It was August 6, 1862, when Confederate officer Colonel Joseph C. Porter, who was in Northeast Missouri recruiting new soldiers for the Confederate Army, decided to take a stand in Kirksville against his pursuer, Union Colonel John McNeil. The Union soldiers were fully armed and ready for battle. The Confederate recruits were not, but they took a stance the best they could.
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The Cole County Fairgrounds, before the Civil War, were southeast of the city limits. What today is the tree-lined Wagner subdivision was once the site of community picnics, Independence Day and Emancipation Day celebrations and horse racing.