Missouri

Headnote

Boundaries and Extent. — Missouri is bounded north by the State of Iowa; east by the Mississippi River, which separates it from the States of Illinois, Kentucky, and part of Tennessee; south by the State of Arkansas; and west by the Indian Territory, and by the River Missouri, dividing it from the Deserts of Nebraska. It extends from 36° to 40° 36' north latitude, and lies between 89° and 95° 45' west longitude. Its area is estimated at 67,380 square miles, being about 278 miles in length by 235 in breadth. (Gazetteer of the United States of America, 1854)

    Place Unit Type
    State or Province
    Containing Unit
    Date Type
    Almost 40,000 Missourians are now in Union uniform, according to state reports Battles/Soldiers
    From Missouri, Carl Schurz writes to his wife of his success in winning German-born voters to the Republican side Campaigns/Elections
    General John C. Fremont declares martial law in Missouri and orders emancipation of slaves in the state Lawmaking/Litigating
    General John Schofield replaces abolitionist General Samuel Curtis in the Department of the Missouri Battles/Soldiers
    In Richmond, the Confederate Congress votes to admit Missouri as the Confederacy's eleventh state Lawmaking/Litigating
    Insurgents destroy track and equipment along a hundred mile stretch of the North Missouri Railroad Battles/Soldiers
    Major-General Henry Wager Halleck, "Old Brains," is appointed to head the new Union Department of the Missouri Battles/Soldiers
    Missouri "border ruffians" murder five freesoilers near Marais des Cygnes in Kansas Military/Violent
    - Missouri Democratic Party Convention meets in Jefferson City Campaigns/Elections
    Missouri Legislature adjourns and the Governor immediately recalls it Lawmaking/Litigating
    Missouri state house passes bill expelling free blacks from the state Slavery/Abolition
    Near Island 16 in the Mississippi, a riverboat is destroyed by fire and twenty-five lives lost Crime/Disasters
    President Lincoln orders General John C. Fremont to modify his emancipation mandate in Missouri Lawmaking/Litigating
    Birthplace of
    Name Type
    Adair County, MO County
    Andrew County, MO County
    Atchison County, MO County
    Audrain County, MO County
    Barry County, MO County
    Bates County, MO County
    Benton County, MO County
    Bollinger County, MO County
    Boone County, MO County
    Buchanan County, MO County
    Butler County, MO County
    Caldwell County, MO County
    Callaway County, MO County
    Camden County, MO County
    Cape Girardeau County, MO County
    Carroll County, MO County
    Cass County, MO County
    Cedar County, MO County
    Chariton County, MO County
    Christian County, MO County
    Clark County, MO County
    Clay County, MO County
    Clinton County, MO County
    Cole County, MO County
    Cooper County, MO County
    Crawford County, MO County
    Dade County, MO County
    Dallas County, MO County
    Daviess County, MO County
    Dekalb County, MO County
    Dent County, MO County
    Dodge County, MO County
    Douglas County, MO County
    Dunklin County, MO County
    Franklin County, MO County
    Gasconade County, MO County
    Gentry County, MO County
    Greene County, MO County
    Grundy County, MO County
    Harrison County, MO County
    Henry County, MO County
    Hickory County, MO County
    Holt County, MO County
    Howard County, MO County
    Iron County, MO County
    Jackson County, MO County
    Jasper County, MO County
    Jefferson County, MO County
    Johnson County, MO County
    Knox County, MO County
    Laclede County, MO County
    Lafayette County, MO County
    Lawrence County, MO County
    Lewis County, MO County
    Lincoln County, MO County
    Linn County, MO County
    Livingston County, MO County
    Macon County, MO County
    Madison County, MO County
    Maries County, MO County
    Marion County, MO County
    McDonald County, MO County
    Mercer County, MO County
    Miller County, MO County
    Mississippi County, MO County
    Moniteau County, MO County
    Monroe County, MO County
    Montgomery County, MO County
    Morgan County, MO County
    New Madrid County, MO County
    Newton County, MO County
    Nodaway County, MO County
    Oregon County, MO County
    Osage County, MO County
    Ozark County, MO County
    Pemiscot County, MO County
    Perry County, MO County
    Pettis County, MO County
    Phelps County, MO County
    Pike County, MO County
    Platte County, MO County
    Polk County, MO County
    Pulaski County, MO County
    Putnam County, MO County
    Ralls County, MO County
    Randolph County, MO County
    Ray County, MO County
    Reynolds County, MO County
    Ripley County, MO County
    Saline County, MO County
    Schuyler County, MO County
    Scotland County, MO County
    Scott County, MO County
    Seneca County, MO County
    Shannon County, MO County
    Shelby County, MO County
    St. Charles County, MO County
    St. Clair County, MO County
    St. Francois County, MO County
    St. Louis County, MO County
    Ste. Genevieve County, MO County
    Stoddard County, MO County
    Stone County, MO County
    Sullivan County, MO County
    Taney County, MO County
    Texas County, MO County
    Vernon County, MO County
    Warren County, MO County
    Washington County, MO County
    Wayne County, MO County
    Wright County, MO County
    Date Title
