..September 4th, Saturday, 11:00 a.m….come and show your
appreciation to these vets and ALL vets and their families on the
museum grounds.Richmond, Missouri 816-776-2305

email- raycountymuseum@yahoo.com

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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

For August and September leading up to the Festival:

During August while others are getting geared up and working on the grounds and museum:

· Simple sewing and repairing of costumes

· Helping at the museum during open hours/days for answering the phone, door-greeter, tour guides

· Collecting any clothing from garage sales, etc that can be used for costumes

· Helping to clean up the grounds and ready for any set up on the grounds

· Recruiting other volunteers, we can Never have enough people helping

· Scouts are MORE than welcome and can earn points as well as school students for their community service hours

The weekend of Festival:

· Grounds clean up

· Answering phone and greeting at the door

· ‘Floor walkers’ inside the museum for assisting tours

· Grounds walkers to assist vendors/demonstrators/vistitors

· Grounds walkers will also be needed to ‘go-fer’ and assist  for bathroom and meal breaks

· Helping to dress/costume the volunteers and visitors

· Tables, booth set up assistance

· Serving at the tables at the grill

· Directing parking

· Taking money at the gates

· Clean up of the grounds after the festival- MUCH needed

We will need floor walkers inside the museum at All times. We also prefer to have enough volunteers to switch every two hours so no-one will miss out on anything or stay inside for too long.

There are more duties that we’ll need help with, but this is a start. If you have a special interest and it’s not listed, please, feel free to include this in your sign-up.

And, we THANK YOU for your time and efforts in getting this huge under-taking!

EVERYONE IS TO BE IN PERIOD COSTUME- VOLUNTEERS WHO SIGN UP AND ARE THERE TO PARTICIPATE WILL NOT BE CHARGED RENTAL FOR YOUR COSTUME IF YOU STAY YOUR APPOINTED TIMES.

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Update on events:
The 100th Birthday ceremony for the Poor Farm building will be moved to June 19, Saturday evening.
Which, also happens to be our ICE CREAM social and wiener roast!
This is the first fund-raiser for the year and going to be Lots of fun! Bring the kids, bring your lawn chairs and enjoy! Cake walk, music, LOTS of ice cream and fun!

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JUNE 26, JULY 17, SEPTEMBER 11, OCOTOBER 9

Investigation/class options

Ghosts 101 $12.00 2 Hour investigation $30.00 Presenation & 2 hours investigation $40.00 4 Hour Investigation $55.00 Presentation & 4 hour investigation $65.00

Paranormal Adventures at the museum! Print off the flyer (below) sign up with cash, check or Paypal and come on and join the fun! Who knows what lurks………

Print off the flyer (below) sign up with cash, check or Paypal and come on and join the fun! Who knows what lurks………

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VOLUNTEERS FOR RE-ENACTMENT/LIVING HISTORY FESTIVAL

RAY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, RICHMOND, MISSOURI

SEPTEMBER 24^TH AND 25^TH, 2010

EMAIL- raycountymuseum@yahoo.com or 816-776-2305

901 West Royle, Richmond, Missouri 64085

Donations are very much appreciated toward this event-

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

For August and September leading up to the Festival:

During August while others are getting geared up and working on the grounds and museum:

· Simple sewing and repairing of costumes

· Helping at the museum during open hours/days for answering the phone, door-greeter, tour guides

· Collecting any clothing from garage sales, etc that can be used for costumes

· Helping to clean up the grounds and ready for any set up on the grounds

· Recruiting other volunteers, we can Never have enough people helping

· Scouts are MORE than welcome and can earn points as well as school students for their community service hours

The weekend of Festival:

· Grounds clean up

· Answering phone and greeting at the door

· ‘Floor walkers’ inside the museum for assisting tours

· Grounds walkers to assist vendors/demonstrators/vistitors

· Grounds walkers will also be needed to ‘go-fer’ and assist  for bathroom and meal breaks

· Helping to dress/costume the volunteers and visitors

· Tables, booth set up assistance

· Serving at the tables at the grill

· Directing parking

· Taking money at the gates

· Clean up of the grounds after the festival- MUCH needed

We will need floor walkers inside the museum at All times. We also prefer to have enough volunteers to switch every two hours so no-one will miss out on anything or stay inside for too long.

