More than 150 years after his death, Pvt. Preston C. Wall has finally gotten a proper funeral.The Vicksburg Post reported Wall, a Confederate soldier from Company C of the Missouri Infantry, died June ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- No records were kept of the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry, so local artist Essex Garner was told. But he has thousands of photos from those soldiers ...

Former Confederate commanded Missouri regiment in Spanish-American War. October 12, 2020 at 12:18 a.m. | Updated October 14, 2020 at 7:02 p.m.

Pvt. Thomas Jackson, 30, of Audrain County, a member of Company F, 2nd Missouri Confederate Infantry, was among four Missourians killed by Union shelling and sharpshooters this day.

On Oct. 27, 1862, a group of black soldiers had set out on a foraging expedition from Fort Africa. As they crossed over a low hill called Island Mound, the Union men encountered Confederate forces ...

When the Civil War erupted in April 1861, ... He immediately returned to St. Louis to join three of his brothers in the First Missouri Infantry of the Confederate Army under Gen. Sterling Price.

Reynolds marched with Confederate Major General Sterling Price from Arkansas to Missouri in October of 1864. They intended to use military force to turn Missouri into a Confederate state, and ...

A revolutionary lever-action firearm that let a Civil War soldier fire 15 fast shots without reloading was donated to Wilson's Creek National Battlefield on Tuesday. The .44-caliber Model 1860 ...

While many Civil War soldiers pined for action in the early months of the war, those in Missouri had all they could handle. Among them were many Illinois soldiers who endured a "baptism under fire ...