the State Historical Society of Missouri
![George Caleb Bingham’s depiction of the violence and tragedy of the Missouri-Kansas border war in his iconic painting Order No. 11. [State Historical Society of Missouri Art Collection, 1945.0003]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-06/Bingham-Order-11.jpg?h=b1c532a8&itok=jk1r6Mou "George Caleb Bingham’s depiction of the violence and tragedy of the Missouri-Kansas border war in his iconic painting Order No. 11. [State Historical Society of Missouri Art Collection, 1945.0003]")
Civil war raged along the Kansas-Missouri border for nearly a…
![This map shows the layout of the small village of Newtonia as it existed during the Civil War. [Courtesy of Larry Wood]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-First-Battle-of-Newtonia.jpg?h=98386c46&itok=8rip4ZYY "This map shows the layout of the small village of Newtonia as it existed during the Civil War. [Courtesy of Larry Wood]")
During the early months of the Civil War, the Missouri State Guard and the…
![A Union encampment in the Arcadia valley early in the war. Pilot Knob Mountain is at right. [Harper’s Weekly, September 21, 1861]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Battle-of-Pilot-Knob.jpg?h=f8e16983&itok=52QaphHB "A Union encampment in the Arcadia valley early in the war. Pilot Knob Mountain is at right. [Harper’s Weekly, September 21, 1861]")
In September of 1864, Confederate army troops led by Major General Sterling Price entered…
![Sterling Price. [Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery, NPG.2001.40]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Sterling-Price.jpg?h=60c6e37a&itok=61UxQ2UK "Sterling Price. [Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery, NPG.2001.40]")
Born in Prince Edward County, Virginia, on September 11, 1809, Sterling Price was the son…
![Thomas Caute Reynolds. [<em>The Civil Government of the United States and the State of Missouri</em>, 1897]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-03/1.-thomas-caute-reynolds.jpg?h=b8c0628d&itok=IcKo6dOh "Thomas Caute Reynolds. [<em>The Civil Government of the United States and the State of Missouri</em>, 1897]")
Elected lieutenant governor of Missouri in 1860, Thomas Caute Reynolds worked diligently to separate Missouri…
![John McAllister Schofield. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-53021]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-John-McAllister-Schofield.jpg?h=7d9c607f&itok=60oOMUSh "John McAllister Schofield. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-53021]")
John McAllister Schofield was born in Gerry, Chautauqua County, New York, on September 2,…
![Franz Sigel. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpb-05090]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Franz-Siegel.jpg?h=bac0bb5f&itok=WbrCB8IY "Franz Sigel. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpb-05090]")
Franz Sigel, a soldier, editor, and public official, was born in Sinsheim, Baden, on…