There are more duties that we’ll need help with, but this is a start. If you have a special interest and it’s not listed, please, feel free to include this in your sign-up.

And, we THANK YOU for your time and efforts in getting this huge under-taking!

EVERYONE IS TO BE IN PERIOD COSTUME- VOLUNTEERS WHO SIGN UP AND ARE THERE TO PARTICIPATE WILL NOT BE CHARGED RENTAL FOR YOUR COSTUME IF YOU STAY YOUR APPOINTED TIMES.

NAME ___________________________________________________________________

ADDRESS _________________________________________________________________

EMAIL ________________________________________PHONE ______________________

I WOULD LIKE TO VOLUNTEER TO : ____________________________________________

Jason Offutt, Author and ‘home grown’ Ray Countian will be our guest at the Ray County Museum, Saturday,April 24^th, 2010. His new book “What Lurks Beyond: The Paranormal in Your Backyard” ( A New Odyssey Series) will be available in April, 2010 and available through Amazon.

This is just one of the many books that Jason has written among:

• The Shadow People Among us

• Haunted Missouri: A Ghostly Guide to the Show-Me-State’s Most Spirited Spots

• What Lurks Beyond: The Paranormal in Your Backyard (New Odyssey Series) - April

• Ghost Hunting Missouri

So, bring your books and have Jason sign them for you along with refreshments and meeting the author!

Jason’s Blog-

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^{September 24 & 25 2010}

If you have a period skill and would like to be a demonstrator/vendor or a volunteer, please contact me.

COSTUMES (1800′S) ARE MANDATORY

Landis Light Artilliary

Coffee’s 6^th Missouri Cavalry

1^st person characters on the grounds

Living history, demonstrations on

1800’s way of life

Friday,September 24, characters teaching

The school children/classes the ways of the

1800’s

Saturday:

Demonstrators and re-enactors

Details coming soon

If you’re a vendor/demonstrator in this venue

And would like to donate your time and talents and/or monetary,

Please contact me at:

raycountymuseum@yahoo.com

Much more will be going on this weekend- Details to follow soon.

(The re-enactors are MCWRA sanctioned, this event is not sanctioned by the MCWRA. Maybe Next year!?)

COSTUMES (1800′S) ARE MANDATORY

Living History participant:
Due to the overwhelming success we had with the former Old Trails Folklife Festival, and a lot of requests, we are, again, putting on a Living History Festival October 2, 3 and 4th, 2009. It will be hosted by the Ray County Historical Society, Richmond Missouri on the grounds and on the fairgrounds.
Please mark your calendars for this event!
The groups will celebrate the rich cultural and historical heritage of the county by providing an overview of early rural lifestyles through a broad spectrum of skills, customs and period costumes. Demonstrations will include a wide variety of the lost arts of the 1800s.
A cordial invitation is extended to you to participate in demonstrating your period skills and talents.
There is no charge to set up and those with wares or heritage crafts to sell may do so without commission or fees.* If you know of any other individuals or groups who would be interested in participating, please have them contact us. No gas-powered motors on the history grounds, please.
Space for self-contained camper parking is available at a minimal fee for electricity and water.

First come, first serve and will be given by post-mark or email date.

Fires for cooking, blacksmithing, etc are allowed. The event will be advertised extensively. If you are interested in joining us, please fill out the following form and return to
Living History in Ray County

c/o Ray County Historical Society

Karen Windsor-Bush
PO Box #2
Richmond, Missouri 64085

Email-raycountymuseum@yahoo.com

816-776-2305
This is your invitation and application for September 2010. Please return it to us as soon as possible.
* A free will donation would be more than appreciated to defray our costs.

