Daniel Marsh Frost, a Confederate army officer, was born on August 9, 1823, in Mariaville,…
Claiborne Fox Jackson was born in rural Fleming County, in northeastern Kentucky, on April…
Stephen Watts Kearny was born on August 30, 1794, in Newark, New Jersey. He was the…
Nathaniel “Nat” N. Kinney has a popular image as a romantic, violent, swashbuckling…
Controversy swirled around Upper Louisiana’s third lieutenant governor in life and in death…
Nathaniel Lyon, a US Army officer from 1841 to 1861, was born in rural Ashford (later…
Born on March 14, 1833, near Arrow Rock, Missouri, John Sappington Marmaduke is the only…
During the early months of the Civil War, the Missouri State Guard and the…
In September of 1864, Confederate army troops led by Major General Sterling Price entered…