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The Civil War in Missouri
Battle of Belmont
| January 8, 1818 | Missouri petitions for statehood | Missouri |
| Missouri Compromise (Compromise of 1820) | ||
| March 16, 1818 | Missouri's petition for statehood is presented to the U. S. House. It is not considered before the end of the session. | Missouri |
| Missouri Compromise (Compromise of 1820) | ||
| December 18, 1818 | Missouri petitions the U. S. House to be admitted to the Union for the second time. | Missouri |
| Missouri Compromise (Compromise of 1820) | ||
| February 13, 1819 | Bill permitting Missouri to draw up a state constitution to be admitted to the Union comes to the floor of the House. | Missouri |
| Missouri Compromise (Compromise of 1820) | ||
| February 17, 1819 | After several days of sharp debate the House passes the Missouri statehood bill including both parts of the Tallmadge Amendment, marking the first legislation demanding the abolition of slavery. The act is sent to the Senate where the bill is never voted on. | Missouri |
| Missouri Compromise (Compromise of 1820) | ||
| Civil War Firsts | ||
| abolition | ||
| March 1, 1820 | Missouri Compromise moves out of conference committee and to the floor of the House and Senate for debate. | Maine Missouri |
| Missouri Compromise (Compromise of 1820) | ||
| March 3, 1820 | Maine admitted to the U. S. as a free state, Missouri admitted to the U. S. as a slave state. | Missouri Maine |
| Missouri Compromise (Compromise of 1820) | ||
| July 1, 1820 | At a convention in St. Louis, Missouri passes a pro-slave state constitution. | Missouri |
| Missouri Compromise (Compromise of 1820) | ||
| August 10, 1821 | Missouri is admitted to the Union | Missouri |
| Missouri Compromise (Compromise of 1820) | ||
| Causes of the Civil War | ||
| April 9, 1837 | Lieutenant Robert E. Lee is ordered to St. Louis to rework the Mississippi River commercial channel. | Missouri |
| Robert E. Lee | ||
| December 6, 1837 | Robert E. Lee submits a plan to save the port of St. Louis | Missouri |
| Robert E. Lee | ||
| January 11, 1861 | Federal soldiers seize buildings in St. Louis to prevent them from falling into Rebel hands | Missouri |
| March 21, 1861 | Missouri secessionist convention adjourns having voted 98-1 against secession | Missouri |
| Confederate Order of Secession | ||
| April 25, 1861 | In a daring nighttime operation Illinois troops steam from Alton to St. Louis and remove 10,000 muskets with the help of federal troops in the armory | Missouri Illinois |
| May 10, 1861 | Nathaniel Lyons [US] takes control of St. Louis to end rioting, seizing Camp Jackson (Confederate militia) and 1200 1855 Springfield Rifles | Missouri |
| 1855 Springfield Rifle | ||
| May 15, 1861 | Nathaniel Lyons [US] occupies Jefferson City, capital of Missouri | Missouri |
| May 21, 1861 | Missouri declares its neutrality in the Civil War | Missouri |
| Confederate Order of Secession | ||
| May 21, 1861 | Sterling Price signs an agreement with William Harney, essentially handing Missouri over to federal forces. | Missouri |
| Sterling Price | ||
| May 24, 1861 | Sterling Price refuses to disband his troops | Missouri |
| Sterling Price | ||
| June 17, 1861 | Nathaniel Lyons captures Boonville | Missouri |
| July 11, 1861 | Sterling Price, Confederate governor Claiborne Jackson, Nathaniel Lyon, and Francis Blair meet at Planters' House in St. Louis to discuss a truce. Lyon was quoted as saying "This means war" after the talks end abruptly | Missouri |
| Sterling Price | ||
| August 10, 1861 | Battle of Wilson's Creek [US]
Battle of Springfield [CS] Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon [US] is killed in the Confederate victory |
Missouri |
| Generals Who Died In the Civil War | ||
| Sterling Price | ||
| August 28, 1861 | Ulysses S. Grant is given command of federal forces in Southern Illinois and Southeastern Missouri | Missouri Illinois |
| Ulysses S. Grant | ||
