Bethany

Prentiss Gravesite
Grave of Benjamin Prentiss, USA, the hero of the "Hornet's Nest" at Shiloh, is located in Miriam Cemetery.

St. Joseph

Jesse James Home & Museum
This small house, which is part of the Patee House Museum complex, it the place where Jesse James was killed in 1882.

Patee House Museum
Built as a hotel in 1858, this building was the headquarters of the Pony Express during its brief existence in 1860. The hotel was occupied by the Union Army during the War. It is now a museum operated by the Pony Express Historical Association.

Mt. Mora Cemetery
St. Joseph's oldest and most historic cemetery is the resting place of 13 union and confederate generals, and 300 other veterans of the Civil War.

Thompson Gravesite
M. Jeff Thompson, the legendary Swamp Fox of the Confederacy, rests in Mt. Mora Cemetery in St. Joseph.

Kearney

James Farm & Museum

Jesse James Gravesite

Liberty

Battle of Blue Mills Landing

Jesse James Bank Museum

Jewell Hall
William Jewell College's main administration building, Jewell Hall, served as a hospital following the Battle of Blue Mills Landing in 1861.

Richmond

Anderson Gravesite
William "Bloody Bill" Anderson was killed several miles southwest of Richmond on October 26, 1864, and his body was brought to Richmond and buried in an unmarked grave in Richmond's Pioneer Cemetery. The grave was marked in recent years; The marker is in the southwest corner of the cemetery.

Bob Ford Gravesite
Grave of Robert "Bob" Ford, assassin of Jesse James, is located in Richmond Cemetery.

Pioneer Cemetery
Richmond's most historic cemetery is located just north of town at Thornton and Crispin Streets. It contains the graves of two major figures in Mormon Church history, Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer, and is also the site of the ignominous end of Bloody Bill Anderson's life.

Kansas City

Battle of Westport & Driving Tour

Forest Hill Cemetery
Kansas City's most historic cemetery was established on the site of Shelby's last stand during the Battle of Westport. JO Shelby is buried here, along with many veteran's of his famous Missouri Brigade.

Harris-Kearney House & Westport Historical Soc.
Offices and museum of the Westport Historical Society are located in the 1855 Harris-Kearney House. The house was moved to its current location in the 1920's; It was a witness to the 1864 battle of Westport.

Battle of Byram's Ford
Battle on 10/22/64 by Union troops to delay Shelby's advance on Kansas City, and was opening operation in the Battle of Westport. Defended by CSA troops under J.S. Marmaduke on 10/23/64 to block Pleasonton's cavalry's approach to Westport.

Wornall House Museum
In 1858 John Bristow Wornall completed his brick farmhouse that stood in the center of a 500 acre farm. During the Battle of Westport in 1864, both armies used the farmhouse as a field hospital. Today the house has been restored to its original period to interpret the daily lives of a frontier farm family. (Description courtesy of Jackson County Historical Society of Missouri)

Shelby Gravesite
The modest grave of Joseph Orville Shelby, CSA, is located in Forest Hill Cemetery near the monument which commemorates his last stand at the Battle of Westport.

Union Cemetery
Highlights of this cemetery just south of downtown Kansas City are the gravesites of George Caleb Bingham and Josephine Anderson, sister of Bloody Bill Anderson, who was killed in the 1863 Kansas City jail collapse, and a Confederate monument dedicated in 1911 to the memory of 15 confederate Unknowns who died as prisoners of war in Kansas City.

Order No. 11 Marker
Marker placed by Missouri State Parks' Civil War Marking Program is adjacent to the restored Pacific Hotel building, where Gen'l Thomas Ewing had his headquarters when he issued his infamous "Order No. 11" in 1863.

Independence

1859 Jail and Museum
Jackson County Jail and Marshall's Home on the Square in Independence is maintained in its appearance at the time of the Civil War by the Jackson County Historical Society.

Battle of Independence (1st)

Battle of Independence (2nd)

Battle of Little Blue
(8 miles east of downtown Independence)

Frank James Gravesite

Todd Gravesite
George Todd, one of Quantrill's principal lieutanants, was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery following his death, October 23, 1864, at the Battle of Independence (2nd).

Woodlawn Cemetery
Resting place of many of Quantrill's men, including casualties of the First and Second Battles of Independence. Confederate monument placed in 1934 is on the grounds.

Battle of Independence Marker
Marker placed by the Missouri Parks' Civil War Marker program commemorates the First Battle of Independence, August 11, 1862.

Lexington

Battle of Lexington SHS

Lexington Historical Museum

Battle of Lexington (1st)

Battle of Lexington (2nd)

Machpelah Cemetery
This cemetery, operated by what is believed to be the oldest corporation in existence in Missouri, is the site of burial of a number of Civil War figures, and the site itself was a Civil War battlefield - the "Battle Among the Dead" which was part of the Lexington fight.

Slayback Gravesite
The grave of Col. Alonzo Slayback, State Guard officer and one of Shelby's lieutenants, is located in Lexington's Macpelah cemetery.

Lee's Summit

Cole Younger Gravesite

Lees Summit Historical Cemetery

Lone Jack

Lone Jack Battlefield & Cemetery

Battle of Lone Jack
A small, brutal battle took place here on August 16, 1862. Efforts to preserve and expand the site are under way under the auspices of The Friends of Historic Lone Jack, Inc.

Civil War Museum of Jackson County

Higginsville

Confederate Memorial SHS
Grounds of former Confederate Home is now a Missouri State Historic Site. Cemetery on site includes the grave of John T. Graves, "the last of Shelby's men," and the partial remains of William Clark Quantrill.

Quantrill Gravesite

Carrollton

James Shields Gravesite

Keytesville

Sterling Price Museum

Sterling Price Monument

Glasgow

Battle of Glasgow

Glasgow Marker
Interpretative panel located at Market and Water Streets on the Glasgow waterfront describes the 1864 Battle of Glasgow. Placed by the Missouri Civil War Marker Program of the State Parks system.

Marshall

Battle of Marshall

Battle of Marshall Marker
Interpretative panel in Indian Foothills Park describes this 1864 battle. Placed by the Missouri Civil War Marker Program of the State Parks system.