The 37th Illinois Volunteer Infantry took part in Fremont’s 1861 campaign, as well as the Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove campaigns. John Charles Black of Danville, Illinois, would ultimately be the 37th’s colonel. His younger brother, Captain William Black (right), won the Congressional Medal of Honor for actions at Pea Ridge. John Charles received the [...]
Mark Twain
Posts and comments in this category are for our northern neighbors who might otherwise seek a Civil War adventure in Tennessee.
For travelers from Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas – and let’s not leave out Indiana and Wisconsin – Missouri is the Civil War destination that offers the best bang for the buck if you plan [...]
Lear is a name that is known to Marion County, Missouri. It is a name known to much of the world, in fact, because a man born in Hannibal in 1902 gave us first the car radio, the 8-track, and then the Lear Jet. He held over 150 U.S. Patents. His name was William Powell [...]
Drive west from Palmyra for 13 miles, to the town of Philadelphia, which is on State Highway 168. At Philadelphia take a turn north on State Route D, which you will follow for about 12 miles. There is a bend in the road here where you will find the graveyard of an old Baptist Church, [...]
The town of Perry, Missouri, bills itself as the gateway to Mark Twain Lake, and it is in southwest Ralls County. Perry is just west of the intersection of Missouri Routes 19 and 154. It is the home of the Ralls County Historicial Society.
South from the intersection of 19 and 154, about 2.2 miles (on [...]
A July sun, in torrid clime, gleamed on exile band, who in suits of gray
Stood in mute array On the banks of the Rio Grande.
They were dusty and faint with their long, drear ride, And they paused when they
came to the river side;
For its wavelets divide
With their glowing tide
Their own [...]
Grant’s Memoirs contain a very famous passage, when he talks about his first near-encounter with a Civil War enemy. The enemy was Brig. Gen. Thomas Harris of the Missouri State Guard. The place was near Samuel Clemens’ birthplace, the town of Florida in Monroe County.
Here is what Grant said: “As we approached the brow of [...]
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