Missouri’s Civil War 1861-1864 presented by Dick Titterington
THIS CLASS STARTED ON SEPTEMBER 17. Email spark@umkc.edu or Call (816) 235-2870 for information.
Wednesday Afternoons – 1:30 to 3:30 pm
4747 Troost (direct entrance off of Forest Ave.) Room 23B
It begins on Wednesday, September 17and ends on October 22
This class is in a HYBRID format – participate in-person or on Zoom.
Learn about many little-known events during the Civil War that occurred in Missouri and Kansas.
Did you know Ulysses S. Grant had his first combat experience in Missouri?
Did you know there were battles fought in the town squares of Independence and Lone Jack?
Did you know a man from St. Louis built the war ships that helped win control of the Mississippi River?
Did you know the Confederacy launched several cavalry raids into Missouri during the war?
Did you know the Union authorities ordered thousands of civilian Missourians from their homes in response to Quantrill’s burning of Lawrence?
Did you know a Kansas battalion of African Americans was the first to fight in combat during the war?
Did you know enslaved African Americans in Missouri were set free ten months before the rest of the country?
Well, that’s what this class is all about.
List of topics
- · Jennison’s Jayhawkers/Kansas Red Legs
- · Grant in Missouri: Belmont
- · First Battle of Independence
- · Battle of Lone Jack
- · Eads Ironclads
- · Marmaduke’s Raids into Missouri
- · Quantrill’s 1863 Lawrence Raid
- · Order Number 11
- · Shelby’s Great Raid into Missouri
- · Blacks in Blue: First Kansas Colored Infantry Regiment
- · Paw Paw Rebellion
- · Enslaved Missourians Struggle for Freedom
Dick Titterington is a historian and the author of ten Civil War books; He serves on Civil War Round Table of Kansas and with Monnett Battle of Westport Fund.
