Thank you, Carl. Thank you for this site! Missouri's Civil War Heritage Foundation (of which I am executive director) is going to press soon with the map of the northeast leg of the "U. S. Grant Trail", which will complement our Gray Ghosts Trail in central Missouri. I found old friend Craig Asbury when someone in Mexico brought up the Old Village Cemetery. We're going to see if we can mark the site of the Centralia casualties' burials. Help is appreciated.

Also, Grant in his Memoirs stated that the 21st Illinois camped at the "commons" in Mexico. Does anyone have information about the location of the camp. The old fairgrounds, it appears, was in the northeast part of town, along Monroe Street.

Should I have started a new thread?