This blog is offered as a service of readers of a new book, A Tour Guide to Missouri’s Civil War: Friend and Foe Alike (Eureka, MO: Monograph Publishing).  Readers are encouraged to participate in a dialogue about the unique brand of Civil War that we experienced in Missouri.  To comment, or to obtain travel tips, use the masthead link to email the author; We promise that your questions and comments will appear in a blog post open to comments by our other readers.  That is, except for comments that are inappropriate to a civil discourse.

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Greg Wolk is a St. Louis lawyer and is President of Missouri’s Civil War Heritage Foundation, Inc. He frequently addresses civic and other organizations on the importance of developing Missouri’s Civil War resources in time to realize the maximum economic benefit from the upcoming sesquicentennial. A life-long Civil War enthusiast, Mr. Wolk no longer reads anything about the Civil War in the East and South. He knows every detail of what happened on the first day at Gettysburg, and on the second day, and on the third day. He knows how each event of the battle relates to each other event. He has not read a book in 20 years that has said anything new on that subject.

Forty-five percent of all battles or engagements in 1861 occurred in Missouri, as did 45% of all casualties in that year.  This should bode well for 2011.