| August 30, 1861 | John C. Fremont declares martial law in Missouri and frees slaves of Missouri Confederates. | Missouri |
| John C. Fremont | ||
| The Emancipation of Slaves | ||
| September 11, 1861 | President Lincoln orders John C. Fremont to rescind his order freeing some slaves in Missouri and issue a new order conforming to the Confiscation Act passed by Congress | Missouri |
| Abraham Lincoln | ||
| John C. Fremont | ||
| The Emancipation of Slaves | ||
| Committee on the Conduct of the War | ||
| September 12, 1861 September 20, 1861 |
Battle of Lexington
Sterling Price, with 18,000 men, lays siege to Lexington, Missouri, with a federal force of 3.600 under Colonel James Mulligan. After fighting intensified on September 19, Mulligan surrendered on the 20th. |
Missouri |
| Sterling Price | ||
| November 2, 1861 | President Lincoln relieves John C. Frémont from duty. | Missouri |
| John C. Fremont | ||
| November 7, 1861 | Battle of Belmont
U. S. Grant [US] defeats Gideon Pillow [CS]. Grant's men are then routed by B. F. Cheatham [CS]. Losses: U. S. 607 C. S. 641 |
Missouri |
| Ulysses S. Grant | ||
| Gideon Pillow | ||
| Battle of Belmont | ||
| Benjamin Franklin Cheatham | ||
| Leonidas Polk | ||
| November 19, 1861 | Henry W. Halleck assumes command of Union forces in Missouri | Missouri |
| Henry Halleck | ||
| March 3, 1862 | General John Pope lays siege to New Madrid | Missouri |
| John Pope | ||
| March 14, 1862 | Following a two week siege, federals under John Pope take New Madrid. | Missouri |
| John Pope | ||
| April 7, 1862 | Island No. 10, in the Mississippi River downstream from New Madrid, is captured. More than 5,000 Confederates are taken prisoner | Missouri |
| John Pope | ||
| August 6, 1862 | Battle of Kirksville | Missouri |
| April 17, 1863 | Brigadier General John Marmaduke [CS] leaves Arkansas and enters Missouri on a raid | Missouri |
| August 19, 1863 | 300 men under the command of William Quantrill, popularly known as Quantrill's Raiders, leave Blackwater Creek, Missouri heading for Lawrence, Kansas | Kansas Missouri |
| August 21, 1863 | Quantrill's Raiders, now numbering more 400, attack Lawrence, Kansas, killing every male they could find who was old enough to carry a gun (a total of 183 men). One they missed was U. S. Senator James H. Lane, who hid in a cornfield in his nightshirt. Quantrill's men burned the town following the raid | Kansas Missouri |
| August 25, 1863 | In response to Quantrill's raid on Lawrence, Kansas, Brigadier General Thomas Ewing [US] orders civilians out of their homes in 3 Missouri counties (Jackson, Cass and Bates) and parts of a fourth (Vernon). Union soldiers burn the homes, barns and crops. | Missouri |
| January 11, 1864 | The 13th Amendment (ending slavery) to the Constitution is proposed by Senator John B. Henderson of Missouri. | Missouri |
| The Emancipation of Slaves | ||
| January 22, 1864 | William S. Rosecrans is ordered to take command of the Department of Missouri, replacing John Schofield | Missouri |
| William S. Rosecrans | ||
| January 23, 1864 | Trade restrictions for Missouri and Kentucky are lifted | Kentucky Missouri |
| September 27, 1864 | A small Confederate force under "Bloody" Bill Anderson attacks Centralia, Missouri. 24 Union soldiers are killed in the town and another 116 are killed in an ambush. | Missouri |
| October 23, 1864 | Battle of Westport | Missouri |
| January 25, 1867 | Missouri ratifies the 14th Amendment | Missouri |
| 14th Amendment | ||
| January 10, 1869 | [circa] At Fort Cobb, in response to Comanche Chief Toch-a-way's remark "Me good Indian," Phil Sheridan replies, "The only good Indian is a dead Indian." | Missouri |
| Philip Sheridan | ||
| June 27, 1876 June 29, 1876 |
Reform New York governor Samuel Tilden easily won the Democratic nomination for President at the convention in St. Louis | Missouri |
| Election of 1876 | ||
| Democratic Party |
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