Before the Civil War, almost nobody in Missouri supported the abolition of salvery. Even strong Unionists generally supported "the peculiar institution." But the bloody conflict created a new ...

Jesse James rode with Bill Anderson's bushwhackers into the small Missouri town of Centralia. There the 16-year-old James took part in one of the worst atrocities of the Civil War. The ...

Helen Viola Jackson, the last known widow of a Civil War soldier, has died. She was 101. Jackson's death was confirmed in a statement by the Missouri Cherry Blossom Festival, which revealed that ...

A look at the people and events that shaped the Civil War and Reconstruction ... Smith described the demographics of Missouri at the start of the Civil War and how, despite Missouri not seceding ...

A look at the people and events that shaped the Civil War and Reconstruction ... Smith described the demographics of Missouri at the start of the Civil War and how, despite Missouri not seceding ...

Housed in the restored Jefferson Barracks 1905 Post Exchange Building, the Missouri Civil War Museum is the oldest active military installation west of the Mississippi River. Within the 22,000 ...

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ST. LOUIS — Missouri took control of the St. Louis police department just before the start of the Civil War, a gambit by state leaders to prevent the city from rising up against their conspiracy ...