Pony Express & Other St. Joseph Historic Clippings Notebook, Civil War
Entry/Object ID
2009.3.599 E
Description
Pony Express & Other St. Joseph Historic Clippings Notebook, Re: Civil War
News Clippings most probably from an old scrapbook in the possession of Don Reynolds that he dismantled and saved certain St. Joseph-related articles. Clippings were fragile & crumbling. Photocopies made of the articles and compiled into a notebook. 09.3.559.
1. Union Cemetery Grave Stone Carry Dates Back to 1750, Kansas City Star, Aug. 21, 1935.
News story about cemetery in Kansas City, midway between Westport & town called Kansas in 1857. There are 500 unidentified soldiers buried there from beginng with the War of 1812 to World War I. At least 1000 Civil War soldiers were buried there during that war, including 15 Confederate prisoners of war who died in Kansas City. Includes a list of Kansas City early settlers buried there, including Alexander Majors and George Caleb Bingham.
1/Notebook, 3-ring/Section 4