Battle of Athens (1861)

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Battle of Athens
Part of the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War
Date August 5, 1861 (1861-08-05) Location Clark County, Missouri 40°35′06″N 91°41′46″W / 40.585°N 91.696°W / 40.585; -91.696 Result Union victory
Belligerents
United States	Missouri (Confederate)
Commanders and leaders
Col. David Moore	Col. Martin E. Green
Strength
1st Northeast Missouri Home Guard (333–500)	II Division Missouri State Guard (~2,000 men plus 3 cannon)
Casualties and losses
3 killed 20 wounded	31 killed & wounded

The Battle of Athens was an American Civil War skirmish that took place in northeast Missouri in 1861 near present-day Revere and southeast Iowa along the Des Moines River across from Croton (3 miles southeast of Farmington). The Union victory has the distinction of being the most northerly of Civil War Battles fought west of the Mississippi, and also of being the only such battle fought along the Iowa border.