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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO04_battle-of-springfield_Springfield-MO.html
This point marks the farthest advance of the Confederates into the city. After finally routing the 72nd Enrolled Missouri Militia, Confederates were forming along Walnut Street for the final assault into the city when drums along Jordan Creek to t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNW9_pioneer-mother-monument_Kansas-City-MO.html
People Of Kansas CityByHoward VandersliceTo CommemorateThe Pioneer MotherWho With Unfaltering TrustIn God Suffered The HardshipOf The Unknown WestTo Prepare For Us A HomelandOf Peace And PlentyAlexander Phimister Proctor - Sculptor - MCMXXVII
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNN7_bollinger-mill-burfordville-covered-bridge_Whitewater-MO.html
(Front):Bollinger MillMaj. George Frederick Bollinger built the first mill here in 1800, on a 640-acre grant from Louis Lorimier, Spanish Commandant of Cape Girardeau district of Upper Louisiana. A German Swiss from North Carolina, Bollinger visit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNLG_altenburg_Altenburg-MO.html
(Front):Some 700 Saxon Lutherans settled, 1839, in Perry County and formed the parishes of Altenburg, Wittenberg, Dresden, Seelitz, Frohna, and one settlement, Johannisburg, in Cape Girardeau County. The community of Paltzdorf (Uniontown) was orga…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNKD_springfield_Brookline-MO.html
(Front):Queen City of the Ozarks, settled in 1830 by Tennessee pioneers on what had been a Kickapoo, Osage, and Delaware Indian camping ground. Springfield was first called Campbell and Fulbright Springs after its first settlers. Rivalry over loca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNK9_zagonyis-charge_Springfield-MO.html
This marker commemorates one of the most daring and brilliant cavalry charges of the Civil War. Late at night, Oct. 24, 1861, Maj. Charles Zagonyi, commander of Fremont's body guard, with 300 men, including 130 of Maj. White's Prairie Scouts, left…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNK7_battles-beginning-and-end_Republic-MO.html
This Northern spur of Bloody Hill saw the beginning and end of the battle. In the days proceeding the fight, the field before you was the camp of the 1,200 cavalrymen of Colonel James Cawthorne's Missouri State Guard Brigade.
At dawn on August…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNK6_bloody-hill_Republic-MO.html
Fierce changes and countercharges led to heavy casualties on Bloody Hill. Considering the numbers of troops engaged, it was one of the bloodiest fights in the war.
Union artillery batteries on this hill dueled with opposing batteries in the val…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNK1_guibors-battery_Republic-MO.html
From this spot one can imagine the challenge which faced the Confederate army. Further up the hill in front of you, over 4,000 Union soldiers and 10 pieces of artillery were positioned to repulse any Southern effort to regain the high ground. On a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNJX_rout-of-sigels-column_Brookline-MO.html
The Union strategy at Wilson's Creek called for a two-pronged surprise attack. General Lyon's main column with about 4,000 men would strike the Confederate camps from the north, while Col. Franz Sigel's brigade of about 1,200 men would attack from…