re: Missouri Confederate Forces Were 1st to Kill Union General in Civil War

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Everyone should care about history. But Missouri never joined the Confederacy. Are you trying to brag about starting the worst conflict in American History, then only participating in it slightly?

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It is nothing to brag about, but Missouri citizens were not slight participants. I have ancestors that fought in the war. Some wearing grey and some in blue. It was a difficult time for many outside the Deep South. The heartbreak was color blind.

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Are you trying to brag about starting the worst conflict in American History, then only participating in it slightly?

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They didn't even start it. The Battle of Wilson's Creek wasn't even the first major battle of the Civil War. Missouri supplied far more troops to the Union than they did the Confederacy, the state itself remained within the Union for the duration of the war, and of all the states within the Southeastern Conference, Missouri is probably the least southern of all of them.

Also...years before Missouri got itself involved in Bleeding Kansas, South Carolina came very close to seceding from the Union during the Nullification Crisis of 1832.