The Missouri Governor's Mansion hosted its candlelight tours on Friday, Dec. 1, and Monday, Dec. 4.During a tour, one could walk through the Madison Street gate
From the Battle of Mine Creek by Samuel Reader.
The Battle of Gettysburg may have been the turning point of the Civil War, but no one told the Confederates that, especially in the West.
In August 1864, Confederate Maj. Gen. Sterling Price received an order to take the fight to the North, capture St. Louis and make Abraham Lincoln a one-term president.
The resulting offensive was one of the largest mounted cavalry attacks of the war, and it cost the Confederacy dearly. One Union soldier, a 20-year-old private from Iowa, earned the Medal of Honor for compounding the South s failure.
A cutting from the 1897 book The Story of American Heroism depicts a wounded Dunlavy taking Gen. Marmaduke s weapon, apparently just by virtue of proximity.