Name ________________________________________________________Phone __________

Address __________________________________________________________

City: __________________________State ______________________Zip: _______________

Email: _______________________________________________________________________

Demonstration/Craft: __________________________________________________________

Items for sale: Yes _______No __________ Description of item: ____________________

Size of area ___________________________________Electricity: Yes ______ No ______

Other: _______________________________________________________________________
We are not responsible for theft, fire or flood, accidents.
This event may be cancelled at the discretion of the Ray County Historical Society due to weather conditions.

ICE CREAM SOCIAL!
COME OUT AND HAVE A GOOD ‘OLE TIME WITH US
PLENTY OF CAKE, ICE CREAM AND OTHER GOODIES
OLD FASHIONED GAMES IF YOU’D LIKE TO JOIN IN

METAL HOOP AND STICK

MUSICAL CHAIRS
HORSE SHOES
CROQUET
OLD TIME PHOTOS ON-SITE
RAFFLE FOR GOODIES
Of Course tour our wonderful museum, bring the kids!
COME ON OUT, FREE WILL DONATION
6:30 PM
JUNE 12, 2009 SATURDAY

RAY COUNTY MUSEUM

HISTORICAL SOCIETY

1-816-776-2305

EVENTS 2009

JUNE 27, 2009

ICE CREAM SOCIAL

(on the museum grounds)

ON THE SQUARE

SEPTEMBER 12, 2009

VETERANS PICNIC

(on the museum grounds)

OCTOBER 3, 4^TH

RE-ENACTMENT

(fair grounds/museum grounds)

A NEW feature in our grand museum!!

Old Time Photo in the parlor at the Ray County Museum in sepia tone or color.

Dress in our authentic looking costumes of the era or wear your own and step back in the past.

Bring your family and make a memory.

Two sizes of photos are available on high quality photo stock.

Wouldn’t this be a great Christmas card or to make memories with your class reunion?

We have children’s to larger sized costumes available with accessories for a small additional charge.

Please call for your reservation.

Ray County Museum

816-776-2305

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The Ray County museum will be open for entertaining in the parlor with Christmas refreshments and tours on Christmas Eve until 3:30 p.m. Be sure to bring your family and friends to see Your museum in all of her glory.

All of us have those before  and after -Christmas blues so come on up and  clear out the cob-webs of your hustle and bustle and enjoy a nice quiet stroll through the past and a parlor repast.

Christmas Eve, December 24th,  11:00- 3:30 p.m

December 26 & 27, 10:00- 4:00

Complimentary cider and other refreshments.

Free tours.

www.raycountyhistoricalsociety.com

816-776-2305

901 West Royle, Richmond

OIN us in our 36th Ray County Historical Society’s Annual Meeting. Sounds boring, it WON’T be!

Bring a dish (side or dessert) and join us for a friendly supper, followed by the election of our new board members and officers and a special program by Rod Fields on the Ray County Poor Farm.

As a member, you can participate in nominating for the board members and also elections.

If you’re not a member,…why not? We have different scaled levels of membership, so join us, now and be a part of the Ray County community and preserving our history!

Remember, all members have an automatic 10% discount on purchases from the museum, gift shop, costume rentals and publications.

Try a gift certificate this Christmas or any time for that special person!

See you there!

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MUSEUM OPEN WED-SATURDAY

10:00 TO 4:00

YEAR AROUND!

Proud Member of

Old Trails Regional Tourism Partnership

Richmond Chamber of Commerce
Kansas City Historical Society
Pony Express Museum
Civil War round Table of Western Missouri
Legends of America

American Association for State and Local History

Ray County Museum Facebook

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Triple A Travel Guide 2010

Days Open- Wednesday through Saturday- 10:00-:400 p.m.

901 West Royle Street, Richmond, Missouri 64085

Open Year Around

Mission Statement

Our mission is to collect, preserve and present the history and culture of the people of Ray County, Misouri and the families who pioneered the area to make it the County it is today.

Through our exhibits, research facilities and many other services and eents, the museum seeks to inspire visitors in matters of local history.

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The Ray County Historical Society was established in the 1950’s. It became a large group of the community who wanted to not only preserve our history of Ray County, Missouri, but to educate the next generations of our past.
In 1973, we found a home for our Ray County Museum. Built as a Poor farm in 1910, this stately Georgian, brick building was standing on its original 25 acres on a small bluff and looking out toward our town square. The County owned the building and willingly agreed to allow us to use this for our museum.

