One of the place that I will visit while in the St Louis area is Jefferson Barracks.
Besides being an old military post, Jefferson Barracks holds a special interest for me in that it was the first post of a young lieutenant from northern Indiana who would later become the Surgeon General of the Army. I want to stop off and do a little be of research here for my book on General Merritt Weber Ireland.
In reading the internet histories of the post, it somehow is fitting that this was Ireland's first post as it had been one of the largests military hospitals of the Civil War.
The post is now divided up in a Veterans Hospital, a National Cemetery second in size to only Arlington and a city park which houses a number of museums in old buildings.
More later....
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