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Title: Home of John Wornall
Description: The home of John Wornall served as a field hospital for soldiers wounded in the Battle of Westport. It has since been restored and converted into a museum, at 6115 Wornall Road in Kansas City, Missouri
Object Type: Image
Date: October 2008

Title: Neosho, Missouri Masonic Hall
Description: Rendering of the Masonic Hall at Neosho, MO, site of Secession Convention, October 21-28, 1861.
Object Type: Image

Title: Independence, Missouri
Description: Bird's eye view of the city of Independence, Jackson Co., Missouri 1868.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1868

Title: Pass for John F. Richards
Description: A Provost Marshall wartime pass for travel west of St. Louis to Kansas. It is for John Francisco Richards who was the founder and owner of the Richards and Conover Hardware Company. His hardware store started out in Leavenworth, KS in 1857 and then later he moved it to the building that is still standing at 5th and Wyandotte. The pass describes Richards as having brown hair, gray eyes, five feet and eight inches tall, and 27 years of age.
Object Type: Image
Date: October 31, 1861

Title: Battle of Dug Springs
Description: This sketch, originally published in Harper's Weekly on August 24, 1861, depicts the Battle of Dug Springs (August 2, 1861), near present day Clever, Missouri. Union forces under the command of Nathaniel Lyon were victorious in this first skirmish of the Missouri Campaign of 1861.
Object Type: Image
Date: August 24, 1861

Title: Clay County Court House at Liberty, Mo
Description: A drawing of the Clay County Court House in Liberty, Missouri, included in an 1877 plat book of Clay County, Missouri.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1877

Title: Lexington, Missouri
Description: Bird's eye view of the city of Lexington, Lafayette Co., Missouri in 1869.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1869

Title: Kansas City, Missouri
Description: This bird's eye view of Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri was created by A. Ruger in 1869. A drawing of Kansas City in 1855 is shown in the bottom left corner of the image.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1869

Title: Platte County Court House, Platte City, Missouri
Description: A drawing of the Platte County Court House in Platte City, Missouri, included in an 1877 plat book of Platte County, Missouri.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1877

Title: David Rice Atchison
Description: Photograph of a David Rice Atchison painting by George Caleb Bingham, located in Atchison's home in Clinton County, MO.
Object Type: Image
Date: n.d.

Title: Battle of Wilson's Creek
Description: This sketch, originally published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper on August 24, 1861, depicts the Battle of Wilson's Creek. The caption states: "Great Battle of Wilson's Creek, near Springfield, Missouri. Between 5,500 Union troops under Generals Lyon and Siegel, and 23,000 rebels under Generals McCullough and Price, August 10th, 1861 -From a sketch by our special artist.-"
Object Type: Image
Date: August 24, 1861

Title: Main Street, Glasgow, Howard County, Missouri
Description: Photocopy of a postcard from 1864 showing a view of Main Street, Glasgow, Howard County, Missouri.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1864

Title: The Arrest of Governor Robinson by Marshall Donaldson
Description: Illustration of the arrest of Governor Charles Robinson by Marshall Donaldson in Lexington, Missouri on May 10, 1856. Charles Robinson, then considered the Kansas Territorial Governor by the Free-Staters' illegitimate Topeka legislature, was arrested for treason in Lexington, Missouri due to his faux "governorship" and his denouncements of the proslavery "Bogus Legislature." He was imprisoned at Lecompton, Kansas before being released on September 10, 1856. He was finally acquitted of the charges of treason on August 20, 1857. This image was originally published in the 1856 publication of "True History of the Kansas Wars" by O. N. Merrill.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1856

Title: Battle of Carthage, Missouri
Description: This drawing, based on a sketch made during the battle on July 5, 1861, shows Union troops under Franz Sigel's command firing upon the Confederate position in Carthage, Missouri.
Object Type: Image
Date: August 3, 1861

Title: First Battle of Lexington
Description: The charge of the Irish Regiment (Colonel Mulligan) over the breastworks at Lexington, Missouri.
Object Type: Image
Date: October 12, 1861

Title: Little Blue River, Jackson County, MO
Description: This photograph of the Little Blue River was taken in the northwest section of Longview Farm, Longview Road, Lees Summit, Jackson County, MO
Object Type: Image
Date: n.d.

Title: St. Joseph, Missouri
Description: This bird's eye view of Saint Joseph, Missouri was created by A. Ruger and published by the Merchants Lithographing Co. in 1868.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1868

Title: Saline County Court House at Marshall, Missouri
Description: A drawing of the Saline County Court House in Marshall, Missouri, included in an 1876 plat book of Saline County, Missouri.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1876

Title: Union Prison Collapse Marker
Description: Photograph of the historical marker noting the site of the Union Prison collapse in Kansas City, Missouri. The Union Prison, located at 1425 Grand Avenue, held female relatives and associates of proslavery Missouri bushwhackers. Five women, including the sister of guerilla William T. "Bloody Bill" Anderson, died as a result of the collapse on August 14, 1863.
Object Type: Image
Date: June 24, 2015

Title: Jefferson City, Missouri
Description: This sketch by St. Louis resident Orlando C. Richardson, originally published in Harper’s Weekly on July 6, 1861, depicts Jefferson City, Missouri on the banks of the Missouri River.
Object Type: Image
Date: July 6, 1861

Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1854-1865