From the Biltz Civil War Diary, July 14, 1861

From the Civil War diary of Pastor Franz Julius Biltz, Saint Paul Lutheran Church, Cook’s Store (Concordia), Lafayette County, Missouri, July 1861:

14. Our Home Guard order to Georgetown, returned
next day-- Meth[odist] church demol[ished].

Georgetown is an unincorporated community just north of Sedalia in Pettis County, Missouri, and southeast of Lafayette County, where Biltz’s congregation was located. Identification of the Methodist church to which Biltz referred has not been determined.