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LOUIS – In a relentless rainstorm, a groundbreaking ceremony was held, attributing to the sacrifice of African American soldiers during the Civil War ... right here in Missouri and this ...

T.J. Stiles, Author, Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War: Centralia ... have been looking all over Missouri. They've been hearing reports. There's X number of soldiers here.

Tom Wolff “We’ve tended to see soldiers in the 1860s as stoic and heroic—monuments to duty, honor and sacrifice,” says Lesley Gordon, editor of Civil War History, a leading academic ...

The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops ...

Before the Civil War, almost nobody in Missouri supported the abolition ... Jesse James began to see himself as a soldier on the Democrats' side of the struggle. But that political linkage ...