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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...

Two state representatives call on the Cardinals to erect a monument to remember the slave pens near Busch Stadium Rasheen Aldridge and Trish Gunby have asked the baseball team to recognize the location of Lynchs Slave Pens. Lynchs Slave Pens The legacy of slavery in St. Louis has recently come back into the news with word that state representatives Rasheen Aldridge and Trish Gunby have written to the St. Louis Cardinals, requesting the commemoration of Lynch’s Slave Pens, which were locate...