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This is a story - a folk tale, if you please, of the Civil War's "farthest north", a battle more northernly than Gettysburg, and two years ahead of it, It was one of the very first cleancut Union victories in the West. But there is not a document concerning it in all the archives of the War Department. Thus it has not found its way into our published histories of the war. The Battle of Athens, long known in Iowa and Missouri as the Farthest North in the Civil War held Northeast Missouri for the Union.