Before the Civil War, almost nobody in Missouri supported the abolition of ... made highly controversial use of the state militia to battle bushwackers who attempted to interfere in the election ...

The Black devils fought like tigers,” said one Tom Truman of Butler, Missouri, according to The New York Times in November ...

Thomas Caute Reynolds, a native of South Carolina, became the lieutenant governor of Missouri before the Civil War. He was so dead ... with drunkenness in the battles last October, near ...

Housed in the restored Jefferson Barracks 1905 Post Exchange Building, the Missouri Civil War Museum is the oldest active military installation west of the Mississippi River. Within the 22,000 ...

Kansas and Missouri put a stop to this kind of back-and-forth business poaching more than five years ago when officials in both states agreed to a ceasefire in the so-called economic border war.