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.

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.

ST. LOUIS -- A vast, virtually unexamined National Archives collection on Missouri's Civil War history is now accessible to Civil War buffs, genealogists and other researchers, thanks to an online ...

A symposium offered by Lillie Camp No. 6 of the Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War, Friends of the Missouri State Archives and the Cole County Historical Society and Museum will focus on ...

"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 ...

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 ...