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Portrait (retouched) of Thaddeus Stevens (1792-1868) by Mathew Brady, circa 1860s. From the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection.

Major General Sterling Price, watercolour painting by an unknown artist, circa 1860 to circa 1869. At the beginning of the American Civil War, Sterling Price was given command of the Missouri State Guard...

Benjamin McCulloch, photograph by an unknown photographer, 1811-1862. McCulloch became a Brigadier General of the Confederate States when Texas seceded from the United States of America in 1861, and during...

The charge of the First Iowa Regiment, with General Lyon at its head, at the Battle of Wilson's Creek, near Springfield, Missouri, August 10, 1861, woodcut by an unknown artist, near Springfield, Missouri, 30 August 1861...

Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon, U.S. Army, engraving by Adam B. Walter, Philadelphia, circa 1860s to 1870s. General Lyon was the commander of the federal forces at the Battle of Wilson's Creek, where he was killed...

House of the Ray family at Wilson's Creek National Battlefield, photograph by J. Pinta, SW Missouri, 10 March 2014. The Ray House is one of the few remaining structures from the Battle of Wilson's...

Nicholas Bartlett Pearce, photograph by an unknown photographer, c. 1828 to c. 1894. Nicholas Bartlett Pearce, better known as N. Bart Pearce, was the commander of the Army of Arkansas, contributing to the Confederate...

Claiborne Fox Jackson, photograph of a painting by an unknown photographer, c. 1900. Claiborne Fox Jackson was the governor of Missouri during the American Civil War, and although Missouri was a neutral...

The Peace of Nisibis (299 CE) ended the Roman–Sasanian War of 296–299 CE after Galerius, Caesar under the Roman emperor Diocletian (reign 284–305 CE), defeated...

By c. 1750, the slave trades affecting Africa were entering a period of major transformation. Long-established trans-Saharan, Red Sea, and Indian Ocean networks...