Post War
Following the war, Frost became a farmer on his land near St. Louis. His second wife died in the early 1870s and Frost later married a third time, this time to a young widow with two children. The couple had two children of their own.
General Frost spend much of his time in his later years simultaneously explaining: to Unionists that in May 1861 he had not be engaged in pro-Confederate plotting, and to ex-Confederates that he had not deserted from the Confederate Army in 1863. While Frost wrote many post-war articles attempting to explain his contradictory actions during the civil war, his memoirs do not address the Civil War period.
At the age of 77, Daniel M. Frost died at his home in Hazelwood, Missouri. He is interred at Calvary Cemetery, section 18.
General Frost was memorialized by Saint Louis University which named its main campus Frost Campus in honor of the General at the request of his daughter Mrs. Harriet Frost Fordyce, who contributed $1,000,000 to the University in 1962. Ironically, part of the Frost Campus covers the former "Camp Jackson" militia encampment site.
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