In 1974, we had our ground-breaking of our ‘ gem’  in the heart of Ray County. Governor Kit Bond and several other State Representatives helped us celebrate that day in October. When we first opened, there were four displayed rooms. All restored to their natural beauty, and furnished with special artifacts. Now, we have 37 rooms displayed and more coming!
From the early 1800’s to the 1940’s, we have special artifacts, the history of Ray County displayed in one building.
Three floors of displays, varied in themes, and guided tours, walking tours, visitors from around the globe!
We offer a ‘full service’ to our guests. From booked teas in the formal parlor, to costume rental, gift shop and historical publications for sale, and, of course events.
The museum is open year around. The tours are free, but a donation is always appreciated.

• Civil War room

• Period Doctor’s office
• One Room  School Room representing the 90+ schools in the area in this period
  

• Authentic parlor

• Old Farmers Shed complete with a “Go-Devil”
  

• Wildlife room

• Conservation Room

• Clothing displays of beautiful gowns and men’s clothing. We have one of the best displays of vintage costumes in the country. Displayed for easy viewing and study.
• Climate controlled Quilt room

• Lower floor is a beautiful open Reception area where you will be treated with period pieces along with fully accessible historical library. Books containing family histories, County history, etc.

Make your plans  to include coming to the beautiful grounds and  tour our ‘themed’ rooms to let your children and yourselves enjoy the peace and calm of yester-year.

Please feel free to contact me at:

FREE TOURS/ADMISSION- (DONATIONS ARE ALWAYS APPRECIATED)

FOR YOUR NEXT EVENT
CONTACT THE CURATOR
KAREN BUSH
TO BOOK THE FORMAL PARLOR. TEAS, MEETINGS, RECEPTIONS
RED HATTERS, SORORITY, ORGANIZATIONS
816-776-2305-MUSEUM

If you belong to a group, organization, schools, please contact me and we will be more than happy to accommodate!

DAYS/HOURS

WED-SATURDAY- 10:00-4:00

SPECIAL TOURS- PLEASE CALL OR EMAIL

raycountymuseum@yahoo.com

We have a full time curator and volunteers are there to help with tours.
Come and join us, see why we’re so proud of  the ‘old girl’!
Volunteers to help man the museum, or, just to help with an event are More than welcome.
Of course, we offer membership to our Historical Society with a newsletter (The Mirror) included.

Membership Level

Individual-$25 Family- $50 Lifetime lndividual-$200.00 Family- $50.00 Museum Sponsor- $100.00 Event Sponsor- $100.00 Corporate membership- $100.00 Option 8

You can send your subscription or donation  by check or money order to:

Ray County Historical Society

PO Box #2

raycountymuseum@yahoo.com

All back issues of our mirror are $5.00 per copy
We’re located on the West side of the town square.
901 West Royle Street (next to the Fairgrounds)

BOARD MEMBERS- 2009

Jim Carter- President-scrpnjc@hotmail.com

David Blythe-lawsonreview@juno.com

Karen Windsor Bush- Secretary, raycountymuseum@yahoo.com

Jan Jackson- Treasurer

Mac Proffitt

A.J. Phipps

Jean Hamacher

Hal Middleton

Don Forlow

Bruce White

Rod Fields

Terri McWilliams

Carter Rogers

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Excelsior Springs,Missouri

Suffering from an attack of heart failure, Frank James, noted as a guerilla
during the civil War and later as a member of the James gang, was found
unconscious in the yard at his home last evening. He resides on the James farm,
long the home of the family.

A physician who was called, revived Mr. James and gave it as his opinion that the patient would be alright in a few days if he avoids exertion.  Mr. James is still confined to
his bed, but was reported much improved today.

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Landis Artillery and 6th Missouri Calvary were there in action on the grounds of the Ray County Museum and the Ray County Fairgrounds.

The day, all in all, was a Great success and the visitors had a great time. They were making rope, forging iron, hearing the BOOMS of the cannons and the spectacular horses and riders.

