Civil War | Cemetery
Forest Hill Cemetery
Missouri
6901 Troost Avenue
Kansas City, MO 64131
United States
This cemetery is the site of the celebrated Confederate cavalryman Gen. J.O. Shelby's heroic stand that saved Price's army. A large Confederate monument in the cemetery is surrounded by graves of the Confederate dead, including Shelby's.
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