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CIVIL WAR SYMPOSIUM – OCTOBER 4-5 2019

26 Sep 2019
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Quincy, Illinois, in collaboration with the Tri-States Civil War Round Table (Missouri, Illinois and Iowa) is presenting its second annual Civil War Symposium, “Lincoln, Grant, Twain and Guerilla Warfare in Northeast Missouri.”  A great slate of speakers including Tim...

RIP GENERAL GRANT

20 Jul 2019
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On July 23, 1885, at a rented cabin in Mt. McGregor, New York, Union General and President Ulysses Grant passed away after a long and painful fight with throat cancer.  Back “home” in Missouri, at the Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site near St. Louis, the Ulysses...

Missouri’s Own 8th Infantry to be Featured at Ft. Donelson

21 Jun 2019
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June 29th is the date: Ft. Donelson National Battlefield, Dover, Tennessee, is hosting a re-enactment group from Missouri that honors the memory of the Eighth Missouri Volunteer Infantry (Union).  The men of the real-life regiment, mostly Irishmen and mostly recruited in St....

A Nation at a Tomb

29 May 2019
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The Missouri Humanities Council (in collaboration with the U. S. Grant Trail) will be conducting its 6th Annual U. S. Grant Symposium, this year in St. Louis.  The event is hosted by the Soldiers Memorial Military Museum in Downtown St. Louis and will be held on Friday, August 9,...

New Civil War Marker Honors “Long Roads to Freedom”

18 Apr 2019
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To be dedicated on Thursday, April 18, 2019:  An educational panel on the site of the home of John B. and Mary Henderson, now part of the campus of Harris-Stowe State University.  The marker is a celebration of the lives of St. Louisans who, during the years surrounding the...

Louisiana Missouri Honors A Favorite Son

02 Jul 2018
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A hundred and fifty six years after he left home town Louisiana to serve in the United States Senate, John Brooks Henderson will receive his due on July 4, 2018. This Independence Day, the citizens of Louisiana will dedicate a bust of Henderson that is being placed on a hilltop...

One Armed Terror (Pt. 2)

18 Jun 2018
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The One-Armed Terror Cobb had been able to sneak away while the Union troops were raiding his farm in Montgomery County. His knack for slipping past Union troops unnoticed was surprising, considering he was described as a “mountaineer… forty-five years old- six feet tall,...

One-Armed Terror (Pt. 1)

03 Jun 2018
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Prior to 1861, Alvin Cobb  of  Montgomery County, Missouri was a farmer who was locally known as “one-arm Alvin.” The missing limb having been lost in an accident; although the details remain unclear. Cobb started his Civil War military career as a Captain in the Missouri State...

Hanging Judge of Andersonville

21 May 2018
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                For the last 35 years of his life, Pete McCullough lived quietly in Mexico, Missouri. However, he will be forever known for his decision made long before he moved to Missouri. Called the “Hanging Judge of Andersonville” McCullough gained national notoriety....

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