sweeny's: A Museum of Civil War History
5228 South State Highway ZZ, Republic, MO 65738
ph. (417) 732-1224.
website: http://www.civilwarmuseum.com.
This museum traces the war in the Trans-Mississippi West through fifty different professionally designed displays drawn from over 5,000 artifacts. It covers the period from "Bleeding Kansas" in the 1850s to the surrender of Confederate General Stand Watie in June 1865.
2. Greene County Archives
1126 Boonville, Springfield, MO 65802
ph. (417) 868-4021
These archives provide access to the official records of Greene County from 1833 to the present, including records of civil and criminal court cases, probate court records, tax records, and similar materials.
3. Greene County Historical Society
P.O. Box 3466, Glenstone Station, Springfield, MO 65808
ph. (417) 881-6147
website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~gcmohs.
A group concerned with the promotion and dissemination of information pertaining to Greene County history. Please write for more information.
4. The History Museum for Springfield-Greene County
City Hall Building, Third Floor, 830 Boonville
Springfield, MO 65802
ph. (417) 864-1976
website:http://www.springfieldhistorymuseum.org.
This museum provides permanent and rotating exhibits on local history in Springfield and Greene County. In addition, its archives are open to the public and contain thousands of historical books, documents, and photographs.
5. Ozarks Genealogical Society Library
534 West Catalpa
Springfield, MO 65807
ph. (417) 831-2773
website: www.rootsweb.com/~ozarksgs.
This facility houses and provides public access to genealogical materials for southwest Missouri. Please write for free brochure and information.
6. The Library Center, Local History and Genealogy Department, Springfield-Greene County Public Library
4653 South Campbell , Springfield, MO 65802
ph. (417) 874-8110
website: http://198.209.8.166/sheproom/index.html.
Formerly known as the Shepard Room, this department is the local history and genealogical center for the Springfield-Greene County library system. It has information on Springfield, Greene County, the Ozarks, and Missouri history. It also has material of interest to Civil War enthusiasts, including information from the National Archives, official records, and more.
7. Wilson's Creek National Battlefield Foundation
P.O. Box 8163, Springfield, MO 65801
ph. (417) 864-3041
In cooperation with the National Park Service and Wilson Creek National Battlefield, the Foundation seeks through a variety of means to encourage the full educational utilization and development of the cultural resources of Wilson's Creek National Battlefield.