It was a thrill and hope to have y’all back!!!!

(More to come with pictures, soon as I get a little shut-eye)

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The Confederate Chapter in Local history

By Clara Chenault

Richmond News, 1971

(I’ve added links below )

Old prejudice and hatreds die hard. The animosity engendered during the civil war was still strong in the South during the ‘90s.

A group of women I Nashville, Tennessee in the year 1894 had banded together “to honor the memory of those who served and those who fell in the service of the Confederate States; to collect and preserve the material for a truthful history of the war between the states; to record the part taken by Southern women in patient endurance of hardships and patriotic devotion during the struggle and during the Reconstruction of the South; to fulfill the duty of benevolence toward the survivors and to assist descendants of Confederates in securing proper education.”

The idea spared rapidly but reached Ray County in 1911. This was to be the 2,375^th chapter. The chapter almost overnight had 85 members. Their colors were read and white, the flower, carnation, and motto “Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget-“

The words ‘to fulfill the duty of benevolence toward the survivors’ in the creed were the key to their success. The federal government had immediately honored and made available funds for pensions to the Union soldiers but never made any contributions of any kind for the confederate soldiers even though the war was over and they were not United States citizens.

Needless to say, this added fuel to the fire of bitterness.

These daughters had a mission that grew into a crusade for a Cause. All the chapters in Missouri went together and bought 362 rolling acres just north of Higginsville for use by Confederate veterans.

A lovely southern style main building which housed the infirmary and business office appeared on the top of the hill’ smaller houses were built around it where husband and wife could live and have their gardens.

The Missouri state legislature did vote some funds…but nothing to brag about. The women shouldered the full responsibility and the Richmond women, because of their proximity, made regular pilgrimages to the home to cheer and comfort the inmates.

The late Wilson Hill said that I was truly a charity where all the money donated went directly to the place intended.

The chapter gave tribute to Colonel Benjamin A. Rives who was killed in the battle of Pea Ridge and Colonel Benjamin Brown who lost his life in the first battle in Ray County at Wilson’s Creek in 1861.

They bravely and proudly observed the birthdays of Lee, Jackson and Jeff Davis, and the battle dates of Wilson Creek and Westport. Their program subjects were on such things as the “Songs of Dixie”, “Forts in the South”, and Mrs. Nelson Hill talked on “Women in the South in War Time”.

Not all the time and attention of the organization was focused on Higginsville. They knew and visited with every survivor of the ugly war between states in the county. When possible, they remembered their birthdays. The Richmond Conservator reports such an instance in March 1923. “the Brown-Rives chapter prepared a cake with the age and other appropriate inscriptions for William E. Ringo for his birthday. Mr. Ringo has always taken an active interest in assisting members in the getting their papers and application blanks filled out. Of all the present members there are very few if any whom he has not given help in this respect. He entered the state militia in 1861 and served to the end of the war”.

His daughter, Mrs. Clarence Child, was a charter member of the United Daughters of the confederacy. Both she and her daughter, Mrs. Louis Child Jones are in the picture.

These women were superb cooks. When they had their teas the menu read like a page from Gourmet Magazine. Miss Louise Darneal told us that she was at a luncheon to honor a V.I.P. who was seated next to her “And could that woman ever talk”, Miss Louise said.

“I’ll never forget that day. Every time I would start to take a bit, she would start talking and courtesy demanded that I give her my full attention. I could have wept when the hostess took away my nearly full plate”.

Mrs. Wesley Allison often said she seceded from the Union “clear to the backbone” and she requested that they play Dixie at her funeral. That they did!

Time passed as it is wont to do. The Civil War receded further and further in memory.

The obituaries for the veterans came closer and closer together. By 1955 only ghosts inhabited the corridors and strolled over the beautiful grounds. As the primary reason for the organization waned so did the Brown-Rives chapter of Ray County. By 1950 there were only five or six faithfuls who met on the designated days and by 1957 the society drifted into oblivion.

In 1956 the state took over 207 of the acres and started a state school for exceptional children.

