Dwindling supplies for
his army at Camden forced Major General Fred Steele to send out a foraging party
to gather corn that the Confederates had stored about twenty miles up the
Prairie D’Ane-Camden Road on White Oak Creek.
The party loaded the
corn into wagons, and on April 18, Col. James M. Williams started his return to
Camden. Brig. Gen. John S. Marmaduke’s and Brig. Gen. Samuel B. Maxey’s
Confederate forces arrived at Lee Plantation, about fifteen miles from Camden,
where they engaged Williams. The Rebels eventually attacked Williams in the
front and rear forcing him to retreat north into a marsh where his men regrouped
and then fell back to Camden.
The Union lost 198
wagons and all the corn. The estimated casualties for this battle was 417
men most of which were colored Union soldiers belonging to the First Kansas
Colored Infantry. This battle became known as the Battle at Poison Springs.
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