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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 relied on the “Peculiar Institution,” were openly hostile to their new occupying military gov...

Listen / This photo from the 1850s shows men outside one of what were known as "Lynch's slave pens" in downtown St. Louis. Two Democratic lawmakers want to commemorate one of the most sordid chapters in local history at one of downtown St. Louis’ most visited sites — and they say the St. Louis Cardinals are on board for the project. More than a century before it became an entrance to Ballpark Village, the entertainment complex at Busch Stadium, the corner of Broadway and Clark held one of several sites known as “Lynch’s Slave Pens.” The pens took their name from...

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 Lynch's Slave Pens. Lynch's 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 located in the area of the current Busch Stadium. Reached via email, Gunby told me: “After touring ...

St. Louis lawmakers want to mark ‘the horror and history where Busch Stadium now stands’ Kayla Wheeler © Provided by KSDK-TV St. Louis Two St. Louis-area lawmakers are asking the St. Louis Cardinals to put up a marker at a former slave pen site near Busch Stadium. On Jan. 18, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Representatives Rasheen Aldridge and Trish Gunby sent a letter to Cardinals president Bill DeWitt. In the letter, they ask the organization to erect the marker to recognize “the horror and history where Busch Stadium now stands.” The former slave pen site at Broadway ...