On South Prairie Street (County Highway AA), on the right when traveling north.
(Front): Stoddard Countians Aboard the C.S. Arkansas
In 1861 President Abraham Lincoln requested General Winfield Scott to submit a plan to suppress the outbreak of the Civil War and reunite the Union. Scott devised "the Anaconda Plan" . . . — — Map (db m207528) HM
On Main Street south of Virginia Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
When established in 1789, New Madrid was one of a handful of settlements in the Spanish territory west of the Mississippi River. First as a district and later as a county, the New Madrid jurisdiction extended as far south to the northern border of . . . — — Map (db m179976) HM
On West Missouri Street (County Highway J) at South School Street, on the right when traveling east on West Missouri Street.
In 1853 a group of Bloomfield citizens organized the Bloomfield Educational Society for the purpose of establishing a "First Class Literary Institution in Bloomfield." In 1854 the directors purchased land for a building site and in 1855 the Missouri . . . — — Map (db m208055) HM
On South Prairie Street (County Highway AA) at Court Street, on the right when traveling north on South Prairie Street.
On Saturday, November 2, 1861. Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant directed Colonel Richard J. Oglesby of the 8th Illinois Infantry Regiment to move from Bird's Point, Missouri. to destroy Brigadier General Jeff Thompson's Confederate forces in . . . — — Map (db m207533) HM
On North Spanish Street at Themis Street, on the left when traveling north on North Spanish Street.
Southeast Missouri was where Ulysses S. Grant, the nation's eighteenth president, began his rise to prominence as a soldier. This story began in mid-August, 1861, at Ironton, Missouri, 70 miles west of Cape Girardeau via Missouri Highway 72. Grant . . . — — Map (db m261479) HM
Near South Main Street (Business U.S. 67) 0.1 miles south of John Holt Drive, on the left when traveling south.
On Oct. 21, 1861, the Battle of Fredericktown was fought just south of this location. Gen. M. Jeff Thompson set the stage for the Battle of Fredericktown in mid-October 1861 when he led the 1st Division, Missouri State Guard, to disrupt the Iron . . . — — Map (db m208338) HM
Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
