Dozens of people sat on the edges of their seats Saturday at the Missouri State Archives in Jefferson City as speakers detailed Civil War efforts in Missouri in late 1864. Among the speakers at a ...

The Civil War battle, as most folks in town will share, “only lasted three days,” yet it still is Lexington’s claim to fame. The goal now is to get those 60,000 visitors to venture downtown for lunch ...

On Jan. 11, also known as Missouri Emancipation Day, the Missouri History Museum is bringing new attention to an antebellum insurrection plot that was secretly devised by free Black Americans in St.

Jefferson City- One of four Missouri Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission focus groups met to develope ideas to promote the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War throughout Missouri. Each ...

Missouri had long teetered between being a slave or free state. And in 1864, after three years of bloodshed, former Missouri Gov. Sterling Price, while serving as a Confederate general, presented his ...

CENTRALIA, Mo. — For a state steeped in Civil War history, Missouri can be awfully quiet about its contributions. More than 1,100 battles were fought in the border state, trailing only Virginia and ...

HOTLINE 816474 TIPS 606 LOCAL GROUP OF HISTORIANS IS HELPING US LOOK AT MISSOURI’S CIVIL WAR HISTORY IN A NEW WAY. THE PROJECT IS TELLING THE STORY OF BLACK SOLDIERS WHO FOUGHT IN THE CIVIL WAR BUT ...

"In our youths, our hearts were touched with fire." This quote from a speech given by Oliver Wendall Holmes demonstrates the profound effects the Civil War had on our ancestors. Up to 80% of those who ...

Christian County native P.J. Logan's uncle used to take her son around Ozark to visit various Civil War history points of interest. Logan remembers one of these local sites was a farm, just north of ...

For history buffs and Civil War enthusiasts, the Battle of Carthage Museum offers a place to learn more about one of the first full-scale land battles of the war. Located on the main square in ...