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Title: Sterling Price
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Major General Sterling Price, Confederate Army.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Group of Civil War Union Officers
Description: Frontal portrait of Union officers Albert Mackay, Carlos Greeley, Phillip Heermans, George Strong and Samuel W. Eager, Jr., and Albert Edwards.
Date: 1862-11-20
Object Type: Photograph

Title: SC15-4 Myers Family Papers Finding Aid
Description: It is believed that the three Myers brothers connected with this collection settled in Kansas. Luther Myers lived in Jackson County, Kansas, and was engaged in the banking business in Whiting. Louis Myers was an attorney in Valley Falls, Jefferson County, Kansas, and served in the Kansas State Legislature. Ireneus Myers appears to have lived in Grasshopper Falls, Kansas. Collection contains primarily correspondence between members of the Myers family written between the years 1858 to 1864. Writers and recipients include Martin Myers and his wife, sons Louis A. Myers, Luther M. Myers and wife Anna, and Ireneus Myers. The majority of the letters were written during the Civil War by both Louis and Ireneus who served in the Union Army. Both brothers as soldiers comment on participation in battles and skirmishes in West Virginia, Arkansas, and Missouri. These include the Battle of Bull Run, Cane Hill, White Sulpher Springs, etc. The life of a soldier is described including camp experiences and battle engagements.
Date: 1854/1864
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: General Sedgewick
Description: John Sedgwick (September 13, 1813 – May 9, 1864) was a teacher, a career military officer, and a Union Army general in the American Civil War, killed by a Confederate sharp-shooter at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House.
Date: 1860~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: General George H. Thomas
Description: George Henry Thomas (July 31, 1816 – March 28, 1870) was a career U.S. Army officer and a Union general during the American Civil War, one of the principal commanders in the Western Theater.
Date: 1860~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: General Burnside
Description: Ambrose Everett Burnside (1824-1881) was commander of the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War.
Date: 1860~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: SC15-9 Dixon and Jordan Family Papers Finding Aid
Description: This collection contains close to 40 Civil War letters written between the Dixon family with some related Jordan family letters. Most were written by men in the family who were soldiers in the Union Army primarily in Company K, 47th Regiment of Illinois Volunteers as well as a few letters from Company E, 112th Regiment of Illinois Volunteers. The Lemuel Dixon family was residing in Stark County, Illinois, during this war-time period. Letters contain news pertaining to the soldier's health as well as other soldiers from the same community back home, camp conditions, troop movements, hospital conditions, politics, and the Rebels.
Date: 1840/1898~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Soldiers Get Overdue Salute
Description: A monument was recently erected in Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery honoring 62 Union soldiers who died protecting Fort Larned, Kansas, during the Civil War. A volunteer at Ft. Larned, Janice Seymore, led the effort to memoralize the soldiers.
Date: 2009-09-20
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Missouri State Guard
Description: A section of this book contains information on the Missouri State Guard active during the Civil War. It includes information on the volunteer militia, volunteers and guerrillas, military suppliers, insignia, and arms and equipage. Cover of the book states, "this book examines the variety of uniforms worn in the first half of the war by militia and volunteers from the divided border states of Missouri, Kentucky and Maryland..." Includes three pages of color illustrations of uniforms worn by the Missouri Volunteer Militia, the Missouri State Guard, and Missouri guerrillas.
Date: 2008
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Recruitement and Fighting in the Civil War
Description: This Black History Month article discusses the recruitment and presence of black troops during the American Civil War. The article describes the initial hesitation by President Lincoln and his administration to allow these black volunteers, who "thronged the recruiting stations," to participate.
Date: 2011-02-25
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: On the Road to Dixie: a Missouri Confederate's Review of the Civil War at its Midpoint.
Description: Article tells the story of Edward Herndon Scott, a schoolteacher from Platte County, Missouri who enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1861.
Date: 2002-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: African American Soldiers in the Border War
Description: Part one is a series about the role of black troops in the border wars fought along the Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas borders. This installment focuses on the political obstacles and controversy surrounding the formation of African American units.
Date: 2010
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Third Iowa Cavalry in Sterling Price's Missouri Raid
Description: Article contains the full text of a long letter from Private Henry D. Townsend to his mother in Iowa. Townsend describes his experiences in the "long chase" after General Sterling Price.
Date: 2010-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

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