the State Historical Society of Missouri
![Andrew Jackson Henderson, a member of the Stone Prairie Home Guard, pictured later in the war after he joined Company G of the Fifteenth Missouri Cavalry Volunteers. He also served in Company L of the Seventy-Sixth Enrolled Missouri Militia. [Courtesy of Jeremiah Buntin and Kimberly Harper]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-04/1.-stone-prairie-home-guard.jpg?h=ecda3842&itok=l8eN27Wm "Andrew Jackson Henderson, a member of the Stone Prairie Home Guard, pictured later in the war after he joined Company G of the Fifteenth Missouri Cavalry Volunteers. He also served in Company L of the Seventy-Sixth Enrolled Missouri Militia. [Courtesy of Jeremiah Buntin and Kimberly Harper]")
The Stone Prairie Home Guard (SPHG) was the first Union military organization active in Barry…
![The Whig Party’s national ticket in 1848 included presidential candidate Zachary Taylor and vice presidential candidate Millard Fillmore. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-pga-09004]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-07/Whig-Party-1848-election.jpg?h=71843103&itok=jpR2qCOY "The Whig Party’s national ticket in 1848 included presidential candidate Zachary Taylor and vice presidential candidate Millard Fillmore. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-pga-09004]")
Though not organized until several years after the party had formed at the national…
The Yocums, a prolific clan in the interior Ozarks for two centuries, are inextricably…