Over twice as many Missourians fought for the Union than the confederacy. > By the end of the war in 1865, nearly 110,000 Missourians had served in the Union A

Over twice as many Missourians fought for the Union than the confederacy. > By the end of the war in 1865, nearly 110,000 Missourians had served in the Union Army and at least 40,000 in the Confederate Army https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_in_the_American_Civil_War https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_in_the_American_Civ... It is likely that many of today's Missouri residents had ancestors who fought, and possibly even died, in the fight to end slavery.