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Missouri

6901 Troost Avenue
Kansas City, MO 64131

Website: http://interment.net/data/us/mo/jackson/foresthill/forest.htm

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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