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May <strong>18</strong>, 20<strong>22</strong><br />
MID RIVERS NEWSMAGAZINE<br />
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HISTORY AT HOME, from page 14<br />
not of a soldier but rather the infant daughter<br />
of an officer. Elizabeth (Eliza) Ann Lash was<br />
laid to rest on Aug. 5, <strong>18</strong>27. Today, more than<br />
237,000 people are buried there.<br />
Of those are Revolutionary War veterans<br />
Private Richard Gentry, Major Russell Bissell<br />
and Colonel Thomas Hunt. Hunt and<br />
Bissell were originally buried at Fort Bellefontaine,<br />
and Gentry was buried near Richmond,<br />
Kentucky. All three men’s remains<br />
were moved to Jefferson Barracks in the<br />
20th century. Also buried there are about<br />
14,000 Civil War soldiers, including 1,140<br />
Confederate soldiers, most of whom were<br />
prisoners of war. Many of the graves of both<br />
Union and Confederate soldiers that are<br />
marked “unknown” are the graves of those<br />
who died of smallpox. They were originally<br />
buried on Arsenal Island also known as<br />
Smallpox Island on the western side of the<br />
Mississippi River across from Alton, Illinois.<br />
Flooding, however, had washed away<br />
their original markers and so the remains<br />
were unidentifiable when they were moved<br />
to Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery.<br />
Within the cemetery, there are many<br />
memorials, including The Fort Bellefontaine<br />
Monument, a red granite boulder<br />
that was donated in 1904 by the Daughters<br />
of the American Revolution in honor of<br />
the officers and soldiers who died at Fort<br />
WHAT TO KNOW BEFORE YOU GO<br />
• Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery is located at<br />
2900 Sheridan Road in south St. Louis (63125). It is open to<br />
visitors every day of the year from dawn until dusk. Memorial<br />
Day observations will be taking place throughout the cemetery<br />
on Sunday, May 29 (when Boy Scouts will be placing flags at<br />
every grave) and Monday, May 30.<br />
• Soldiers Memorial Military Museum is located at 1315<br />
Chestnut St. in St. Louis (63103). It is open from 10 a.m.-5 p.m.<br />
Wednesday through Sunday with a special Memorial Day Commemoration<br />
taking place from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. in the Court of<br />
Honor on Monday, May 30.<br />
• Missouri’s National Veterans Memorial is located at 1172<br />
Veterans Memorial Pkwy. in Perryville, (63775). The Wall and<br />
Welcome Center/Museum are open from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. daily.<br />
• Jefferson Barracks County Park is located at 345 North<br />
Bellefontaine (Belle Fontaine), which was<br />
located about 20 miles north of St. Louis<br />
and is today a county park.<br />
According to the U.S. Department of Veterans<br />
Affairs, the remains of 175 officers<br />
and soldiers of the 56th U.S. Colored Troops<br />
Infantry were removed from a cemetery at<br />
the former Koch Quarantine Hospital in St.<br />
Louis in 1939, and re-interred at Jefferson<br />
Barracks National Cemetery. The men died<br />
of cholera in August <strong>18</strong>66. The monument<br />
to the 56th USCT also was moved from its<br />
original location at Koch hospital and reerected<br />
at Jefferson Barracks.<br />
A water fountain designed by award-winning<br />
architect Eugene J. Mackey Jr. also<br />
serves as a memorial within the cemetery.<br />
Dedicated on Memorial Day 1952, it pays<br />
homage to the 35th Division, an infantry<br />
formation of the U.S. Army National Guard<br />
that dates to 19<strong>18</strong>. Mackey may be best<br />
known locally for designing the Climatron<br />
at the Missouri Botanical Garden, but his<br />
mid-century structure monument made of<br />
polished pink granite is likewise unique as<br />
the only memorial water fountain found in<br />
a National Cemetery Association cemetery.<br />
Many of the memorials have been erected<br />
in the last 25 years, including a carillon<br />
bell tower that was erected as part of the<br />
Road in St. Louis (63125). It is open daily 8 a.m. until 30 minutes<br />
past sunset and features seven museums, including the Old<br />
Ordnance Room, the Powder Magazine Museum, the Visitors<br />
Center, the Laborers House and Ordnance Stable, which are<br />
operated by the county and are free and open to the public from<br />
noon-4 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday. The Jefferson Barracks<br />
POW-MIA Museum (jbpow-mia.org), the Missouri Civil<br />
War Museum (mcwm.org) and the Jefferson Barracks Telephone<br />
Museum (jbtelmuseum.org) are privately operated and<br />
have unique hours and fees. Visit each one’s website for details.<br />
[Editor’s note: Read “The historic legacy of Jefferson Barracks”<br />
on midriversnewsmagazine.com.]<br />
• Fort Belle Fontaine County Park is located at 13002<br />
Bellefontaine Road in north St. Louis (63138). It is open daily 8<br />
a.m. until 30 minutes past sunset.<br />
AMVETS international carillon program to<br />
provide living memorials in honor of American<br />
veterans. According to the U.S. Department<br />
of Veterans Affairs, the bell tower, at<br />
the time of its installation, was described<br />
as “a very fine instrument [whose] beautiful<br />
tones can be heard throughout the entire<br />
cemetery and beyond.”<br />
Every monument and gravesite within<br />
the cemetery has a story to tell. The same<br />
can be said of the Soldiers Memorial<br />
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