Price's Great Missouri Raid

Historical marker location:

Independence, Missouri

( Marker is on East Old Lexington Road west of North Blue Mills Road, on the left when traveling west.)

The Battle of the Little Blue River. "They fought us on the blue grass ridges..." Pvt. James H. Campbell, 14th Mo. Confederate Cavalry.

The famous Dred Scott case, which helped fuel the tensions that led to the Civil War, originated in Missouri. Dred Scott was a slave who sued for his freedom in the Missouri courts in 1857, but the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately ruled against him.