So who wound up winning the war???

I think you are assuming too much. Van Dorn had his army run ragged even before the battle, and too far from their supply train for it to be of any use. (I mean they actually couldn't find their supply train at one point). Curtis was also an excellent defensive General and excellent administrator. He was the only commander to ever figure out how to use Sigel (relegate him to managing artillery, something he was actually good at). McCulloch was largely untested. Wilson's Creek was a typical early war farce of a "battle" where confusion and chaos reigned, and the Union Army was outnumbered and only withdrew after running out of ammunition. All this is to say we actually don't know how he would've faired if he gad lived. (I mean we know he was prone to impulsivity, which is what got him killed). His subordinate who was killed was even more untested, so no way to know. The rest of the war would show that Price was...well, mediocre at best.

Luck is made. Those two generals were killed because they were far too close to the front than they should have been. Doing solo reconnaissance as a GENERAL and leading your men from the front out of a wood into unknown enemy numbers is literally asking to be shot, and the Union obliged.

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Where is Oregon County?

@@williamnapier1516 Deep Ozarks Southern Missouri directly on the Arkansas border. Not much there now. But the ancestor I spoke of was an infant over by Springfield.

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It's good, history good, audio spot before Van Dorn's blunders skips and over swiftly. Don't stop making videos first rate, thx for taking the time.

And a much different outcome in our early history.

Lincoln started moving troops into St Louis soon after he agreed that Missouri could remain neutral. The Missouri governor didn't like that Lincoln had lied to him. Lincoln knew that the Missouri river at St Louis could allow CSA supplies to get to KC and on westward. Lincoln knew that he couldn't keep the agreement, and the governor also knew it. The arsenal was state, not federal. Lincoln was violating state rights by blocking access to state weapons with federal troops.

​@@gyrospinupLincoln manipulated the war.

I disagree, what we need to bring back is genuine federalism which recognized the Free, Sovereign and Independent status of the States. Restoring agency of the general government. As James Madison explained: “The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State. The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security. As the former periods will probably bear a small proportion to the latter, the State governments will here enjoy another advantage over the federal government. The more adequate, indeed, the federal powers may be rendered to the national defense, the less frequent will be those scenes of danger which might favor their ascendancy over the governments of the particular States. If the new Constitution be examined with accuracy and candor, it will be found that the change which it proposes consists much less in the addition of NEW POWERS to the Union, than in the invigoration of its ORIGINAL POWERS. The regulation of commerce, it is true, is a new power; but that seems to be an addition which few oppose, and from which no apprehensions are entertained. The powers relating to war and peace, armies and fleets, treaties and finance, with the other more considerable powers, are all vested in the existing Congress by the articles of Confederation. The proposed change does not enlarge these powers; it only substitutes a more effective mode of administering them.”

@@bigschnieders1931 People do not now nor then understand that states had the right to resign from the union, same as the country resigned from England in 1776. The amount of slaves was already drastically decreasing and only very few owned slaves considering the population. The states that resigned did not do so strictly due to slavery. Being overtaxed and told not to have commerce with other countries for products that Lincoln wanted businesses to practically give for free to the highly populated North was a major part of it. In certain states such as Missouri and Kentucky, in which he promised could stay neutral, Lincoln caused brothers to fight against brothers which is unacceptable. People need not to look at it as if they would have been a yank or reb during the war and look at the whole picture unbiased. They will then notice how the feds disobeyed the constitution. People had better open their eyes with how it's being done right now.