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During the American Civil War, Mound City was the site of the Mound City Civil War Naval Hospital. The cemetery was used to inter both Union and Confederate soldiers who died while under care at the hospital. After it was officially declared a National Cemetery in 1864, several nearby battlefield cemeteries arranged to have their remains ...
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places website since that time. [3]
The monument's interior features a Memorial Hall, 12 feet square, with two marble-and-glass cases displaying war relics. The Hall remained locked for 25 years because the key had been lost. The key was found again in 1948. [2] The monument was dedicated June 14, 1913. [4] It was restored (2000–01), and rededicated on Veterans Day, November 11 ...
Mound City was founded in 1855. It was named from Sugar Mound nearby, a hill covered with sugar maple trees. [4] During the Civil War, a military post was established at Mound City. On October 25, 1864, Mound City was attacked twice by Confederates retreating south after their defeat at the Battle of Westport. The military post was closed and ...
The Department of Kansas was permanently reorganized on March 16, 1880, after several years of disorganization. The first statewide encampment was held in Topeka in 1882. The last state encampment was held in Emporia in 1943. [1] Over 28,000 Civil War veterans lived in Kansas after 1865; the overwhelming number of these men were Union veterans ...
At the outbreak of the American Civil War in April 1861, Kansas was the newest U.S. state, admitted just months earlier in January. The state had formally rejected slavery by popular vote and vowed to fight on the side of the Union, though ideological divisions with neighboring Missouri, a slave state, had led to violent conflict in previous years and persisted for the duration of the war.
In 1854 Montgomery purchased land near present-day Mound City, Kansas, where he became a leader of local Free-state men and was a fervent abolitionist. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In 1857 he organized and commanded a "Self-Protective Company", using it to order pro-slavery settlers out of the region.
Mound City and Eastern Railway, in McPherson County, South Dakota St. Louis, Missouri , nicknamed Mound City due to the presence of several ceremonial mounds USS Mound City , a gunboat used by the Union in the American Civil War