St. Louis Arsenal: Armory of the West

by Randy R. McGuire, Ph. D.

Covers the history of the extremely important arsenal at St. Louis. Pictures and maps on all pages.



Civil War St. Louis

by Louis S. Gerteis



 



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Lion of the Valley, St. Louis, Missouri, 1764-1980 by James Neal Primm



An interesting and well-written general history of St. Louis.



The Civil War in St. Louis: A Guided Tour by William C. Winter



An excellent source of information about Civil War St. Louis. The book is worthwhile as an on-site tour guide with maps and directions to sites and descriptions of what is there now and what was there during the 1860s. If not planning a trip to St. Louis, it's still very good reading, putting into geographical perspective much of the history of the city. Lots of good pictures and narrative.



 







Missouri Civil War Reader, Volume I



Story of a Border City During the Civil War, by Galusha Anderson



Anderson was a pastor in St. Louis just before and during the war. His church was only half a block away from Lynch's Slave Market. He offered his services as a minister to the Confederate prisoners at Gratiot, but--not surprisingly--none of their accounts mention him. Good, first-hand history by a bit of a fussbudget, but a very entertaining writer. A decidedly Union point-of-view.



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The Civil War in Missouri, Day by Day, 1861 to 1865 by Carolyn M. Bartels, Rocky Medley
 



Civil War Stories of Missouri by Carolyn M. Bartels



MISSOURI IN 1861: THE CIVIL WAR LETTERS OF FRANC B. WILKIE, NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT. Edited by Michael Banasik. Volume IV in the series “Unwritten Chapters of the Civil War West of the River” consists of 54 letters written in 1861 by newspaper correspondent Franc B. Wilkie.