This is a sketch of cannons on the upper deck of a fort.

Heritage Sites

The places highlighted here — formerly called the Civil War Discovery Trail — are not just any places. They are the celebrated sites and structures that bring the earliest chapters of the American story to life, such as battlefields, historic homes, stations on the Underground Railroad, cemeteries, and parks. Together, they constitute the essential stops on a trail to discovering not only America’s military history, but the political, social and human dimensions of the founding and forging of the United States.

This is a landscape sketch of mountains and valleys.
Civil War  |  Cemetery

Bellefontaine Cemetery

St. Louis, Missouri | Bellefontaine has become an outdoor museum, containing fine sculptures and memorial art, and with 87,000 interments, it is also...
Civil War  |  Historic Site

Burke's Station

During the Civil War, African American laborers chopped wood and conveyed it to Burke’s Station, a major Federal timber transportation station located...
Wood engraving depicting soldiers of the 22nd U.S. Colored Troops charging Confederate earthworks during the opening attacks on Petersburg, Virginia, in June 1864. Union soldiers advance under fire as Confederate defenders fight from behind the fortifications.
Civil War  |  Historic Site

Baylor's Farm

The skirmish at Baylor’s Farm proved African American soldiers’ willingness and ability to fight, qualities the Union army would rely on throughout...