This battle rates only a few words in the history books of Missouri and hardly any at all in overall Civil War histories. It was the northernmost skirmish west of the Mississippi during that war. However, some of the men who fought in the battle of Athens are remembered more for another battle they fought later, several hundred miles south.
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