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Shortly after three o'clock on Saturday afternoon, October 29, 1864, six Confederate prisoners of war were taken from their cell in the Gratiot Street Prison in St Louis and executed by a military firing squad. This was by order . . . — — Map (db m131219) HM
On State Highway 25 at East Shawnee Street (State Highway E), on the right when traveling north on State Highway 25.
(Front): An article in the Missouri Democrat, a Cape Girardeau newspaper, dated July 3, 1862, described the war-weary community of Bloomfield. It also told of a certain tree used for sad occasions. Two or three of us went down and . . . — — Map (db m60710) HM
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