Unique Sites
- Only Civil War monument located on a golf
course
- Oldest Union monument erected during the war
west of the Mississippi River
- Second and third oldest Confederate monuments west of the
Mississippi River
- Only Confederate monument with the state of
Illinois listed
- Only U.S. Post Office with a painting showing a
Confederate soldier
- Only Indian cemetery with mass burial of Union
soldiers
- One of only three Confederate monuments erected
and maintained by the federal government
- Three Memorials to Order #11/Burnt District
- Monument to colored soldiers and sailors
- Quantrill sites: Morgan Walker monument, Cave
Hideout, Partisan Ranger monument to "Bloody Bill" Anderson and his men.
Quantrill Reunion Sites, and more.
- Monument to the only person who was President for one day, and fought in the Civil War
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Battlefields
- Skirmish at Rock Creek - first blood spilled in
the area after Fort Sumter
- Battle of Blue Mills Landing / Liberty
- Three Confederate victories in 7 days - 1st Battle of Independence, Battle of Lone
Jack and Battle at White Oak Creek
- Price's 1864 Raid - Battle of the Little Blue, 2nd Battle of Independence, Battle of the Big Blue/Byrams Ford, and the Battle of Westport
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Famous Gravesites
- Confederate General J.O. Shelby and his men
- Confederate General John T. Hughes - Only
Confederate General killed in battle in the state of Missouri
- Union General Samuel Bowman
- Quantrill's men: George Todd, "Bloody Bill" Anderson, Frank and Jesse James, and the Younger brothers
Other Available Tours
- Santa Fe Trail sites
- Border War / John Brown sites
- Oldest Statue of John Brown in the U.S.
- James-Younger Gang sites
- Laugh-O-Gram Studio Building: The birthplace of "mickey mouse"
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