The Battle of Wilson’s Creek or Oak Hills in southwestern Greene County on August 10, 1861, is Missouri’s best-…
The builder and commandant of Fort Bellefontaine, General Daniel Bissell served with…
Born in Lexington, Kentucky, on December 14, 1792, Lilburn W. Boggs became one of the most…
Anna Lansing Clapp, president of the Ladies’ Union Aid Society (LUAS) of St. Louis, was born on August 28, 1814, at…
Adaline Weston Couzins, a volunteer nursing escort and relief worker during the Civil War, was born in Brighton,…
Samuel Ryan Curtis figured largely in Missouri’s Civil War history from August 1861 through…
Henry Dodge served his nation in a long and prosperous life on the nineteenth-century…
Born on July 9, 1808, in Mason County, Kentucky, Alexander William Doniphan was the son of…
Daniel Marsh Frost, a Confederate army officer, was born on August 9, 1823, in Mariaville,…
Stephen Watts Kearny was born on August 30, 1794, in Newark, New Jersey. He was the…