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U.S. Grant – Friends With Foes

A remembrance for the 191st anniversary of the birth of Ulysses S. Grant: Grant’s strengths and his faults have been debated for well over a century.  I can relate two little known incidents that illustrate what was, simultaneously, his most disarming and undoing personal trait. ...
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A Cemetery in Hannibal

When first I heard that Hannibal’s Old Baptist Cemetery has graves of two veterans of the 55th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, I thought to myself, here are men who transplanted themselves to Missouri after the Civil War.  Peel back the pages of history, though, and what is...

I’d Rather Have That Eagle…(Part 2 of 2)

Part 1 describes the 8th Wisconsin Infantry’s entry into the State of Missouri in October, 1861, with their eagle mascot, “Old Abe.”  Old Abe heard the sounds of battle the first time at Fredericktown, Missouri, on October 21, 1861. The Wisconsin men left Missouri for Cairo,...

I’d Rather Have That Eagle…(Part 1 of 2)

The most famous Civil War mascot was a young eagle from Wisconsin.  “Old Abe,” as he was known by the men of the 8th The Wisconsin boys joined up in northern Wisconsin; they trained in Madison and moved to Chicago as they prepared to enter the war.  Their young eagle – seemingly...

Interest in U.S. Grant Trail Expands

ST. LOUIS, MO. January 14, 2014 – Missouri’s Civil War Heritage Foundation has announced that it has received additional funding from both the Missouri Division of Tourism and The Friends of Fort Davidson for the purpose of expanding the U.S. Grant Trail south from...

Civil War Round Table Meets January 22, 2014

The monthly meeting of the Civil War Round Table of St. Louis features Diane Eickhoff and Aaron Barnhart, authors of The Big Divide: A Travel Guide to Historic and Civil War Sites in the Missouri-Kansas Border Region. At the Royale Orleans Banquet Center in South County.  For...