August Light: Wilson's Creek and the Battle for Missouri 

I visited the battlefield at Wilson's Creek years ago and when the guide said the Southern commander's name was General Sterling Price, I blurted out, " that's the name of John Wayne's cat in 'true grit' ". Many were amused.

Excellent presentation. My great grandfather and two sons fought at Wilson Creek

My son is the first kid that runs up and throws a rock at 9:27. He still jokes about being an actor, lol. He's almost 23 now, but I remember this like it was yesterday. It was a very cool shoot. 👍

Visited Wilson Creek in 2022. The battlefield is well maintained

Well done presentation. More detail than most about individuals and events.

Very well done!! Thank-you for educating me on this important, little corner of the Civil War.

capt phillip w fulkerson csa - unmarked grave in clinton mo - found and marked - fought at the creek - the only vet i have found

Excellent documentary telling the story of a vital battle at the beginning of our Civil War 👍

Excellent, Glad I watched it. I highly recommend it.

I visited the battle field at Wilson's Creek and was awe struck by the stories rendered. Such bravery and sacrifice on both sides. Having served during Vietnam war is still something that stirs the soul.

My girlfriends ancestor Steven Mills was in the 13th Missouri Vol. Cavalry, company F. She has the original tin type photo of him in his St. Louis depot shell jacket.

Excellent. Thanks from London UK.

Thank you for the video...the 160th anniversary of wilsons creek is coming up next month

Great stuff and great comments from very informed citizens.

...I've heard the main commentator before; he's top-notch, and makes the documentary a great one...LR.

I made it in this film once in the 1st Iowa from the 1991 reenactment.....looking over ny shoulder from the top of Bloody Hill. First white shirt to the left of the guy tripping over a tree at 35:14. The battle documentary was superbly done!!

Nathaniel Lyon was the Missouri version of Leroy Jenkins.

This is phenomenal. Can you make another about Pea Ridge?

Camera work and cinematography are excellent, realistic and authentic in appearance..

Wow! That was astonishing, I felt like I was there!

It's a great historical event. It was August of 1861.

This is a brilliant documentary.

What a battle. One of my ancestors, Captain Coleman of St. Louis fell leading his company of Confederates. Brave men one and all.

Thanks for the video.. my second great uncle was under general Lyons.. who eventually made it to Pea Ridge an became a Major.. his name was Major Charles Galloway.. who the town In Missouri was named after him.. of Galloway Missouri.. still doing more research but I am visiting all of his foot steps as well as my 2nd Great Grand Father Francis mMarion Galloway !

"Secede" not "Succeed"

My grandpa played Franz Sigel 6:38

As a Southerner it hurts to say that the South had to lose. Due to unjust Slavary and divided the country. All Men Are Created Equal

UNDERRATED.

God Bless these innocent Missourians who have been held in your HANDS A LONG TIME NOW

Well done

I have to gather up some books so I can annotate what I am going to post. This thing is full of inaccuracies, mainly in motivation and reasons for actions on both sides. I will watch again so I can time inaccuracies. MO would be a contested state until the 1880's.

I learned a few things from this video. I didn't know General Lyon had been kicked by a horse. He does seem a bit more reticent as a leader afterwards. I wonder if it's because the kick rattled his mortal brain, or if he was troubled for his part in the St.Louis fiasco with civilians. I was also a bit surprised that the regiment of US Regulars at Wilsons creek was led by a lowly captain. I know it was common for political appointees to outrank professional soldiers. I'm continually surprised by the odd conundrum that professional West Point trained Generals SHOULD be better strategic and tactical leaders than untrained political puffs. Sigel was supposed to be the best of both, but clearly wasn't.

Slavery wasn't the issue that caused some states to succeed from the union. Slavery wasn't an issue until the North was doing badly and Lincoln came up with using slavery as a battle call for the North.

8th of Kansas frontier brigade of the civil war reenactments we fight in that battle of Wilson's Creek in Missouri the 8th of Kansas actually did fight there during that time period even at prairie Grove Arkansas and some other conflicts I am the lead scout of the 8th of Kansas frontier brigade

1:44 "... causing seven states to *succeed* from the union in protest..." Off to a good start...

Poor Germans. They had it rough. Must suck to be mocked everyday. Some people have little ♥

Nice. Where can i find Pictures of the Flags in this Doku???

I’m proud to be a Missourian

28:46 Elias and Rebecca Short are my great, great, great, grandparents. Prior to the raid my grandfather moved all of his cattle to an adjacent farm and hid all of his firearms behind the wall boards of their home..the rebels kidnapped a couple of their children and were going to hold them overnight in their camp while Elias paced the floors of the house not knowing where they were being taken... they changed their mind and released them. Funny story, he also threw a crab apple at Sterling Price as he bent over and hit him right in the ass with it. The story goes is that for a split second Price thought that he'd been shot lmao..true story. They were originally from Tennessee and grandpa Short served in the Tennessee militia before they settled in Missouri.

