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The area was not a major theater of conflict during the [[Civil War]], which broke out soon after the town's founding, but it did see considerable activity early on. Sikes himself was said to have narrowly avoided lynching at the hands of [[Confederate]] guerrillas, while according to another legend, Confederate general M. Jeff Thompson, who dominated Southeast Missouri in the first months of the war, buried money from a bank robbery at nearby Charleston under an oak tree at what is now the corner of New Madrid Street and Kingshighway, though no signs of the money have ever been found. Sikeston was occupied in March 1862 as part of Union General [[John Pope]]'s operations against New Madrid and Island Number Ten; the city had a Union garrison for the rest of the war, though Confederate forces reappeared in the vicinity from time to time.

The area was not a major theater of conflict during the [[Civil War]], which broke out soon after the town's founding, but it did see considerable activity early on. Sikes himself was said to have narrowly avoided lynching at the hands of [[Confederate]] guerrillas, while according to another legend, Confederate general M. Jeff Thompson, who dominated Southeast Missouri in the first months of the war, buried money from a bank robbery at nearby Charleston under an oak tree at what is now the corner of New Madrid Street and Kingshighway, though no signs of the money have ever been found. Sikeston was occupied in March 1862 as part of Union General [[John Pope]]'s operations against New Madrid and Island Number Ten; the city had a Union garrison for the rest of the war, though Confederate forces reappeared in the vicinity from time to time.

[[Category:Missouri Cities and Towns]]

[[Category:Missouri Cities and Towns]]