During the Civil War, Benton Barracks was an encampment for Union troops and was located in north St. Louis County, 4-5 miles from the City of St. Louis.
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H.M. Hoxie's full name is Herbert Melville Hoxie. A "truck" in railroading is a locomotive or railroad car wheel assembly usually having two or more axels. Trucks rotate freely beneath locomotives and railroad cars in order to allow them to...
Uriah H. Painter was a prominent Washington correspondent, having represented The Philadelphia Inquirer, and New York Tribune. He was a lobbyist, and entrepreneur of West chester, Pa. and Washington D.C.
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