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Civil War in St. Joe
Saint Joseph, Missouri, was the most northern southern city in the United States at the outset of the War of the Rebellion. As neighborhoods and families were torn apart by sympathies to opposing sides, fierce tension brought the establishment of martial law to the city which lasted until the end of the war. Today more than 300 Union and Confederate veterans lie in close proximity on Mount Mora Cemetery�s shady hillsides. No fenc…... Read more >
Confederate Cavalry West of the River
The organized armies of the Trans-Mississippi South suffered two major defeats in the spring of 1862: at Pea Ridge, Arkansas, just south of the Missouri line, on March 6-7, 1862, and at Island No. 10, below New Madrid, Missouri, on April 8, 1862. Confederate infantry rarely ventured into Missouri in force after this time. Union troops remaining in the state were, in pro-Southern sectors, engaged as an army of occupation, and the area of Littl…... Read more >
Missouri's Gallant 62nd
By STANFORD L. DAVIS
During the Civil War, 186,000 ex-slaves and black freedmen joined the Union Army. Thirty-seven thousand of them would not see the beginning of the new society. Amongst these men of war was a regiment of veteran black Missouri troops who took part in what is widely recognized as the final battle of the war.
In November of 1863 the State of Missouri created its first African-American regiment, the First Missouri Infa…... Read more >
African-Americans' War for Freedom - From First to Last
Ironically, it was a losing case, and the persistence of Dred and Harriett Scott of St. Louis who brought the case in 1847, which contributed more than any other single event to the coming of war and the abolition of slavery.
The Scotts? suit, which was brought first in the Circuit Court in St. Louis, pursued the theory that they became free when they lived in a Free territory with the Army officer to whom they were bound. This was one of m…... Read more >
