Walter E. Busch

Walter E. Busch, a native St. Louisan, is the retired director of the Missouri State Parks -Iron Mountain Management Unit consisting of Battle of Pilot Knob State Historic Site, Elephant Rocks State Park and Dillard Mill State Historic Site and retired Assistant Professor of History and Criminal Justice for Mineral Area College. As of 2018, he is the Civil War Monuments Chairman for the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War and a Past Department Commander of the Missouri Dept. of the SUVCW. Besides this book, he has written Fort Davidson and the Battle of Pilot Knob: Missouri’s Alamo, and edited General Sterling Price's Great Missouri Raid: The Missouri Democrat Articles Sept. 14, 1864 to Jan. 15, 1865. He currently edits articles and websites for the Missouri SUVCW www.suvcwmo.org ; Friends of Fort Davidson www.battleofpilotknob.org ; and grantcamp.org. He is also the editor of the Missouri Sons of Union Veterans Quarterly Newsletter "The Unionist" available on-line.