But if you’re from Missouri — who knows?” Starting this month, the national focus will be on Civil War anniversaries in the East, where the best-known battles occurred. But fighting started ...

Missouri would like some of that attention — only Virginia and Tennessee contain more Civil War battle sites. Missouri was on the western front of the Civil War. The Battle of Wilson's Creek was ...

Missouri soon will be displaying an array of battle flags from the Civil War. The Missouri State Museum has overseen the conservation of 45 flags. The museum is displaying seven flags at a time in ...

Missouri, and New Mexico Dividing the war into three theaters allows for more precise discussions of the Civil War battles and tactics. Most of the battles took place in the Eastern Theater ...

PILOT KNOB, MO. • Rattling musket ... in a smoky rendition of a battle that crippled the last Confederate hopes for winning Missouri near the end of the Civil War. About 1,400 re-enactors ...

Almost 800 burials are shown within a small section of the sprawling field of one the most bitter battles of the American Civil War. The 150-year-old, recently digitized map depicts the Battle of ...

Dozens of people sat on the edges of their seats Saturday at the Missouri State Archives in Jefferson City as speakers detailed Civil War efforts ... past manager of the Battle of Pilot Knob ...