Fort Davidson State Historic Site
Battlefield · Pilot Knob, Missouri
The earthwork fort at Pilot Knob where, on 27 September 1864, around a thousand Union soldiers held off a Confederate force several times their size during Price's Missouri Expedition, then slipped out through the enemy lines overnight and blew up their own powder magazine behind them. The crater is still there in the middle of the fort. The battle cost Price a day and roughly a thousand casualties he could not replace, and the expedition never recovered.
118 East Maple Street, Pilot Knob, Missouri, 63663, United States
The site and the earthworks are FREE and open daily, dawn to dusk, year round. THE VISITOR CENTER KEEPS LIMITED AND SEASONAL HOURS and is closed some weekdays - check before travelling, because the interpretation is inside it and the fort without it is a grass bank. Closed on state holidays.
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