Battle of Old Fort Wayne

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Battle of Old Fort Wayne
Part of the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War
Date October 22, 1862 Location Fort Wayne, Indian Territory 36°22′05″N 94°38′52″W / 36.368°N 94.6478°W / 36.368; -94.6478 Result Union victory
Belligerents
United States of America (Union)	CSA (Confederacy)
Commanders and leaders
James G. Blunt	Douglas H. Cooper
Units involved
1st Division, Army of the Frontier	1st Indian Brigade
Strength
1 division	1 brigade
Casualties and losses
14	150

The Battle of Old Fort Wayne, also known as Maysville, Beattie's Prairie, or Beaty's Prairie, was an American Civil War battle on October 22, 1862, in Delaware County in what is now eastern Oklahoma.

Confederate Major General Thomas C. Hindman, commander of the Trans-Mississippi Department, had ordered his troops to put down bushwhackers in southwest Missouri and northwest Arkansas. At the time, Colonel Douglas H. Cooper and his Indian Brigade were stationed near Newtonia, Missouri, preparing to move to Springfield, Missouri. Hindman ordered Cooper to hold Newtonia until he could move other troops to surround Springfield. There were several skirmishes between Confederate and Union forces from September 30 and October 3. On October 4, Blunt's troops surrounded Newtonia on three sides. Cooper and his Indian forces beat a hasty retreat back to Indian Territory.^[1]

Brig. Gen. James G. Blunt and his Cherokee, Indiana, and Kansas troops from the First Division of the Army of the Frontier attacked Col. Douglas H. Cooper and his Confederate command on Beatties Prairie near Old Fort Wayne at 7:00 a.m. on October 22, 1862. The Confederates put up stiff resistance for a half-hour, but overwhelming numbers forced them to retire from the field in haste, leaving artillery and other equipment behind. This was a setback in the 1862 Confederate offensive that extended from the Tidewater in the East to the plains of the Indian Territory of the West.