On Sunday, at Jefferson Barracks County Park in Lemay — almost 50 miles northeast of where the original battle took place — that skirmish was relived as part of a three-day Civil War re ...

After a sweaty decade of shoveling pigeon droppings and replacing rotted woodwork, the steadfast creators of a new Civil War museum at Jefferson Barracks County ... of the Missouri Civil War ...

With 2011 marking the 150th anniversary of the Civil War's beginning, tourists and history buffs are expected to travel to famous battle sites, such as Gettysburg and Bull Run, in record numbers.

A 1905 plat map of Woodland Cemetery ... Capps' Company (H), Osage County Regiment, Missouri Home Guards. Following the Civil War, the family moved to Jefferson City where William purchased ...

The most important function of Jefferson Barracks during the Civil War was as a hospital, treating Union and Confederate soldiers alike. The Western Sanitary Commission began construction at ...

Housed in the restored Jefferson Barracks 1905 Post Exchange Building, the Missouri Civil War Museum is the oldest active military installation west of the Mississippi River. Within the 22,000 ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A controversial Civil War marker that was removed from display last month in Jefferson City will be returned to the organization that originally donated it. The marker to ...

More than 100 former slaves who fought for the Union in the Civil War but are buried in a mass ... their remains were relocated in 1939 to Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery south of St. Louis.

The Missouri Civil War Museum is new to the Jefferson Barracks Historic Site. "It's really one of a kind in the St. Louis area even in the state. There's not a large collection like this that ...