    Louisville (KY) Journal, "Freight on the Underground Railroad," January 21, 1854
    Abraham Lincoln, Speech at Peoria, Illinois, October 16, 1854
    Abraham Lincoln's Speech at Springfield, Illinois, June 10, 1856
    Louisville (KY) Journal, "The Case of Dred Scott," December 27, 1856
    Washington (DC) National Era, "Black Republicanism in Missouri," January 1, 1857
    Washington (DC) National Era, "The Future Judged by the Past," January 1, 1857
    New York Times, "Kansas Affairs," January 3, 1857
    New York Times, “Gubernatorial Inaugurals,” January 20, 1857
    New York Times, “The Question of Emancipation in Missouri,” February 14, 1857
    Boston (MA) Herald, “The Dred Scott Decision,” March 7, 1857
    New York Times, "From Washington," March 9, 1857
    Boston (MA) Herald, “The Dred Scott Case,” March 9, 1857
    New York Herald, "The Decision in the Dred Scott," March 9, 1857
    New York Times, “Slavery in Missouri,” April 9, 1857
    Washington (DC) National Era, “A Fire-Eater’s Meditation on the St. Louis Emancipation Victory,” April 23, 1857
    Washington (DC) National Era, "The Southern Press," April 30, 1857
    New York Times, “Where is the South?,” July 11, 1857
    New York Times, "What the Dred Scott Case Decided," July 16, 1857
    Washington (DC) National Era, “The Emancipation Scheme,” August 20, 1857
    Washington (DC) National Era, “Reports of the Kansas Press,” October 29, 1857
    New York Herald, "The Kansas Trouble in Congress," January 3, 1858
    New York Herald, "Kansas as a Slave State," January 7, 1858
    New York Times, "Kansas Affairs," June 3, 1858
    New York Herald, "The Late Meeting of Maryland Slaveholders," July 23, 1858
    (St. Louis) Missouri Republican, “Our Work Is Done,” August 1, 1858
    New York Times, “The Kansas Election,” August 2, 1858
    Quincy (IL) Whig, "Lincoln Gets Douglas Down!," October 15, 1858
    Ripley (OH) Bee, “Retribution,” November 13, 1858
    Bangor (ME) Whig and Courier, “Astounding Development,” November 24, 1858
    New York Times, “The Kansas Troubles,” January 8, 1859
    Lawrence (KS) Herald of Freedom, “Crime is Crime,” February 5, 1859
    Charleston (SC) Mercury, “The Gold Regions of the West,” February 24, 1859
    New York Times, “The Political Future,” February 26, 1859
    Charleston (SC) Mercury, "Slave Stealing in Missouri," March 8, 1859
    New York Times, “Dr. Doy of Kansas,” March 18, 1859
    Charleston (SC) Mercury, “The Missouri Compromise,” March 30, 1859
    (Omaha) Nebraskian, “Ossowatamie [Osawatomie] Brown,” April 2, 1859
    New York Times, "The Brown Invasion Transplanted From Kansas," November 5, 1859
    Charleston (SC) Mercury, “The Democratic Party and Old Brown,” November 8, 1859
    Carlisle (PA) American Volunteer, "Harper's Ferry Trouble," November 10, 1859
    Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Effect of the Dred Scott Decision in Iowa,” February 6, 1860
    Raleigh (NC) Register, “How Firmly United the Democracy Are,” February 22, 1860
    Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “Terrible Tornado in Illinois and Mississippi,” April 30, 1860
    Atchison (KS) Freedom's Champion, “Noble Deeds of Northern Democracy,” June 23, 1860
    Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “What the South Really Fears,” July 25, 1860
    Charlestown (VA) Free Press, "Precipitate A Revolution," August 9, 1860
    New York Times, "Politics at the South," August 10, 1860
    New York Herald, “The Missouri Breckinridge State Convention,” September 23, 1860
    New York Herald , "Vindication of the Fugitive Slave Law in Ottawa," October 13, 1860
    William T. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, November 23, 1860
    Cleveland (OH) Herald, “The Kansas News,” November 23, 1860
    Lowell (MA) Citizen & News, “A British Opinion of American Disunion,” December 12, 1860
    Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “A Remarkable Statement,” December 20, 1860
    New York Herald, “Coercion Symptoms in the West and North-West,” January 15, 1861
    Memphis (TN) Appeal, “Enforcement of the Laws,” February 24, 1861
    Cleveland (OH) Herald, “Beauties of the ‘Institution’,” April 2, 1861
    David D. Field to Abraham Lincoln, April 23, 1861
    Chicago (IL) Tribune, “Secession Wounded in Missouri,” April 27, 1861
    Savannah (GA) News, “The Civil War in Missouri,” May 17, 1861
    New York Times, “The Bitter Fruits,” June 10, 1861
    Ripley (OH) Bee, “Fugitives from Oppression,” June 20, 1861
    Boston (MA) Advertiser, “The Coming Man,” June 25, 1861
    Chicago (IL) Tribune, “Missouri,” July 13, 1861
    Boston (MA) Advertiser, “Missouri Discontents,” July 22, 1861
    John C. Fremont to Abraham Lincoln, July 30, 1861
    Ozias Mather Hatch to Abraham Lincoln, August 17, 1861
    Gen. John Fremont, Declaration of Martial Law in Missouri, August 30, 1861
    Abraham Lincoln to Orville Hickman Browning, September 22, 1861
    President Jefferson Davis, Message to the Confederate Congress, November 18, 1861
    Claiborne Fox Jackson to the Soldiers and Fellow-Citizens of Missouri, December 13, 1861
    Major-General Henry Wager Halleck, General Order 32, Department of Missouri, December 22, 1861
    Abraham Lincoln to John M. Schofield, Monday, June 22, 1863, Washington, D.C.
    William Elisha Stoker to Elizabeth E. Stoker, October 12, 1862
    Willard P. Hall to Abraham Lincoln, May 12, 1864
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