Bellefontaine Cemetery and the Civil War
Last weekend I was in the St. Louis area for my nieces Communion. Afterwards we had lunch and then started our trek back to our home in south-central Missouri. However, we decided to make a pit stop along the way at Bellefontaine Cemetery in north St. Louis to visit a few Civil War graves. I [...]
Civil War 150th Anniversary: What it should mean to Missourian’s
Missouri was third in the number of battles that took place within it’s borders, behind Virginia and Tennessee, however when one looks at all the minor engagements and even what happened along the border in the 1850′s Missouri was probably THE major battleground for the Civil War (at least in my and a few others [...]
