Tonya McQuade

How the St. Louis Wide Awakes Helped to Keep Missouri in the Union

by Tonya McQuade

Posted on June 20, 2024

It Didn’t End with Lee’s Surrender at Appomattox: A Look at the Surrenders of Gen. Joseph Johnston and Gen. Kirby Smith on April 26 and May 26, 1865 – Part II

by Tonya McQuade

Posted on April 26, 2024

It Didn’t End with Lee’s Surrender at Appomattox: A Look at the Surrenders of Gen. Joseph Johnston and Gen. Kirby Smith on April 26 and May 26, 1865 – Part I

by Tonya McQuade

Posted on April 26, 2024

How John Brown’s wife Mary ended up living in California and buried at Madronia Cemetery in Saratoga, Part II

by Tonya McQuade

Posted on March 27, 2024

How John Brown’s wife Mary ended up living in California and buried at Madronia Cemetery in Saratoga, Part I

by Tonya McQuade

Posted on March 26, 2024

To Catch a Gar: A Soldier’s Letters from Helena, Arkansas in March 1863

by Tonya McQuade

Posted on March 18, 2024

A Celebration of Black History … When Missouri Voted to Emancipate Its Slaves Prior to the Passage of the Thirteenth Amendment

by Tonya McQuade

Posted on February 14, 2024

A State Divided: A New Book Featuring 50 Previously-Unpublished Civil War Letters Provides Insights on Why Many Believe the Civil War Started in Missouri

by Tonya McQuade

Posted on January 22, 2024

“The Long Shadow of Lincoln” as portrayed in Norman Rockwell’s Painting and Carl Sandburg’s Poem in 1945

by Tonya McQuade

Posted on January 11, 2024