Price attacks the Iron Mountain railhead at Pilot Knob
September 27, 1864, Fort Davidson, Pilot Knob, Missouri.
- Date
- September 27, 1864
- Where
- Fort Davidson, Pilot Knob, Missouri
- What happened
- Raided
- Event
- 131 of 174
Union troops held Pilot Knob at one end of the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad. Price sent Shelby to cut the railroad on September 26 and assaulted Fort Davidson on September 27; the garrison blew up the magazine and slipped away that night. Price then took Fagan's division north, destroying railroad depots.
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