by admin | Oct 21, 2005 | Uncategorized
Several months earlier, Governor Jackson had fled from Jefferson City as General Lyon’s troops moved upstream on the Missouri River. Now it was fall. A federally supported interim government had taken over in Jefferson City with Hamilton Gamble as governor, but...
by admin | Oct 7, 2005 | Uncategorized
They had fought skirmishes with the Confederate troops as the southerners approached the city. Now it was night and the Union soldiers were fortifying themselves for the attack they were sure would come the next morning. The Confederates, making a bold move into...
by admin | Sep 16, 2005 | Uncategorized
Only two men in Missouri history served in two national Senates. One of the men was George Graham Vest. The other,Waldo Porter Johnson, is not as well known. Both served in the United States Senate and in the days of the Civil War both were in the Confederate Senate...
by admin | Aug 15, 2005 | Uncategorized
The man from Washington was visiting with the president-elect on a secret mission. The country was falling apart. War was imminent. The president was powerless to keep it from happening in the final days of his administration. Would the president-elect approve a...
by admin | Aug 5, 2005 | Uncategorized
This battle rates only a few words in the history books of Missouri and hardly any at all in overall Civil War histories. It was the northernmost skirmish west of the Mississippi during that war. However, some of the men who fought in the battle of Athens are...
