Helen Viola Jackson is shown this April 2017 photo. Jackson was believed to be the last surviving widow of a Civil War soldier when she died Dec. 16, 2020 in Marshfield, Mo. She was 101.

Scholars, genealogists, or other researchers need only go to the Missouri Secretary of State's web site, the State Archives section, and click on the Civil War Provost Marshal Index Database.

Among the speakers at a symposium on military, political and social history of the war in Missouri between September and October of 1864 was Walter E. Busch.

The 160th anniversary of a Civil War raid into Missouri is being remembered with reenactments, tours, seminars and other events around the state this fall, including an event in Southwest ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Police in Kansas City, Missouri, have agreed as part of a lawsuit settlement to stop banning protesters from returning to areas in the city where the protests were held ...

Wallemann said the group tries to inform the English public about the American Civil War and its widespread effect on history. "As far as we know, this is the only camp of Sons of Union Veterans ...

In December, parties to the brutal civil war in Yemen began talks to try to achieve something history shows is relatively rare: a successful peace settlement. "The large majority of civil wars end ...

"Southern Cross, North Star: The Cultural Politics of Civil War Memory in Missouri and the Middle Border, 1865-1915" will be the topic when the Harold Holmes Dugger Lecture is presented April 16 ...

Check out Jeff Shrader’s appraisal of a Civil War 6th Missouri union officer group in Springs Preserve, Hour 3. Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry and American Cruise Lines ...

Several Civil War heritage organizations have recognized Jackson’s quiet role in history, one that she hid for all but the final three years of her life, said Nicholas Inman, her pastor and longtime ...

Bolin was also a Civil War veteran who fought for the Union in the border state of Missouri. Jackson was almost certainly the last remaining widow of a Civil War soldier when she died Dec. 16 at a ...