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The most important battle fought in Missouri was that of Wilson's Creek, where a Union Army led by brigadier general Nathaniel Lyon was defeated by the Confederate forces under Generals Sterling Price and Ben McCulloch on May 10, 1861. Furthermore, Wilson's Creek was the major Civil War battle fought west of The River Mississippi.

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