#jefferson barracks

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Jefferson Barracks, one of the National Cemetery Administrations oldest interment sites, has served as a burial place soldiers from all wars. The original military post was built south of St. Louis, Mo., on the banks of the Mississippi River to replace Fort Bellefontaine. Selected for its strategic geographic location, the post was opened in 1826. Jefferson Barracks became the army’s first permanent base west of the Mississippi River. By the 1840s, it was the largest military establishment in the United States. During the Civil War, Jefferson Barracks served as a training post for the Union Army. There was also a hospital at the post for the Union army’s sick and wounded. [Source: US Dept of Veterans Affairs https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/jeffersonbarracks.asp ]

[thusjuniperus]

the mississippi is up about a dozen feet over flood level and the north jb trail is a matter of inches from being underwater all along its length but that’s not important. what’s important is this snail I found

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Ghost Stories at Jefferson Barracks 10/27/18 @Jefferson Barracks

Ghost Stories at Jefferson Barracks 10/27/18 @Jefferson Barracks

Hear spooky stories told by costumed storytellers above the bluffs of the Mississippi at Jefferson Barracks. Candlelight, woodfires and noises from the woods set the scene for this once-a-year exclusive. Fun for the entire family!!

Call 314-615-8800 or visit the links below for tickets.

6:30pm: https://reserve.stlouisco.com/RecDynamicsWeb/Activities/Details.aspx?session_id=12213&back_url=fi9BY3Rp…

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[matneym]

Chapel The chapel at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery.

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to Singapore

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Fairly interesting assortment of Jefferson Barracks postcards (RPPCs) circa 1904-1910 I found recently on eBay. 

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Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, circa 1832 | Lincoln/Net | NIU Digital Library

Jefferson Barracks was the site of an active United States military post from 1826 to 1946. Named after President Thomas Jefferson, it is located on the west bank of the Mississippi River, approximately ten miles below St. Louis, Missouri.

Jefferson Barracks figured prominently in the Black Hawk War of 1832, as soldiers stationed there deployed to help Illinois troops, including a young Abraham Lincoln, to remove the Sac and Fox tribes from Illinois to Iowa. In the course of the conflict, U.S. troops captured Chief Black Hawk and took him to Jefferson Barracks to be imprisoned.

The installation’s western location made it a prominent factor in the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. In the former conflict, it served as an important training and staging site for troops en route to Mexico. According to historians of the site, this activity made Jefferson Barracks the largest military post in the nation at the time.

At the beginning of the Civil War, Missouri State Guard forces planned to surround Jefferson Barracks with artillery in order to subdue it, but Union forces detected the plot and intervened to check it. In 1862 the Union Army made Jefferson barracks a military hospital, and in the following year the post cemetery became a National Cemetery with the interment of Civil War casualties.

In 1867 Jefferson Barracks became a depot for the United States Army Corps of Engineers, in addition to its ongoing role as a post for active-duty soldiers.

The installation served as an enlistment center during the Spanish-American War, and in World War I it served as an enlistment and demobilization capacity. During World War II it served in these roles, and also became an Army basic training center and technical training site for the U.S. Army Air Corps.

In 1946 the Department of War turned Jefferson Barracks over to the Missouri Air National Guard. Today the site remains a National Guard post, and is also the site of Jefferson Barracks Historic Park.

Posted by Drew VandeCreek, Director of Digital Scholarship and Co-Director, Digital Convergence Lab, Northern Illinois University Libraries