Memphis

William Downing House

Athens

Battle of Athens SHS
A Missouri State Park commemorates this 1861 battle.

Battle of Athens
Site along the Iowa border in extreme northeast Missouri was the scene of the battle of August 5, 1861. The Battle of Athens was the northern-most battle fought in the American Civil War.

Kirksville

Battle of Kirksville
Forces under John McNeil inflicted a major defeat on Col. Joseph Porter's command in a battle fought throughout the town on August 6, 1862, bringing to an end Porter's famous 1862 raid into northeast Missouri.

Confederate Monument
Two monuments to the southern dead at the Battle of Kirksville are located at Forrest-Llewelyn Cemetery.

Palmyra

Palmyra Massacre Monument

Florida

Mark Twain Birthplace SHS

Mark Twain SP
Mark Twain State Park incorporates the ruins of most of the town of Florida, Mark Twain's birthplace. Within the park is the ruins of the Baker/Goodier house, where U.S. Grant maintained his headquarters in July, 1861.

Mexico

The Ross House
This antebellum home is said to have been visited by U.S. Grant while he was commanding Union forces in Mexico in July, 1861. Site is now home to the Audrain County Historical Society and its Graceland Museum.

Danville

The Baker Plantation

St. Louis

Bellefontaine Cemetery
Home of 87,000 graves of St. Louis' most prominent historical figures, this is the nation's most impressive historical cemetery lying West of the Mississippi River. Civil War figures, Union and Confederate, include such notables as John Pope, Sterling Price, Don Carlos Buell and Alexander P. Stewart. (see Features)

Calvary Cemetery
St. Louis' historic Catholic Cemetery is situated next to Bellefontaine Cemetery in north St. Louis. Calvary is the resting place of William T. Sherman and Dred and Harriet Scott, among other Civil War notables.

Jefferson Barracks Historical Park
Jefferson Barracks was a United States Army Military post from 1826-1946. The museum buildings date back to the 1850's. The post was for many years the most important station on the frontier, and as a consequence more officers who would become generals, of both armies, served here before the Civil War than at any other place. The site is now a park operated by St. Louis County.

U. S. Grant Nat. Historic Site
Established as a unit of the National Park Service in 1990, the park commemorates the life, military career, and Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant, as well as his wife Julia Dent Grant. The site, also known as White Haven, consists of 9.65 acres holding five historic structures (main house, stone building, barn, chicken house, and ice house).(Description courtesy of National Park Service).

Camp Jackson Site
Now the site of St. Louis University and a Mid-Town cultural center known as Grand Center, the area once known as Lindell's Grove was the camp site of the Missouri State Militia in May, 1861. On the 10th of May, regular U.S. troops and specially enrolled home guard units under command of Nathaniel Lyon precipitated a confrontation here. The Camp Jackson incident was the first military action in the Civil War involving organized infantry on both sides. The first Union officer to die in battle, Capt. Constantin Blandowski, received his mortal wound here.

Grant's Farm
Grant's Farm is a 281 acre wildlife preserve and historical site located just south of the city of St. Louis, Missouri and is operated by Anheuser-Busch, Inc. The park takes its name from the reconstructed log cabin which U.S. Grant built north of here, while he farmed part of the land in the park.

Missouri History Museum
Museum devoted to Missouri's history is also home to the Missouri Historical Society, which has a premier research library covering western history. Extensive collection of Civil War weapons and artifacts are not currently displayed.

Old Courthouse
Now part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, this building was the site of the first two trials of the Dred Scott case, in 1847 and 1850, which lead to the Supreme Court decision which ignited the Civil War. The east steps, facing the Gateway Arch, was the scene of slave auctions before the War, and is where, in 1859, U.S. Grant freed his only slave.

Father Dickson Cemetery
Historic African-American Cemetery in South St. Louis County contains many notable graves, including Moses Dickson and James Milton Turner, founders of Lincoln University. Turner was the first U.S. diplomat of African-American descent to serve as Ambassador to a foreign nation.

Fee Fee Cemetery
Old cemetery in northwest St. Louis County contains the grave of James Utz, member of a prominent southern family who was executed by Federal authorities in 1864.

Jefferson Barracks Nat. Cemetery
Located several miles south of the city, Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery surrounds the Old Post Cemetery of Jefferson Barracks which predated the Civil War. The Barracks was a major medical facility during the Civil War, accounting for thousands of union burials here.

Oak Hill Cemetery
This cemetery, in the southwest part of St. Louis County, is site of the graves of Benjamin Gratz Brown and Solomon Kitchen.

Sherman Gravesite
The grave of William Tecumseh Sherman is located in St. Louis' Calvary Cemetery, and adjoins the graves of his son Willy, who died in 1863, and wife Ellen Ewing Sherman.

Confederate Memorial
Placed in Forest Park in 1914 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The inscription was written by Dr. R.C. Cave, who was the author of "The Men in Gray."

Franz Sigel Monument
Equestrian statute of famous union Major General Franz Sigel, perhaps most famous for losing the Battle of New Market in Virginia. Although an unsuccessful soldier in the United States, he remained a hero to German-Americans after the war, and his statute in St. Louis' Forest Park was dedicated by and to Union veterans of the German descent.

Hardscrabble Farm Marker
Monument along Rock Hill Road in South St. Louis County marks the original location of Grant's Cabin on his "Hardscrabble Farm."

Lyon Park
This city park is on the site of the St. Louis Arsenal, which was in 1861 the largest federal munitions depot in the West, and headquarters to Nathaniel Lyon, the Northern hero of the Battle of Wilson's Creek. Two monuments to Lyon are located in the park.