Undated photograph of Main Street in Paris, Monroe County, Missouri. Jackson Township, Monroe County (where Paris is located) contained more than 3,700 people in 1860.

The first Confederate unit in the area was organized here in 1861. Union forces briefly occupied the town in July 1862; on October 15, 1864, about 400 Confederates attacked a company of Federal militia quartered in the Glenn House Hotel. The militia surrendered after a three-hour battle.

Carte-de-Visite by S.A. Rice & Bros. Paris, Mo.

Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 31587