The Missouri Civil War Museum is a recently restored building located on the parade grounds at the Jefferson Barracks Historic Site in Saint Louis. As the oldest operational military installation west of the Mississippi River, Jefferson Barracks has served soldiers in every major military war in America’s history from the Black Hawk War to the current conflict in Afghanistan. During the Civil War, this location stood as the foundation of various hospital buildings where the soldiers who battled, suffered and died. Now this three-story building is fully renovated to honor our soldiers of the past and present. It is the largest of several independant museums
constructed in previous army buildings and houses more than 1,500 items ranging from uniforms, field cannons, medical equipement, muskets, swords and other historical artifacts... and the collection is still growing. The Museum tells the story of the years leading up to the Civil War, all the way through to its reverberation, including a study ot the wars lasting effect on pop culture today.