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The
Civil War, Slavery, and Reconstruction in Missouri Bibliography -
by Gary Shearer, Reference Librarian, Pacific Union College Library
Time
Portal to Old St. Louis - by Scott Williams, thorough and
interesting coverage of St. Louis throughout its history, including an
extensive
Civil War section. Numerous pictures and links.
Slavery
in St. Louis - an excellent depiction and discussion.
 Missouri
Civil War Museum Site for the newly founded museum to be in St.
Louis. Promises to cover both sides of the conflict. Has battle timelines up
for 1861 & 1862.
Missouri
Division Sons of Confederate Veterans
Sterling
Price Camp - St. Louis Sons of Confederate Veterans site.
Civil
War Traveler: A March Through the Rebellion Battles and
Battlefields. Includes a good Missouri section with many pictures of
monuments in St. Louis. (autostart audio on some monument pages-not on
main page)
Missouri
Partisan Ranger - A very thorough and well-done site about the
Missouri Partisan Rangers (bushwhackers, guerrillas... but they object to
those words, see the site for their definitions). Lists of participants
with biographical information.
William
Clarke Quantrill Society - formed in the 1980s with many
members descended from Quantrill members. Takes queries.
Civil
War Music of the Western Border - by Cathy Barton and Dave
Para. Not strictly music of the Western Border. This is a strange and
fascinating site that starts with a picture of a wax recreation of the
head of Quantrill. The main focus of the site is music, with lyrics you
can read, or songs you can download and listen to. Check especially for
songs by St. Louis resident Joseph Leddy (mentioned on this site's Gratiot
Street Prison page).
Ladies
Union Aid Society - a site about the Union women of St. Louis
who worked (primarily) in the hospitals.
Missouri
Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States
- Descendents of Union Officers who served in the Civil War in
Missouri. A huge amount of links to other sites.
Cyndi's List
- Civil War links
The
Civil War in Southeast Missouri - battles and maps Civil
War websites index - link index from Louisiana State University
Alton
Prison - Many Missouri prisoners were sent to Alton. This site
includes a searchable listing of prisoners
Political Graveyard - Includes information about and photos of
burial sites in St. Louis of numerous significant Civil War participants.
Find-a-Grave - Gravesite information and photos from St. Louis.
Includes numerous Civil War participants. Listings can be narrowed down by
individual cemetery.
North Alton Confederate Cemetery On-Line - Confederate soldiers
buried in Madison County, Illinois
Battle Summaries - just what the name says. Covers all states.
Riverboats,
Steamboats, Sternwheelers and Sidewheelers - the river and
steamboats were vital to the war in the west. This site is a database of
steamers, pilots and owners.
Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery - record of burials at this
St. Louis cemetery, many dead from Gratiot were buried here. |
Missouri
Historical Society - in St. Louis, Missouri
State
Historical Society of Missouri - in Columbia, Missouri
Missouri
State Archives - in Jefferson City, Missouri
St.
Louis Public Library - A huge amount of information is indexed
on-line with instructions on how to obtain copies. They add more regularly
so keep checking back.
Catholic
Cemeteries of St. Louis - by the Archdiocese of St. Louis. This
excellent new site (still partially under construction) has a search
function to search Catholic burials in St. Louis with names, death dates,
ages, and cross-references to others buried nearby--an extremely valuable
genealogical and historical tool. Also included are extensive visual tours
of historically important and interesting sites in the cemeteries.
Library
of Congress - American Memories site from the Library of
Congress contains pictures, maps, and documents from America's past
including quite a bit relating to Missouri. Particular collections to look
at include Maps,
Lincoln Papers
(one of the treasures of this site is the letters from Missouri people,
and the newspaper clippings related to Missouri Lincoln kept), Sheet
Music, First-Person
Narratives of the American South (only a few relate to Missouri but
many are worth reading). There's much more.
National Archives and
Records Administration - Remember the scene at the end of
"Raiders of the Lost Ark" when the ark is pushed into the vast
government warehouse never to be found again? The National Archives has
created a web site much like that warehouse. Yet, if you hunt through it
(and employ an external search engine like
Google) you can find enormous amounts of information. Of key interest
are the indexes to the Civil War microfilm archives, including
service
records for USA and CSA soldiers.
