Battle of Mount Zion Church

Battle of Mount Zion Church
Part of the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War
Mt. Zion Church from the west
Date December 28, 1861 (1861-12-28) Location Boone County, Missouri Result Union victory
Belligerents
United States (Union)	Missouri (Confederate)
Commanders and leaders
Benjamin M. Prentiss	Caleb W. Dorsey
Units involved
3rd Missouri Cavalry Birge's Western Sharpshooters	Missouri State Guard
Strength
440	~900
Casualties and losses
3 dead 63 wounded 4 captured	~25 dead ~150 wounded 60 captured[1]

The Battle of Mount Zion Church was fought on December 28, 1861, in Boone County, near Mount Zion Church, during the American Civil War. The resulting Union victory here and elsewhere in central Missouri ended Confederate recruiting activities in the region and pushed conventional Confederate forces out of the area until the desperate fall 1864 invasion by General Sterling Price and his Missouri State Guard.