Battle of Mount Zion Church

Battle of Mount Zion Church
Part of the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the
American Civil War

Mt. Zion Church from the west
DateDecember 28, 1861 (1861-12-28)
Location
Result Union victory
Belligerents
United States United States (Union) Missouri Missouri (Confederate)
Commanders and leaders
United States Benjamin M. Prentiss Missouri Caleb W. Dorsey
Units involved
3rd Missouri Cavalry
Birge's Western Sharpshooters
Missouri State Guard
Strength
440 ~900
Casualties and losses
3 dead
63 wounded
4 captured
~25 dead
~150 wounded
60 captured[1]

The Battle of Mount Zion Church was fought on December 28, 1861, in Boone County, near Mount Zion Church, during the American Civil War. The resulting Union victory here and elsewhere in central Missouri ended Confederate recruiting activities in the region and pushed conventional Confederate forces out of the area until the desperate fall 1864 invasion by General Sterling Price and his Missouri State Guard.

  1. ^ History of Boone County, Missouri. pp. 415-18