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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.)
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 in 2009 [67]
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of March 13, 2009 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
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 .
By the end of the first year of the war, over 5,000 sick and wounded had been admitted and, by the end of the war, well over 18,000 soldiers had been treated at Jefferson Barracks Hospital. In 2002, The Missouri Civil War Museum was founded, which finished restoration in 2013. It is now located in the old 1905 Post Exchange and Gymnasium Building.
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]
Benton Barracks (or Camp Benton) was a Union Army military encampment, established during the American Civil War, in St. Louis, Missouri, at the present site of the St. Louis Fairground Park. Before the Civil War, the site was owned and used by the St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Association , which at the time was located on the ...
These were not the first hospital ships employed by the Civil War governments; previous ships used as hospitals, like the hospital ship CSS St. Philip (formerly the Star of the West) in September 1861 and April 1862, retained patients for long periods of time (30–90 days easily) and stayed on station rarely travelling. The Sanitary Commission ...