Making of
America from the University of Michigan
&
Making
of America from Cornell University - These are two sites with
the same name but somewhat different content. Both include the Official
Records of the War of the Rebellion and the Navy Official Records. They
also include a searchable collection of 1800s magazines, many with Civil
War content, including articles by many of the participants. Look
especially for Century Magazine.
Inflation
Calculator - Converts US dollars at any date from 1800 to 2000
into present day values.
Civil War Soldiers and
Sailors System - a growing database of all Civil War soldiers
from the National Park Service based on National Archives records. Includes
prisoner listings from Andersonville and Fort McHenry.
Jews in the Civil War
- an excellent site covering both Union and Confederate Jews who
participated in the War. Many participants from the Trans-Mississippi area.
Tennessee
and the Civil War - includes a great deal of information,
searchable indexes, and links to information on Tennessee soldiers and
POWs.
Old
West Kansas - Bleeding Kansas, focus of the Border War with
Missouri. Links to numerous related history sites.
Books of the Kansas
Collection - full on-line texts of numerous valuable resources.
Books on early settlement, on the Lawrence raid, etc.
American Civil War
Homepage - surprisingly few Missouri links, but a lot from other
areas and on general subjects |
 Ancestry.com -
This is a paid subscription service. For me it's been well worth the
price. They have an enormous amount of information available, easily
searchable. You'll find indexes to Civil War military service records,
birth and death records, census indexes... Missouri records are among the
most complete and thorough with Civil War era St. Louis records of
marriages and deaths/burials very well covered. This is always my first
research and genealogy stop for anyone I'm looking for.
Ancestry.com adds new databases every day.
They now have the entire US census available on-line for a very
reasonable subscription rate.
Family
Search - A site by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints (the Mormons). This searchable on-line database covers Missouri
quite thoroughly (which is understandable if you're familiar with Mormon
history). Included are birth, death, and marriage records. Also check the
catalog of materials available at the Family History Library. If you have
a LDS Family History Center near you (which they generously allow
non-church members to use) you can order the microfilm/fiche materials to
view at a small fee.
Genealogy
in St. Louis - This site by Dave Lossos contains maps, indexes,
lists of surnames, and links to research sources Included are census ward
maps which are very helpful in using Ancestry.com's census images, and a
very promising upcoming project on the 1930 census. A valuable resource is
the search engine that searches the St. Louis Public Library on-line
listings and information.
Missouri
Birth & Death Records Database Still in its early stages but
with many records for Missouri already online.
Grand
Army of the Republic. Department of Illinois. Transcription of the Death
Rolls, 1879-1947 - a new publication
now available with 32,000 names of soldiers who served from 36 states, 537
pages link added June 16, 2003
Missouri
Census Page - by Ed Mackley. Complete 1830, 1840 and 1850 Missouri
censuses on-line. More to follow. Considering the amount of work and
bandwidth Mackley is providing to the public for free, this site is an
extremely commendable contribution.
GenForums
- Genealogy.com's forums to post queries.
Surname
Distribution - A fascinating site that shows the distribution
density of surnames across America over time.
US
GenWeb Census Project - Free on-line full census records for
some US counties.
Missouri
Genealogical Resources - A page of links from RootsWeb.
Missouri
GenWeb plus Missouri
in the Civil War GenWeb site
Land
Patents Search - from the Bureau of Land Management. This is a
searchable database of people who acquired land patents directly from the
Federal Government, by purchase or homestead. It includes images of the
original land patents.
St. Louis
Genealogical Society - includes a database of 30,000 St. Louisans.
Census Links -
links to on-line censuses for Missouri plus pages with other
genealogical information.
Slave Data Collection -
not much from Missouri yet, but a nice collection that provides information
on both slaves and their owners.
Access Genealogy
site for Missouri - links to numerous sources of genealogical
data for Missouri
St. Louis- Pages in
Time - listings from city directories over the years, cemetery
tombstone transcriptions.
Missouri Slave
Data - census slave schedules from numerous years and counties |
