General Sweeny's - A Museum Of Civil War History

Explore the rich Civil War heritage of the Ozark Mountain Country, at General Sweeny's Museum of Civil War History and adjacent Wilson's Creek National Battlefield. Our facility displays artifacts and weapons of the war in the Trans-Mississippi, more familiarly known as the area west of the Mississippi River.

The collection consists of several thousand artifacts that have been accumulated over the last 40 years. It is a unique collection, displayed in over 50 exquisite and professionally designed cases. We are the first, and only, private museum in the United States that tells the story of the Civil War in the West.

Our displays will take you through the Civil War, beginning in Kansas during the 1850's. Here you can ride with John Brown, and his Kansas abolitionists, fighting the pro slavery border ruffians from Missouri. Several large displays tell the story of the battle of Wilson's Creek. View artifacts from this battle, along with weapons, a uniform, photographs of participants from both sides and two of the five Congressional Medals of Honor awarded for gallantry in this action.

Many rare and unusual artifacts also cover the war in Arkansas, the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), and Louisiana. They will then take you into Tennessee, to the battle of Shiloh, and into Mississippi to the battles of Corinth and Vicksburg. Many lesser known battles in Missouri and Arkansas are also featured. You will march with General Sterling Price, and his Missourians, in a last effort to capture Missouri for the Confederacy. See John Bell Hood's debacle at Franklin, Tennessee, where Gen. Pat Cleburne, and thousands of other Confederate soldiers, needlessly fell. Then witness the final battle between Missourians at the battle of Ft. Blakely, Alabama, while Lee and Grant were signing the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse.