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Title: Vicksburg
Date: 1953-04-06
Description: Steamer (Vicksburg) of the Federal Barge Line passing service base. This vessel is 33 years old. It and its sister boats are about to be junked.

Title: St. Louis Levee
Date: 1858-06-16
Description: . ALONZO CHILD: Built at Louisville, Kentucky in 1857. Dimensions:1 222 x 36 x 6.5 feet; 493 tons. She had six boilers and her engines were 24 inches in diameter and 7-foot stroke. Along with other Confederate-owned steamboats, she was up Yazoo River on November 16, 1862 and at Yazoo City in May, 1863. At that time it was described in a report by a Union officer as a \"large boat whose machinery has been

Title: Letter from Zebulon Pike to Captain Daniel Bissell, June 11, 1806
Page From: info:fedora/umsl:39462
Date: 1806-06-11
Description: Letter from Zebulon Pike to Daniel Bissell in June of 1806 discussing military affairs and the maintaining of Pike's home.
Text: No 5 Bell Foutain. 11 June 1806. Dr. Sir Yours of the 28th June & 2� July was handed me by W. Nughz and shall be noticed in rotation, as in the first you are more than commonly complementary, but work me up after by the notice of my omission in not sending you a return of the Detachment but see here a plain tale will put you down. I was informed on my return, that all my Detachment
Show moreNo 5 Bell Foutain. 11 June 1806. Dr. Sir Yours of the 28th June & 2� July was handed me by W. Nughz and shall be noticed in rotation, as in the first you are more than commonly complementary, but work me up after by the notice of my omission in not sending you a return of the Detachment but see here a plain tale will put you down. I was informed on my return, that all my Detachment
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Title: Gene C. Hutchinson
Date: 1953-06-03
Description: M/V (Gene C. Hutchinson) passing service base.

Title: Sp-Am War I
Date: 1949-11-06
Description: Long rated as one of the state's crack National Guard units, Light Battery A had its banner hanging from a tree to mark its camp ground and to guide visitors about the company's section in CampStephens.

Title: Jefferson Barracks Soldiers
Date: 1938-06-04
Description: Buttons got a special shine yesterday at Jefferson Barracks, where Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring inspected the Sixth Infantry.

Title: Baseball On The Barracks Schedule
Date: 1937-07-06
Description: The better seems to be claiming the pitcher substituted a cannonball for a baseball in one of the games frequently staged between companies.

Title: Exuberant Blackhawk Veterans
Date: 1945-06-20
Description: Members of the first full unit to return from Europe, arrived last night at Jefferson Barracks.

Title: Camp Stephens in Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1949-11-06, 1949-11-06
Description: Leveling rifles for Boehl's camera is a company of the Seventh Regiment, U.S. Volunteers, a unit authorized by Congress. Idea was to enlist recruits in Missouri and southern states where yellow fever had been severe. Theory was they were immune to disease, which was claiming more lives than guns. The 7th was recruited among Negroes in Missouri and neighboring states for what might very well have turned out to be a deadly assignment, five years prior to Dr. Walter Reed's discovery of the yellow fever cycle.

Title: No Drilling Needed For This--Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1937-07-06, 1937-07-06
Description: Eating--This is one thing recruits at Jefferson Barracks do not have to be taught. After hours of drilling and exercise they say they "just come by it natural." This menu includes potatoes, pears, lettuce, coffee, bread, veal and peaches.

Title: Seeing What Makes It Tick--Jefferson Barracks
Date: 1937-07-06, 1937-07-06
Description: Private Bredemeyer thought he would take this machine gun apart to see what made it "tick." An apparent case of "spring fever" is handicapping his efforts to get it back together again.

Title: Tanks Down The Road
Date: 1939-07-28
Description: The light tanks of the Sixth Tank Company at Jefferson Barracks, under command of Capt. J. H. Gilbreth, departed last night for Arcadia, MO., where combat problems will be worked out by 41 officers of the 420th Infantry, Reserves, as the final part of their tank training at Jefferson Barracks this season.

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Westbound Recruits
Date: 1939-10-13, 1969-10-08
Description: "Pre-war recruits leave from Jefferson Barracks railroad station bound for the West Coast in 1939."

Title: Sp-Am War I (11)
Date: 1949-11-06
Description: Camp Stephens, Jefferson Barracks, showing some of the youngladies and gentlesmen of St. Louis visiting with their friends who have gone into camp for the Spanish-American War.

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Native American Recruits
Date: 1942-06-07, 1942-06-07
Description: Original article: "Private Robert L. Wilburn of Cabool, Mo. (kneeling with rifle), a 54-year-old former Indian fighter, and these eight full-blooded Sioux Indians have buried the hatchet at Jefferson Barracks and are training for a chance at Hitler's scalp. As a member of the Second Cavalry in South Dakota during Ute uprising of 1908, Private Wilburn fought against parents and grandparents of

Title: Jefferson Barracks Training Course
Date: 1942-04-06, 1942-04-06
Description: Toughening up for action in an obstacle race are these Jefferson Barracks soldiers. The 4-foot rail fence was only one of the obstacles that marked the quarter-mile course over which the trainees yesterday were sent in groups of six, armed and helmeted and ready for the enemy.

Title: Eads Bridge-Get A Boat!
Date: 1939-04-22, 1939-04-22
Description: A train steaming in the overflow at Eads Bridge.

Title: An Overhead View of Eads Bridge
Date: 1974-06-30, 1974-06-30
Description: A view of the top of the Eads Bridge.

Title: Apex Oil Co Building
Date: 1986-03-06
Description: Above, the Apex Oil Co. building takes shape at the corner of Maryland Avenue and Forsyth Boulevard in Clayton.

Title: Eads Bridge Tunnel
Date: 1941-07-06, 1941-07-06
Description: A view through the arches of the Eads Bridge just before entering the tunnel.

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