What happened between the first battle of Lexington and Pea Ridge in Missouri? I look for something and I do not find any video about it? Funny!

I've yet to find a video of this event that is non biased.

Purely Yankee bias. Ashame really because the production quality is excellent.

God Bless Gen. Price and his Missourians who fought the invaders and protected Missouri families from the Yankees.

What i don't know would fill a warehouse, but I know a lot of towns have funny sounding names & the town of Chicken Alaska got it's name because no-one could spell ptarmagan, but where is Bloody Kansas?

Oh yeah

'Wilsons creek, treated them rough"...........anyone recognise this ??????

Wilson's creek

My 3rd great granduncle was in the 1st Iowa.

When I visited the Wilson Creek Battlefield I knew very little about it. When I saw the way things unfolded, it dawned on me that it was Chancellorsville in reverse. There an vastly outnumbered army split in two, and while one force (under Lee) held the front against Hooker's Union Army while a striking force (under Stonewall Jackson) circled around to their flank and struck a Union force of Germans. Here at Wilson's creek, a vastly outnumbered Union army split in two with a main force (under Lyon) facing the Confederate front while a striking force (under Siegel) circled around and hit the flank, that force was mainly Germans. The results were very different though, as the Confederates prevailed in both battles.

Only fitting the "butcher" of women and children died that day, he certainly is not a hero because of his previous action.

Springfield was in a bad spot and not staunchly pro union as you say. Just because Springfield was not guarded constantly by the state guard who had plenty to do, allowed the union to camp there but didnt make the majority of the citizens union. People in that area preferred to not mention which side they were on. Many of them switched after what Lincoln did. The union would stop by a house and take the males for their side. The confederates would do the same. The mayor of Springfield had to duplicate the ferry boat operation on the movie The Outlaw Josey Wales (real name Bill Wilson), and pretend to be on the side of whichever side came to town. Many brothers ended up on opposite sides. Technically, the civil war had already started in Missouri due to the Missouri/Kansas border war in the 1850's. Many dont think about Missouri and Kansas being the actual start of the war prior to secession of the states.

Lyon fd around and found out😁

the unmarked grave of capt phillip w fulkerson csa has been found and respect paid - clinton mo

It's not 'SUCEED" - it's 'SECEEDE.'

How did they know how many miles they marches? With what did they measure distance?

A People's victory

What's the music at 17:01 ？

The battle for the very survival of the United States of America.

Franz Siegel convinced the German immigrants to support the Union. The South actualy won more battles in Missouri than the North, but they lost the war.

That was their motto FIGHT LOCAL😀

For what it's worth it's WILSON Creek not Wilson's Creek I've lived about 36 miles north of it through out my life.

so there were many john browns and were willing to die for it i hope that the most blessed their prosperity but to those that kept their evil hearts i hope they are boiling in hell

This video was posted by Civil War flix 2 years ago. Nice "borrow".

Writing like a true Yankee!

CBRN SLC whats up

I'm no bible thumper. But who other than Lincoln could have won this war and held this country together? It almost seems like an act of Heaven.

Acoustic shadow is not plausible. Make up something else. Like wiskie, might be?

Pity the Confederacy lost. Take a peek of what we have today.

Hope, everyone understood that Herr Siegel (while in Germany) was fighting on the same side with Karl Marx)) Interesting liaisons for the future Republicans.

I made them mad at Wilsons Creek museum and was told to leave. I asked why they had false information that stated Missouri was not part of the Confederacy. I told them the real history while several people were listening. Lincoln told the Missouri governor that Missouri could remain neutral. Lincoln then sent federal troops to St Louis and they killed many citizens. Lincoln then sent troops to the state capitol of Jefferson City. The governor and other voted in officials fled to SW Missouri. Lincoln appointed his own chosen governor and officials to control the state. This was unconstitutional since they were not voted in by the people. The governor sent a message to Jefferson Davis from Neosho, Mo. requesting to join the Confederacy and Missouri became the 12th star on the Confederate flag. Kentucky shortly later became the 13th due to similar actions from Lincoln. The Wilsons Creek associate turned red and asked me to leave after a few of the crowd told me thanks for telling the truth. Lincoln knew the whole time that he had to cut off the Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio rivers from the confederacy and had lied to both Missouri and Kentucky about it being ok to remain neutral. Before long, they will have the union winning the battle. Its sad how our government is operating. The confederates had to send supplies up the White River to Forsyth, Mo. which only allowed smaller boats and was a long twisty river journey.

Not pronounced Rala..............it's Rah lee. 30000 horses were killed at Gettysburg....sickening picture as bad as the 12 MILLIONS of unwanted healthy dogs and cats of every breed killed YEARLY. Generals died in that war. Which put an end to it. After that we had/have armchair generals. Dead soldiers in some battlefields are still coming to the surface

A lot of this is fake history and fake names.

Lyon was a coward who got himself into a situation he couldn't handle. He got what he deserved.

The most formidable army of that time were the prussians mr. Yankee

The battle for the very survival of the United States of America.