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Company M's Ames 3-pdr. and Filley gun at sunrise at Fort Davidson State Historic Site in Pilot Knob, Missouri, October 2006.
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COMPANY M, 1st MISSOURI LIGHT ARTILLERY COMPANY K, 1st MISSOURI LIGHT ARTILLERY COMPANY G, 17th MISSOURI INFANTRY |
A love of history is obviously a key element to the reenactor. The following represents just a small part of the fruits of Brigade members' research into the background of the original units we represent, and into the events that shaped St. Louis and Missouri in the period around the Civil War. Excerpts from the Annual Report of the Adjutant General of Missouri for the Year ending December 31, 1865.
Research The Woodruff Gun by Dr. John Margreiter, reprinted from Civil War Times Illustrated (with permission). Includes annotations and recent research.
Biographical Sketches Giles F. Filley, St. Louis industrialist David Murphy, Missouri Artillery Officer Joseph L. Follet, Missourian awarded the Medal of Honor Joseph Garneau, Forgotten Cracker King James A. Mulligan and the Western Irish Brigade
News of 150 Years Ago: Articles from the Missouri Democrat March/April 1859 -- O. D. Filley is reelected Mayor of St. Louis; Daniel E. Sickles murders Philip Barton Key in Washington, D.C. May/June 1859 -- Carstang vs. Shaw Breach of Promise Suit, Southern Commercial Convention in Vicksburg, Horse-drawn streetcars in St. Louis, Buried Alive, Sharps Breech-loading Rifles, A Model Newspaper July/August 1859 -- The Grand Experimental Air Voyage to the Atlantic Coast. September 1859 -- Sam Hawken in the Pike's Peak Gold Fields, Fourth Annual Fair of the St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Association. October 1859 -- Insurrection at Harper's Ferry. November/December 1859 -- Execution of John Brown, State wrests control of St. Louis Police Board, Thanksgiving, the Sons of Malta, John Wise on Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, "How to Get Married".
Pages from the Past: Articles from the Missouri Democrat A History of Rifled Cannon, July 18, 1861 The National Thanksgiving, November 24, 1864 Washington's Birthday Celebration, February 23, 1862 Flag Ceremony at Allenton, August 9, 1861
Pages from the Past: Articles from the Missouri Republican |
