the State Historical Society of Missouri
The Battle of Wilson’s Creek or Oak Hills in southwestern Greene County on August 10, 1861, is Missouri’s best-…
![Daniel Bissell. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, Portraits, N38584]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-07/Daniel-Bissell.jpg?h=a09a8e46&itok=sWzc640r "Daniel Bissell. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, Portraits, N38584]")
The builder and commandant of Fort Bellefontaine, General Daniel Bissell served with…
![Lilburn Boggs. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N11644]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-06/Lilburn-Boggs-Portrait.jpg?h=9196c627&itok=RNkG0lH8 "Lilburn Boggs. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N11644]")
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,…
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. [Engraving by Y. B. Welch for Graham’s Magazine, from an original daguerreotype by Peter A. Juley & Son, photographers. Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California Faces: Selections from the Bancroft Library Portrait Collection]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Stephen_Watts_Kearny.jpg?h=cf6f823a&itok=U41HI4sO "Stephen Watts Kearny. [Engraving by Y. B. Welch for Graham’s Magazine, from an original daguerreotype by Peter A. Juley & Son, photographers. Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California Faces: Selections from the Bancroft Library Portrait Collection]")
Stephen Watts Kearny was born on August 30, 1794, in Newark, New Jersey. He was the…
![Nathaniel N. Kinney. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Rolla Research Center, William L. Vandeventer Papers (R1428)]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Nathaniel_N_Kinney.jpg?h=b52d3aca&itok=IzJ8gtIa "Nathaniel N. Kinney. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Rolla Research Center, William L. Vandeventer Papers (R1428)]")
Nathaniel “Nat” N. Kinney has a popular image as a romantic, violent, swashbuckling…
![An artist’s depiction of Fort San Carlos. Constructed under orders from Fernando de Leyba, it played a crucial role in stopping the British attack on St. Louis in 1780. [Walter B. Stevens, ed., History of St. Louis the Fourth City, 1764–1909, vol. 1 (1909)]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Fernando_de_Lebya.jpg?h=e98014da&itok=NUd_VvtK "An artist’s depiction of Fort San Carlos. Constructed under orders from Fernando de Leyba, it played a crucial role in stopping the British attack on St. Louis in 1780. [Walter B. Stevens, ed., History of St. Louis the Fourth City, 1764–1909, vol. 1 (1909)]")
Controversy swirled around Upper Louisiana’s third lieutenant governor in life and in death…