2008 tour of the Camden Point battlefield

In March 2008, the society had a two part program. On our normal Thursday night program, Scott Porter, member of the Fort Leavenworth Historical Society, member of Missouri State Historical Society speaker's bureau and tactics instructor at the US Army Command and General Staff College talked to the society on the 1864 Civil War battle at Camden Point, Missouri, less than twenty miles from Fort Leavenworth.

On Saturday, 22 March, Scott then lead a convoy of people from Fort Leavenworth to visit the battlefield. Not a large battle, but the effect of the fighting on 13 July was to scatter Confederate forces that had been building in strength in the western portion of Missouri. The group then visited the Confederate cemetery at Camden Point where Ed Kennedy, another instructor from the tactics department, gave a presentation on Confederate weapons and equipment and Scott described the memorialization of the Confederate dead in the 1860s and repairing of the cemetery in the 1990s.

The turn out for both the talk and battlefield tour was good, despite the bitter cold blast that came in on Saturday. The gallery below shows a little of the presentation.

The society would like to thanks Scott Porter, Ed Kennedy, and the Missouri State Historical Society for their assistance on the program.