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In February 1941, the War Department selected the Springfield municipal golf course as the location for soon to be O'Reilly General Hospital. The city of Springfield donated the golf course to the government. [1] Adjacent to the 160-acre property was the Pythian Home of Missouri built by the Knights of Pythias. [2]
Fire Museum of Missouri, Willow Springs [63] [64] First Due Museum, Hazelwood [65] Fred Bear Museum, Springfield, now incorporated into the Archery Hall of Fame; General Sweeny's Museum of Civil War History, Republic, closed in 2005 [66] International Bowling Museum, St. Louis, moved to Arlington, Texas in 2010; Memoryville USA, Rolla, closed ...
Fort Belvoir Community Hospital, reorganized and redesignated as the Alexander T. Augusta Military Medical Center on 19 May 2023 in honor of Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Alexander T. Augusta, the first African-American Medical Corps officer to serve in the United States Army, during the U.S. Civil War.
The library also has digital access to Civil War genealogical information and some regimental histories. [20] Also on the battlefield site is the Wilson's Creek Civil War Museum (formerly known as the General Sweeny Museum), which contains artifacts and exhibits relating to the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War. [21]
The Second Battle of Springfield took place during the American Civil War on January 8, 1863, in Springfield, Missouri. It is sometimes known as The Battle of Springfield . (The First Battle of Springfield was fought on October 25, 1861, and there was also the better-known Battle of Wilson's Creek , fought nearby on August 10, 1861.)
Civil War Times Illustrated. XLIV (5). ISSN 0009-8094. OCLC 1554811. Moore, John C. (1899). "Missouri in the Civil War". Confederate Military History. Vol. IX. OCLC 25038789. Piston, William Garrett; Hatcher, Richard (2000). Wilson's Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It. University of North Carolina Press.
The First Battle of Springfield was a battle of the American Civil War that took place on October 25, 1861, near Springfield, Missouri. Following the Battle of Wilson's Creek , the Missouri State Guard , a pro- Confederate militia organization, drove north and defeated a Federal (Union) force in the Siege of Lexington .
The Confederate Memorial State Historic Site is a state-owned property occupying approximately 135 acres (55 ha) near Higginsville, Missouri.From 1891 to 1950, the site was used as an old soldiers' home for veterans of the Confederate States Army after the American Civil War.