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Title
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Shelby and His Men: Or the War in the West
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Description
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Account of the Battle of Westport by the author, one of Confederate General Joseph Shelby's soldiers for the Confederates.
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Date
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1867
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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General Joseph O. Shelby Undefeated to the Last
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Description
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Postcard image of the Joseph O. Shelby memorial at Forest Hill Cemetery (69th & Troost) and short article about the military career of General Shelby. The memorial pays homage to Confederate soldiers who lost their lives during the Battle of Westport.
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Date
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2011-01-26
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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General Jo Shelby and Johnny Ringo
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Description
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Photo (of General Shelby) and biographical article about General Joseph Shelby and Johnny Ringo, soldiers "in the Missouri Raid of 1864, fought in the Battle of Westport." Shelby described as a Confederate general and Ringo described as a western outlaw (fighting Wyatt Earp and others) after the war killed in Arizona in 1882.
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Date
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1971-12
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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A Joseph Orville Shelby Letter
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Description
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Letter (written in 1888) with editorial commentary from General Joseph Orville Shelby, or Joseph Shelby, to Major C. C. Rainwater about some of his Civil War stories as a former Confederate general in Missouri.
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Date
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1965-05
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Missouri! One Last Time
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Description
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Article provides a detailed account of of the 1864 attempt by forces under the command of General Sterling Price to retake Missouri for the Confederacy. It includes photographs of military leaders and battle grounds and black and white maps of Price's Missouri Expedition and the Battles of Pilot Knob, Glasgow, and Westport.
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Date
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1991-06
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Object Type
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Magazine
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Title
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General Joseph Shelby
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Description
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Photo and chapter of the book about General Joseph Shelby (1830-1897), a prominent Confederate general in Civil War Missouri born in Kentucky and operating as a hemp grower and shipper in Waverly, Missouri and Lexington, Missouri before the war.
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Date
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1900
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Object Type
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Book Section