The United Daughters of the Confederacy of Ray County had lived and died for Dixie.

Higginsville, Missouri Confederate Home

Confederate Home Missouri Cemetery

Missouri- Little Dixie

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This category is just a start of the story of the Border Wars of the mid-1850’s. Your comments and input are appreciated and welcomed!

Border wars- Pre Civil War *

Invading Missouri in 1856?- In August, 1856, a little over 84 years ago, handbills were printed in Lexington, Mo., our neighbor town across the bridge, warning of a probable “invasion of Missouri,” telling of the “War in Kansas,” and calling upon citizens to prepare themselves against the “Free Soilers,” and “Abolitionists”.

The bill called upon the people to meet in Lexington on August 10, 1856, to prepare to “fight the invaders, announcing that Captain Hi Bledsoe’s battery division would meet at the time and place.

The handbill was signed by D.R. Atchison, W.H. Russell, Joseph C. Anderson and A.G. Boone.

Among the names appearing on the handbill, as members of Bledsoe’s division, reminders of the Mexican War of a few years before, were S.B. Sawyer, Street Hale, T.Ewing, W.A.Trigg, Hi Bledsoe,jr., Edward Winsor, W.P. Walton, Martin Slaughter, William Limerick, Nathan Corder and Oliver Anderson.

A copy of this handbill of 1856 is now in the possession of J.W. Douglass of Huntsville, Mo., who, with Mrs. Douglas, recently visited friends and relatives in Lexington and Higginsville.

Mr. Douglass was reared, south of Higginsville, but has not lived in Lafayette County for forty years. His grandfather, whose name was Mock, had saved the handbill and handed it down to him.

* Chapter 497, by Jewell Mayes, edition of the Richmond Missourian of September 16, 1940. September 16, 1940.

US History Encyclopedia Border War (1854–1859). The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which allowed local voters to decide whether Kansas would be a slave state or a free state, prompted emigration from the Northeast of antislavery groups, the arrival of squatters and speculators, and the presence of an adventurous element recruited from both North and South. Ideological differences over slavery and recurring personal altercations led proslavery and free-state groups to organize regulating associations and guerrilla bands. Lynching, horse stealing, pillaging, and pitched battles marked the years from 1854 to 1859 and inspired the name “Bleeding Kansas” for the territory.

The first eighteen months of settlement witnessed sporadic shootings, killings, and robberies, including the Wakarusa War (December 1855), which brought over one thousand Border Ruffians into the territory. The sack of Lawrence (21 May 1856) by a posse of border ruffians and John Brown’s massacre of five proslavery men at Pottawatomie three days later started a four-month reign of terror. Free-state men won victories at Black Jack, Franklin, Fort Saunders, Fort Titus, Slough Creek, and Hickory Point; their opponents pillaged and later burned Osawatomie (30 August 1856), but official intervention prevented them from further destroying Lawrence. A semblance of order restored by Governor John W. Geary in the fall was of brief duration. The Marais des Cygnes massacre of nine free-state men on 19 May 1858 was the last wholesale slaughter. Major conflict terminated in 1859, albeit sporadic disorders continued until the Civil War. Anticipating a congressional appropriation that did not materialize, territorial commissioners approved claims for losses resulting from border trouble totaling over $400,000, which, though exaggerated, give some notion of the extent of property damage.
Bibliography Johannsen, Robert W. The Frontier, the Union, and Stephen A. Douglas. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. Morrison, Michael A. Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Rawley, James A. Race & Politics: “Bleeding Kansas” and the Coming of the Civil War. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1969.

