CAIRO HISTORY: CUSTOM HOUSE OFFERS GLIMPSE OF CIVIL WAR

This article comes from our electronic archive and has not been reviewed. It may contain glitches.
Wednesday, October 9, 1996

A centerpiece of the museum is this Grant exhibit, which features the desk used by Gen. U.S. Grant during his command at Cairo in the first six months of the Civil War.

To continue reading
For more than 115 years, the Southeast Missourian has written the first draft of local history. We have aspired to enrich, entertain, educate and inform. Our core values have remained firm: truth, service, quality, integrity and community. Support our mission.