Benton Barracks News Today

Daniel G. Clark reviews newspaper accounts of the 1st Iowa African regiment (which included Alexander Clark) during the Civil War.

The park will be named Oglesby Park after Benjamin Oglesby, an enslaved man who was brought to the area from Virginia in 1837.

The latest Women of Taunton explores the life and work of Emily Elizabeth Parsons, Civil War nurse and founder of Mount Auburn Hospital.

Trolling through newspaper archives for the good stuff can take months or years. The quirky, the weird, the offbeat is always buried in the backlog,...

Pvt. Martin Brockway, 4th Michigan Infantry, could be considered a typical Civil War soldier. He was young, a farmer and likely felt a need to serve.

A Civil War soldier’s extraordinary journey

True West Magazine Possibly identified in 2012 as Alonzo F. Thompson of Company C, 84th New York Infantry Regiment, (earlier known as 14th Regiment New York State Militia). The young soldier is wearing a Union zouave uniform with bayoneted 1855 rifle musket with initials A.T. on stock. – Courtesy Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Library of Congress/Source: Martinez, Ramona. “Photo Mystery Solved, Then Doubted, Then Deciphered, Thanks to Readers”; http://www.npr.org/...

Clark County History: Benjamin Eulalie de Bonneville By Martin Middlewood for The Columbian Published: February 14, 2021, 6:00am Share: An officer of the U.S. Army, fur trapper and explorer, French-born Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville blazed portions of the Oregon Trail and explored the American West. In 1837, Washington Irving published a biography based on interviews of Bonneville, who relayed the explorations. Bonneville served as commander at the Fort Vancouver Barr...

What was prison life like in St. Louis during the Civil War? Over the course of the war, the Union Army turned to two different prisons in downtown St. Louis to control rebellious citizens and send a message to the entire city. Painting of Gratiot Street Prison by Martin Stadler, c. 1864-65 When the Union Army seized control of St. Louis in 1861, it had a problem. While a large portion of the immigrant population was anti-slavery, much of the native residents, whose wealth and economic ties rel...