Florida, 4/10/2026— Parker Publishers has released The Last Battle of the Civil War, April 1867, the first installment in The ...

"In our youths, our hearts were touched with fire." This quote from a speech given by Oliver Wendall Holmes demonstrates the profound effects the Civil War had on our ancestors. Up to 80% of those who ...

A local Civil War museum is under new guidance after Carthage Mayor Bren Flanigan recently appointed an oversight board that ...

On July 5, 1861, the quiet prairie and farmland around Carthage was rocked by the sounds of cannon, muskets, soldiers yelling ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) - The Missouri Department of Conservation will host a hike of Civil War locations in southeast Missouri on July 23. Guides will take hikers on a 2.5 mile hike on Holly Ridge ...

O'FALLON, Mo. — Helen Viola Jackson's 1936 marriage to James Bolin was unusual to say the least: He was 93 and in declining health, and she was a 17-year-old schoolgirl. Bolin was also a Civil War ...

At the crossroads of progress and justice, Missouri shaped the path of a divided nation. Crossroads of a Nation, Part II: Rifts, Roads and Civil Rights explores Missouri's journey from Civil War ...

CARTHAGE, Mo. — July 5 has long been a historic day in Carthage, as residents remember an early battle of the Civil War that happened there July 5, 1861. But this year, the day had a special flavor.

A pre-Civil War burial site is at the center of a sheriff's department and coroner's investigation in Cape Girardeau, Mo.

Federal agencies deposited millions of Civil War records in National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) over the years. The originals for most of the records I am discussing are among those.