Watch The Video On TikTok!  Price’s Raid in 1864 saw Sterling Price lead Confederate cavalry across Missouri—from Pilot Knob to Westport—ending Confederate hopes in the state. In the fall of 1864, Confederate Maj. Gen. Sterling Price led a sweeping mounted expedition across Missouri. What began as a bid to reclaim a slave state, capture supplies,…

Watch The Video On TikTok! In 1863, General Order No. 11 emptied four Missouri counties, fueling the “Burnt District.” Why it was issued, what it did, and how it reshaped the border war. General Order No. 11 Missouri’s guerrilla war hit a breaking point in late summer 1863. After years of raids and reprisals along…

Watch The Video On TikTok! Missouri women in the Civil War ran farms, nursed the wounded, carried intelligence, and endured reprisals. Meet the unsung heroes of the war. Missouri’s Civil War wasn’t only fought by soldiers. It ran through kitchens, parlors, ferries, churches, and town squares—places where women held families together, cared for the wounded,…