Ranger Sarah finds an old foundation along the trail. As Sigel’s troops crossed Dry Fork Creek, another skirmish broke out, inflicting the heaviest casualties of the entire battle.
— at Battle of Carthage State Historic Site.

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Ranger Sarah follows the trail. The battle opened with an artillery duel, for about an hour. Jackson then decided to surround Sigel’s troops. Seeing this, Sigel abandoned his plans to attack and ordered a retreat.
— at Battle of Carthage State Historic Site.

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Ranger Sarah looks at a small lake made by Carter Spring. One July 5th 1861 between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m., the two armies encountered one another near Dry Fork Creek, about 9 miles northwest of Carthage.
— at Battle of Carthage State Historic Site.

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Ranger Sarah hikes along the bluff. On July 4, 1861, the night before the battle, Sigel’s troops camped at here at Carter Spring, now part of the historic site, while Jackson’s troops camped about 18 miles farther north.
— at Battle of Carthage State Historic Site.

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Ranger Sarah follows the trail up the bluff. Sigel’s men were on a mission to stop Jackson’s men from reaching the southwest corner of the state, where they were to link up with other Confederate forces to create an army of more than 10,000 men capable of invading and possibly conquering Missouri.
— at Battle of Carthage State Historic Site.

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Ranger Sarah views a small bluff. Missouri troops would face the forces of the Union's Col. Franz Sigel - 1,100 well-drilled and fully armed men, most of whom were St. Louis German-Americans.
— at Battle of Carthage State Historic Site.

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Ranger Sarah at the Carter Spring Trailhead. Jackson took command of the joint pro-Southern forces even though he had no military commission.
— at Battle of Carthage State Historic Site.

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Ranger Sarah hikes towards the trailhead. The Missouri State Guard, under the direction of Missouri’s secessionist governor, Claiborne Fox Jackson, consisted of 2,000 unarmed, hastily assembled and poorly trained volunteers and 4,000 armed men under Brig. Gen. James Rains, who joined Jackson’s men in Lamar before proceeding to Carthage.
— Battle of Carthage

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