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THE RICHMOND NEWS, RICHMOND, MISSOURI
FEBRUARY 11, 1957

MISSOURI HISTORY:
Unction General Married Missouri Girl,
Later Achieved Even Greater Things

His capture of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson gave the North its first important victories; his capture of Vicksburg severed the Confederacy; his strategies commander-in-chief of all the Union armies in the closing campaigns of the war forced Lee’s surrender at Appomattox court House.  Do you know his name?
1.    What was his connection with Missouri?
He was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio, in 1822.  After graduation from West Point in 1843, he was assigned to Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis.  While stationed there, he met Julia Dent, the sister of Fred T. Dent, his former classmate, and in 1844, they became engaged.  In 1848, after his participation in the Mexican War, they were married in St. Louis.  Their life together was interrupted when his regiment was ordered to the Pacific coast in 1842.  Stationed at lonely outposts, homesick, and hating army life, his drinking habits brought about his resignation from the army in 1854.  He returned to a farm in St. Louis County.  Unsuccessful at farming, in 1858 he tried the real estate business in St. Louis and in 1860 he worked as a clerk in his father’s store in Galena, Ill.
2.    How did he win fame in the Civil War ?
Appointed colonel of the 21st Illinois volunteers in 1861, he saw his first service in northeast Missouri.  After brief commands at Mexico, Ironton, Jefferson City and Cape Girardeau, he established headquarters at Cairo, Ill and in November 1861, defeated the Confederates at Belmont, Mo.  His capture of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson electrified the nation and newspapers were filled with his praise.  But his great loss of men and seeming lack of leadership in the battle of Shiloh in 1862 made him unpopular.  His brilliant capture of Vicksburg again made him the hero of the North.  After a series of swift and dramatic battles in Tennessee in 1863, he was placed in command of all the Union armies.  He pursued a policy of attrition in the bloody battles, which drove Lee’s army back upon Petersburg and Richmond.  But following the surrender of lee he said, “I felt like anything but rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly,” and his terms of surrender were generous.
3.    When was he elected President of the United States?
He was nominated and elected President in 1868 and re-elected in 1872.  Widespread political corruption prevailed during his presidency.  Although he was lacking in political experience and unwise in his choice of associates, proof of his personal honesty was completely convincing in connection with the financial scandals of the time.  In the face of financial panic in 1873, he vetoed a currency inflation bill and urged the passage of the act for resumption of sound money payments.  Another highlight of his administration was the completion of the first trans-continental railroad.
4.       For what is he remembered in his later years?
Stricken by a fatal illness and bankrupt from unwise investments, he courageously undertook to write his “Memoirs,” hoping the work would provide support for his wife.  He clung desperately to life until the last chapter was written.  A week later, he died at Mr. McGregor, New York, July 23, 1885.
5.       Are there monuments to his memory in Missouri?
A.  Surviving members of the 21ar Illinois Volunteers erected a statue to his memory at Ironton in 1886.  His statue stands on Twelfth Street, St. Louis, and the Grant log cabin, near St. Louis, is a well-preserved landmark.
6.      What was his name?
a.    Ulysses Simpson Grant

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Eye-Witness Describes the Battle of Albany and the Killing of Captain Bill Anderson

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The Diary of Lieutenant Thomas Hankins, late Banker of Rayville, Mo., Recast Correctly Into Conversational Style, Furnishes the Concisest Report of the Battle of “Old Albany,” one Mile North of Orrick in Southwest Ray County- A Series of Chapters Giving Exact Date of Important Local Civil War Fight- Chapter Five Ends Series With Additional Anderson Data from Other Sources.

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(No. 430 of “Ray County Chapters” in the Richmond Missourian of June 20, 1938, by Jewell Mayes; the 3rd of the series)

Without prefacing, the third chapter of the eye-witness description of the 1864 battle of Old Albany, as told by Lieutenant Thomas Hankins, appearing for the first time in the Missourian in form somewhat different from this series, appears as follows:

BY THOMAS HANKINS

On Wednesday, October 26, 1864, our Federal scouts reported that a large band of “rebels” were camped in the timber west of Old Albany, in the southwestern part of Ray County.

On further inquiry, it was learned that the band consisted of about one thousand men, about one-half of them recruits and either unarmed or only partly only armed, under the command of Captains George W. Hendley and Bill Anderson.

The Federal forces at Richmond consisted of about 500 efficient men, under the command of Major John Grimes of the 51st E.M.M. of Ray County.

On the evening before, these were joined by four or five companies of the 33rd E.M.M. Daviess county militia, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel C.S. Cox, augmenting the troops at Richmond about one Read the rest of this entry »

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