U.S. Civil War in Government Documents: MO State Docs

Civil War
IN MISSOURI STATE PUBLICATIONS

With one-click links to the MOBIUS union catalog

Missouri state government publications specifically about the Civil War, published 1861-1865:

1861

• Journal of the Senate, extra session of the rebel legislature called together by a proclamation of C.F. Jackson begun and held at the town of Neosho, Newton County, Missouri, on the twenty-first day of October, 1861
• Annual Report of the Adjutant General of Missouri online
• Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Missouri print
• Journal and proceedings of the Missouri state convention held at Jefferson City and St. Louis, March, 1861

1862

• Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Missouri print
• General orders, circulars and special orders (Missouri Adjutant General)
• Official Register of Missouri troops for 1862
• Journal of the Missouri state convention held in Jefferson City, June, 1862 

1863

• Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Missouri
• General orders, circulars and special orders (Missouri Adjutant General)
• Journal and Proceedings of the Missouri State Convention held in Jefferson City, June 1863

1864

• Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Missouri online
• Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Missouri print
• General orders, circulars and special orders (Missouri Adjutant General)

1865

• Various publications of the Missouri Constitutional Convention, 1865

State serial publications issued during the Civil War:

• State agency annual/biennial reports compiled in the Appendixes to House and Senate journals. For example, see the list for 1861.  Click gold  tabs above to see agencies active in 1863, 1865, etc.
• Senate journals
• House journals
• Missouri session laws (Annual publication has text of laws
  passed at each General Assemby)

Full text books on the Civil War in Missouri
Source: UM Digital Library.  Full text books and government documents published between 1861-1910

Selected Items on the Civil War in Missouri
Source: Missouri Digital Heritage.  This site offers more full text books and government documents, mostly published after the war. 

Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict 1854-1865
The collection provides free access to 6,000 pages about the Civil War in the greater Kansas City region. Highlights include original photos, letters and maps; a comprehensive visual timeline; a configurable Border War map; scholarly essays and encyclopedia entries written by historians.

Federal government sources on the Civil War in Missouri:

See U.S. Civil War in Government Documents, which covers federal government documents focusing on the war in Missouri.

Find more materials on the Civil War (not necessarily just government publications) in the MOBIUS union catalog under these subjects:

• Missouri - History - Civil War, 1861-1865

Also try subject field searches on cities and towns followed by "History Civil War." For example:

• Saint Louis, MO - History - Civil War, 1861-1865
• Carthage, MO - History - Civil War, 1861-1865

Subject field search on Battle names, for example:

• Wilson's Creek, Battle of - MO - 1861
• Pilot Knob, Battle of
• Centralia Massacre

Subject field search on names of prominent individuals, such as:

• Price, Sterling, 1809-1867
• Quantrill, William Clarke, 1837-1865

Finally, try this strategy in the KEYWORD field:

• "United States History Civil War 1861 1865" and Missouri