The Battle at Belmont, Missouri

7 November 1861

Read Me First

The following maps and text illustrate the battle at Belmont, Missouri. The battle is broken into sections that explain the components of the overall battle. To understand the progression of the battle, match the number above ...

Missouri Pacific Railroad Depot

Built 1917 - Restored 1999 - 2005

This property

has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Preservation of this property

has been assisted by the

Kansas Heritage Trust Fund

Kansas State Historical Society

In appreciation to the city council

of Osborne ...

Missouri - Kansas - Texas Railroad

As the first railroad to enter Texas from the North in 1872, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Co. was an influential factor in the development of the Great Southwest. Soon after its construction began, the railroad became commonly known as the "K-T" ...

Steamboating on the Missouri

First Steamboats

Early steamboat trips on the Missouri River tested boats, crews and passengers. Between 1820 and 1900, several hundred steamboats on the Missouri were destroyed by fire or boiler explosions, crushed by ice, or sunk by snags. The first steamboat ...

Lewis and Clark Expedition Across Missouri

“we Set out early… Passed the mouth of … Blue water river…[and later]… a bad Sand bar, where our two rope twice…. Came to and Camped in the Point above the Kansas River. I observed a great number of Parrot ...

Bledsoe's (Missouri) Battery

Maj. Robert Martin's Battalion.

Bledsoe's (Missouri) Battery.

4-3 inch Rifles.

Maj. Robert Martin's Battalion.

Capt. Hiram M. Bledsoe, Commanding.

1st Lieut. R. L. Wood.

1st Lieut. C. W. Higgins.

2d Lieut. E. W. Anderson.

2d Lieut. L. L. Maughas.

2d Lieut. J. S. Wheatley.

Nov. 25, 1863.

The battery came into ...

Missouri

Missouri

To Her 3rd, 12th, 17th, 27th, 29th, 31st and 32nd Infty.

And Battery F. 2nd Mo. U.S.A.

Who Occupied a Position Near This Point Nov. 25, 1863.

Marker is at the intersection of South Crest Road and West Crest ...

The Great Missouri River

The Missouri, the continent's longest river, figures prominently in the unfolding of America's saga. Flowing nearby in its 2,341-mile course from the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi, the Big Muddy is not only loaded with sediment but steeped in stories ...

The Lewis and Clark Expedition Across Missouri

"Groops of Shrubs covered with the most delicious froot is to be seen in every direction, and nature appears to have exerted herself to butify the Senery by the variety of flours [flowers] Delicately and highly flavered raised above the ...

The Lewis and Clark Expedition Across Missouri

On Nov. 23, 1803, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark arrived at Cape Girardeau, a trading post established in 1795 by Louis Lorimier, the Spanish-appointed Commandant of the Cape Girardeau District. Here, Lewis, co-commander of the expedition, left the keelboat to ...