Unfortunately, our boys in the 8th lost many of these engagements, but I know they gave it their all to fight against higher odds in number and equipment in battle. I would daresay that the 8th MO Cavalry got the best of them Yankees for their part of the fight in the majority of these engagements!
Chronology of the Eighth
Marmaduke’s First Raid into
Hartville
Chalk Bluff,
Marmaduke’s Second Raid into
Cape Girardeau
Chalk Bluff,
Taylor
L’Anguille Bridge,
Helena
Operations Against Union Advance to
Aug. 1 – Sept. 14, 1863
Bayou Metoe Aug. 26
Reed’s Ridge Aug. 27
Shallow Ford Aug. 30
Bayou Fourche (Little Rock) Sept. 10 - Loss
Operations Against Steele’s Expedition from Little Rock to
Camden, Arkansas
Elkins’ Ferry (Okolona) Apr. 3-4 - Loss
Prairie D'Ane (Gum Grove, Moscow) Apr. 9-13 - Loss
Poison Spring Apr. 18 - WIN
Marks' Mill Apr. 25 - WIN
Princeton Apr. 28
Jenkins’ Ferry Apr. 30 - Loss
Operations on the west bank of the
Ditch Bayou (Old River Lake),
Dunklin
Sikeston
Pilot Knob (Fort Davidson) Sept. 27 - Loss
Leasburg Oct. 1
Union Oct. 1
Miller’s Station Oct. 3
Hermann Oct. 4
Boonville Oct. 10
Glasgow Oct. 15 - WIN
Little Blue (Westport) Oct. 21 - WIN
Big Blue (Byram’s Ford) Oct. 23 - Loss
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