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As part of Missouri’s Civil War Heritage Foundation’s Educational Panel Program, the Lafayette Park Conservancy in St. Louis, MO  will be hosting a dedication of their new Civil War Panel “Lafayette Park and Square” this Saturday, May 16th.  The...

Camden County in Missouri is enlisting the help of the City of Osage Beach to put on a Civil War Reenactment.  Reenactments in the past have promoted tourism and helped boost the economy in the area.  This event follows the society losing its state funding, thus prompting help...

With the Civil War’s Sesquicentennial drawing to a close with the anniversary of Appomattox on April 9th, we enter what we at Missouri’s Civil War Heritage Foundation like to call the “Age of Grant.” Following Ulysses S. Grant’s successful military career during the Civil War, we...

The Missouri Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans named the Auxvasse-based Elijah Gates Camp 570 best camp and recognized Gates Camp member Charles (Don) Ernst with the Col. Joseph C. Porter Award for outstanding service. The recognition is well-deserved after the group...

On February 19th, 2015, Missouri’s Civil War Heritage Foundation’s Executive Director, Greg Wolk, and Programs Manager, Caitlin O’Leary, presented the Missouri History Museum with an archival copy of the Battle of Moore’s Mill technical report entitled, “A Desperate and Bloody...

  In 2013, Missouri’s Civil War Heritage Foundation completed an archaeological dig, funded by the National Parks Service’s American Battlefield Protection Program, on the site of the Battle of Moore’s Mill in Callaway County, Missouri.  Students and...

Missouri’s Civil War Heritage Foundation invites you to the dedication of our newest educational panel, “Grant in Southeast Missouri.”  The panel commemorates Ulysses S. Grant’s military operations in Missouri and the start of his campaign from Cape...

Last month, our Programs Director, Caitlin O’Leary, brought Missouri’s Civil War Heritage Foundation to a local celebration of The Archaeological Institute of America’s International Archaeology Day at the U.S. Grant National Historic Site.  Beautiful October...

As we continue to commemorate the 150th anniversary of General Sterling Price’s raid through Missouri, we would like to draw special attention to a particular discussion. Historian at Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield, Connie Langum, will host a presentation and...

Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri serves as the final resting place for more than 86,000 souls, and counting.   Twelve Union and Confederate generals are buried here, and the other thirty-eight Civil War figures that lay to rest at Bellefontaine range from emancipated...