STE. GENEVIEVE – The story of Moses Riney, a slave who took up arms to end slavery and
restore the Union, will become a permanent part of the Sainte Genevieve
Museum Learning Center in a formal ceremony on Sunday, May 22 at 1:00
p.m.
Guest speakers include Mayor Paul Hassler, Mike Schaff from the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War and Anita Alsup, whose beautiful painting of Riney will be hung in the museum as a permanent reminder of his life and times. She based her painting on the tintype photo here.
To add perspective to the Civil War discussion, Greg Wolk will give a presentation in the museum’s theater room entitled “FORGED IN MISSOURI: ULYSSES GRANT AND THE SHOW-ME STATE,” and it will focus month by month on Grant’s activities in Missouri in the months of July to November, 1861. He will place particular emphasis on Grant’s “nemeses,” two of which were general officers of the United States Army, and one of which was actually the enemy, Missouri’s famous “Swamp Fox,” General Jeff Thompson of the Missouri State Guard.
Wolk will also have his book, Friend and Foe Alike, A Tour Guide to Missouri’s Civil War, for sale and proceeds will go entirely to the museum.
The SGMLC invites the public to this special Moses Riney dedication.