STRAYED, a patroitic mailing envelope that was widely published after the First Battle of Boonville.

Frank Blair
Etching of the First Battle of Boonville.
An etching of General Lyon leaving Boonville in July 1861.
General Egbert Benson Brown
Captain Mason Brown, brother of William who were both killed during the Second Battle of Boonville in September 1861.
Colonel William Brown, brother of Mason who were both killed during the Second Battle of Boonville in September 1861.
Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, later Governor of Missouri.
Boonville native, Joseph A. Eppstein, was Captain of the Boonville Home Guards in 1861. He became Major of the Sixth Regiment Missouri Militia; Colonel of the 13 Regiment Missouri State Militia and Colonel of the 5th Regiment Missouri State Militia.
Boonville native, Joseph A. Eppstein, was Captain of the Boonville Home Guards in 1861. He became Major of the Sixth Regiment Missouri Militia; Colonel of the 13 Regiment Missouri State Militia and Colonel of the 5th Regiment Missouri State Militia.
John Hayn who was killed on the Union battlements during the Second Battle of Boonville in September of 1861.
Claiborne Fox Jackson, Governor of Missouri during the start of the Civil War. He choose the Confederacy and died in exile.
John Marmaduke commanded the Confederate forces during the First Battle of Boonville. Disgusted with being forced into battle he entered the regular Confederate forces and covered himself in glory.
General Nathaniel Lyon, commander of the Union forces in Missouri at the outbreak of the Civil War. He died in the battle of Wilson's Creek.
Prominent Boonville citizen Robert A McMahan played a noteable role in the Second Battle of Boonville.
Cooper County son, Robert McCulloch, who served in the Confederate forces.
General Sterling Price, Mexican War Veteran, and leader of the Confederate forces in Missouri.
General Sterling Price, Mexican War Veteran, and leader of the Confederate forces in Missouri.
General William Starke Rosecrans.
Guerilla leader, Charles Fletcher Taylor.
The death photograph of Bill or William Sturat. Sturat was a local confederate guerilla who killed a number of local union people.
George M. Todd, another guerilla who rode rampant through Cooper County.
Thomas B. Wright, a Union officer, who commanded a number of local militia units.
General Orville Shelby, a Missouri native and Confederate officer who never surrendered. He marched through Boonville and Cooper County in 1863 and again in 1864.
German Franz Siegel, a native of Germany, who commanded most of the Union German forces in Missouri. We march mit Siegel was the German banner cry.
A service commerated the deaths of members from the Fourth Regiment Missouri State Militia who were killed by Bloody Bill Anderson on 28 Aug 1864. This photograph is the unveiling of the funeral marker located in Sunset Hills Cemetery in Boonville.
A service in September of 2002 commerating the deaths of members from the Fourth Regiment Missouri State Militia who were killed by Bloody Bill Anderson on 28 Aug 1864. Local service organizations are shown in this photograph.
A service in September of 2002 commerating the deaths of members from the Fourth Regiment Missouri State Militia who were killed by Bloody Bill Anderson on 28 Aug 1864.
A service in September of 2002 commerating the deaths of members from the Fourth Regiment Missouri State Militia who were killed by Bloody Bill Anderson on 28 Aug 1864. This photograph is a side view of the service.
A service in September of 2002 commerating the deaths of members from the Fourth Regiment Missouri State Militia who were killed by Bloody Bill Anderson on 28 Aug 1864. This photograph is of the marker listing the soldiers who are buried in this mass grave.
A service in September of 2002 commerating the deaths of members from the Fourth Regiment Missouri State Militia who were killed by Bloody Bill Anderson on 28 Aug 1864. This photograph is is a close up of the marker listing the soldiers who are buried in this mass grave.
Union prison located in Alton, Illinois.
Picture of Gratiot Street Prison in the 1860s from “Story of a Border City During the Civil War” by Galusha Anderson published 1908.
James H. Baker, Brigadier General and registrar of public lands at Boonville, Missouri.