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Field Study

The field study focused on the Mine Creek Battlefield, site of a significant Civil War cavalry battle in October 1864 where Confederate General Sterling Price was defeated. The battlefield features a path with informative signs and a main building displaying murals and artifacts, providing a personal and immersive historical experience. The study highlighted the importance of understanding history through physical sites rather than just textbooks, emphasizing the relevance of events that occurred less than 200 years ago.

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Field Study

The field study focused on the Mine Creek Battlefield, site of a significant Civil War cavalry battle in October 1864 where Confederate General Sterling Price was defeated. The battlefield features a path with informative signs and a main building displaying murals and artifacts, providing a personal and immersive historical experience. The study highlighted the importance of understanding history through physical sites rather than just textbooks, emphasizing the relevance of events that occurred less than 200 years ago.

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Bob Guy

I chose to do my field study on the Mine Creek Battlefield, a preserved area


of land where one of the largest cavalry battles during the Civil War occurred. In
October 1864, Confederate General Sterling Price with 7,000 troops fought and
were defeated by Union Colonels Frederick W. Benteen and John H. Philips by
2,500 troops. It was one of three battles that occurred during that same day,
eventually pushing Price into Arkansas. Most of the site today is a large field
containing a path that goes throughout it, and the main building containing murals
and artifacts relating to the area and the battle itself.
Being at the battlefield was very surreal, knowing at one time people were
fighting and dying for what they believed in. Not being from the state, especially
one that never had a civil war battle within it, I learned a lot about it, but if there
was one thing I liked the most was the actual field itself because of all the facts that
were laid out throughout the path and having it be such a large “exhibit” that I was
able to go on my own. An example of this was a sign describing all of the battles
along the Missouri/Kansas state line, along with what occurred at these and a map
showing exactly where these all were. When I was in the main building, I did not
ask many questions to the staff, however, when I did ask they seemed very
knowledgeable and told me more information than what was presented.
A good example of how the site explains the larger historical contexts of
events would be the Price Raid Painting. A sign along the path describes Price’s
Raid, the series of battles occurring along the border. It presents facts such as
troop numbers and what cities were captured, but it also presents the Price Raid
Painting. Samuel Reader, born in Pennsylvania in 1836, was a quartermaster in the
Second Kansas State Militia and was captured during the raids. Throughout his
life until his death in 1914, he diligently kept a journal, often adding to his writing
with small watercolor sketches. As an eyewitness to Price’s Raid, he created a
beautiful painting depicting the taking of Union prisoners by Confederate forces
following the Battle of the Blue on October 22.
Overall, this field study was a good learning experience, seeing history
“alive” is a great way to experience what history actually was. It's not just letters
in a textbook or statues placed throughout the world, but an actual event that
occurred less than 200 years ago, which is not that long ago.

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