Fans of Missouri’s Civil War and art history heritage have an opportunity to discuss both topics as Friends of Arrow Rock launch their 2013 lecture series this weekend.
Saturday’s lecture, presented by Joan Stack, curator of art collections at the State Historical Society of Missouri, is set to begin at 10 a.m. at the Arrow Rock State Historic Site Visitor’s Center and will focus on the meaning of George Caleb Bingham’s Civil War painting “General Order No. 11,” which the Arrow Rock artist set to canvas in 1868. The order, issued by Union Army Gen. Thomas Ewing just days after William Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, Kan., forced the expulsion of rural residents of Bates, Cass, Jackson and Vernon counties.
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