In June of 1863, Brigadier General John W. Davidson received orders to take command of the newly formed First Cavalry Division, Department of Missouri, (U.S.). The division consisted of 6,000 cavalrymen, thousands of horses, 16 pieces of field . . . — — Map (db m207651) HM
On August 10, 1821, the Territory of Missouri became the 24th state of the United States. In 1829, the Missouri legislature set boundaries for a new county to be named after Major Amos Stoddard, a distinguished officer of the United States Army. . . . — — Map (db m207575) HM
On Thursday morning, October 22, 1863, citizens of Bloomfield were puzzled by early morning activity around Union military headquarters. The battalion's four armed cavalry companies, with two artillery pieces, were drawn up in front of the . . . — — Map (db m207728) HM
(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
The largest of Missouri's six southeast lowland counties, Stoddard encompasses 837 sq. miles. Organized 1835, it is named for Maj. Amos Stoddard, first American civil governor of Upper Louisiana. In the 1808 Osage Indian land cession, the county was . . . — — Map (db m207603) HM
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
The strategic location of Bloomfield on the high ground of Crowley's Ridge made it an important crossroads during the Civil War. Both Union and Confederate forces contested for control of the region. The small community changed hands more than . . . — — Map (db m208228) HM
During the Civil War, Bloomfield was a geographically commanding point in southeastern Missouri due to its location atop Crowley's Ridge, the only high ground separating two nearly impenetrable swamps. Whoever held Bloomfield controlled movements on . . . — — Map (db m207550) HM
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 of Federal Major . . . — — Map (db m131219) HM
(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
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
Bloomfield's first organized school was established in 1842 with classes held in a small log structure, which had served as a Methodist Episcopal church since 1837. In 1853 a group of citizens organized the Bloomfield Education Society and purchased . . . — — Map (db m208221) HM
