Canton’s Christian University was the home base for numerous Union troops in Northeast Missouri in the early months of the Civil War. A century and a half later, the school now known as Culver-Stockton College commemorated its unique place in Civil War history with a two-day symposium, “1861: The College, The Community, The War,” featuring a day-long hands-on demonstration Thursday for area high school students.

A highlight of Thursday’s presentation was a workshop on Civil War-era music and dance, led by area re-enactors and C-SC Dean David Wilson. Below, students from Palmyra High School learn a dance called a reel as musicians play the period tune “Blackberry Blossom.”

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