WASHINGTON TWP. — The audience was silent on the afternoon of Friday, March 8, when Clara Barton stepped out of the past, visited the Washington Township Public Library and told
It was August 6, 1862, when Confederate officer Colonel Joseph C. Porter, who was in Northeast Missouri recruiting new soldiers for the Confederate Army, decided to take a stand in Kirksville against his pursuer, Union Colonel John McNeil. The Union soldiers were fully armed and ready for battle. The Confederate recruits were not, but they took a stance the best they could.