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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 outskirts ...
The other federal arsenal in Missouri, Liberty Arsenal, had been captured on April 20 (1861) by secessionist militias and, concerned by widespread reports that Governor Jackson intended to use the Missouri Volunteer Militia to also attack the St. Louis Arsenal and capture its 39,000 small arms, Secretary of War Simon Cameron ordered Lyon (by ...
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.
National Video Game and Coin-Op Museum, St. Louis, closed in 1999 [68] Nance Museum, Lone Jack, collection of Saudi Arabian art and artifacts, [69] donated to the University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, Missouri in 2003 [70] Ozarks Afro-American Heritage Museum, Ash Grove, closed in 2013, collection now online [71]
The city of St. Louis was a strategic location during the American Civil War, holding significant value for both Union and Confederate forces. As the largest city in the fiercely divided border state of Missouri and the most important economic hub on the upper Mississippi River, St. Louis was a major launching point and supply depot for campaigns in the Western and Trans-Mississippi Theaters.
Over 27 people were killed and the Camp Jackson Affair helped to polarize the state and send Missouri down the road to its own internal civil war. Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, Mo., the scene of great excitement on the departure of the Fourth Regiment of Missouri Volunteers to take possession of Bird's Point, Mo., opposite Cairo, Ill.
The Missouri State Militia was a federally funded state militia organization of Missouri conceived in 1861 and beginning service in 1862 during the American Civil War.It was a full-time force whose primary purpose was to conduct offensive operations against Confederate guerrillas and recruiters as well as oppose raids by regular Confederate forces.
Military Division of the Missouri; Minutemen (Missouri Secessionist Paramilitaries) Missouri Compromise; Missouri Constitutional Convention of 1861–1863; Missouri secession; Missouri State Militia (Union) Missouri Volunteer Militia; Mount Zion Church and Cemetery (Hallsville, Missouri)