One of the Foundation’s main goals is preserving the beautiful Ozarks landscape and preventing development from encroaching into the property surrounding the battlefield. As the Foundation continues its focus on the 615 acres identified in the 2004 Congressional boundary expansion bill, the fact that each day thirty acres of battlefield land is lost to development is ever before us. Read More...

The completion of the Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield General Management Plan (GMP) Amendment in the summer of 2007 confirmed what the Foundation and park officials had already suspected. The Civil War Trans-Mississippi collection that the National Park Service acquired in August of 2005 is being underused in its present location. Read More...

Whether it is known as the Battle of Wilson’s Creek or the Battle of Oak Hills, the conflict that took place on August 10, 1861, in southwest Missouri is regarded as one of the most significant Civil War battles west of the Mississippi. Although the leaders of Federal and Confederate troops and their strategies played a vital role, the placement of artillery also had an important effect on the outcome of the day. Read More...

Just like the soldiers who attended reunions at Wilson’s Creek in the years after the Civil War, we continue to ask the question, “Who will preserve and protect the battlefield when we are gone?” Read More...