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Camp Jackson Affair

1861 CE · United States, North America · War

Camp Jackson Affair
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The Camp Jackson affair, also known as the Camp Jackson massacre, occurred during the American Civil War on May 10, 1861, when a volunteer Union Army regiment captured a unit of the Missouri Volunteer Militia at Camp Jackson, outside the city of St. Louis, in the divided slave state of Missouri.

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