Lawrence County MO Historical Society

Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield will present “Tracing Your Civil War Ancestor” from 2-4 p.m. on August 7th and 8th.

The program is intended for beginning genealogists who are attempting to find relatives who fought for the Union and the Confederacy and tracing their service histories.

Park staff members will instruct those attending the program in the process of locating a Civil War soldier or sailor relative, finding personal information in state and federal archives centers, and tracing the histories of particular Civil War units and ships. Attendees also will learn more about the unique holdings of the Hulston Library at Wilson’s Creek.

The program is free of charge and will be in the battlefield library’s multipurpose room. Registration is not required. For more information, call 417-732-2662 or send e-mail to jeffrey_patrick@nps.gov.

Administered by the National Park Service, Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield preserves the site of the first major engagement of the Civil War in the West, site where the first Union general was killed in the Civil War and evokes the rural character experienced by the combatants. The site is considered to be one of the best-preserved battlefields in the National Park System. Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield is 10 miles southwest of Springfield at Greene County ZZ and Farm Road 182.

For more information about Springfield, visit www.SpringfieldAdventures.com or call the Convention & Visitors Bureau at 800-678-8767.