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By Editor | April 21, 2021 By MARK EVANS mevans@stegenherald.com One of a handful of Civil War soldiers buried in historic Memorial Cemetery was honored on the anniversary of his burial on April 14. J. Felix St. James, a successful local lawyer and mayor of Ste. Genevieve, was a lieutenant colonel in the Missouri 13th Infantry, fighting at the Battle Fort Donaldson, Tennessee in February 1862 and the bloody Battle of Shiloh in April 1862. He was killed during the Battle of Shiloh, in Tennessee on April 8, 1862. He was transported nearly 200 miles back to Ste. Genevieve by river craft and was interred in the cemetery on April 14, following a ceremony at the stone church. St. James is one of only five Civil War veterans known to be buried in the historic cemetery, which closed for burials in 1881. (There are well over 100 Civil War veterans buried at Valle Springs Cemetery and possibly hundreds more buried throughout the county.) ....
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