A Veterans Salute

According to family legend this Revolutionary War Veteran heard the first reading of the Declaration of Independence.

Archer Alexander

The Story of Archer Alexander from Slavery to Freedom March 30, 1863 by William G. Eliot, a member of the Western Sanitary Commission St. Louis was published by Cupples, Upham and Company, Old Corner Bookstore in 1885 in Boston Massachusetts. Eliot shares the life of a former slave from Virginia, brought to Missouri, whose brave