The story of a border city during the Civil War

by Galusha Anderson

INDEX

• Abolitionists, denounced, [48];
  • alleged atrocious conduct of, [54];
  • hated, [161];
  • two extraordinary, [170]–176;
  • as viewed by Southerners, [252].
• Alabama, Governor of, urges secession, [23], [33].
• Alton, Illinois, arms landed at, [79];
  • murder of Lovejoy at, [80];
  • fugitives from panic in Saint Louis flee to, [111].
• Anderson, Reverend Galusha, pastor of Second Baptist Church, [122], [166];
  • character of his church, [122];
  • prays for president, [124]–126;
  • outraged by sight of rebel flag, [126];
  • his congregation sings America, [130];
  • preaches against secession, [127]–130;
  • attempted attack upon, [131];
  • prints sermon in Missouri Republican, [133];
  • marriage of, [131];
  • visits Cincinnati, [131];
  • left by secession parishioners, [133]–134;
  • attempt to force resignation of, [136];
  • preaches first Union sermon in Saint Louis, [137];
  • preaches so-called “politics,” [139];
  • his association with Christian secessionists, [141];
  • one of his deacons won to the Union, [148]–149;
  • his interview with artist of “The Slave Mart,” [156]–157;
  • denounced by Presbyterian editor, [166];
  • his life threatened, [167]–168;
  • in Washington’s Birthday Parade, [249];
  • joins Home Guards, [275];
  • preaches to soldiers, [301];
  • works in hospitals, [302];
  • helps conscience-stricken Quaker soldier, [303];
  • cares for religious work in Fifth Street Hospital, [304]–307;
  • examines teachers for negro schools, [334]–335;
  • preaches confidence in 1864, [339].
• Anderson, guerilla leader, [325].
• Anderson, Confederate prisoner, [302].
• Anderson, Reverend Richard, negro pastor, [176];
  • early life of, [12];
  • attitude toward free negro exclusion bill, [13];
  • pleads for slave mother, [177]–178.
• Anderson, Reverend S. J. P., mistaken assault upon, [134]–135;
  • preaches on “Ultimatum of the South,” [121], [135].
• Army and Brigade Hospitals, [288].
• Army, Union, Missouri troops in, [62];
  • of the Frontier, [274].
• Arsenal in Saint Louis, [23], [82], [86];
  • arms at, [21];
  • situation of, [63];
  • fight for, [63]–85;
  • description of, [63];
  • United States troops in, [64];
  • threatened attack on, [69];
  • fortifying of, [69], [73];
  • two heads to, [70];
  • rumors about, [74];
  • plots against, [76], [77], [90];
  • arms sent from, [77]–80;
  • defense of, by Missourians, [83];
  • prisoners from Camp Jackson at, [99]–102;
  • munitions from Camp Jackson removed to, [104];
  • “J. C. Swan” brought to, [118];
  • draped in black for General Lyon, [212].
• Baptist Missionary Societies, hold meetings in Saint Louis, [365];
  • division among, [365].
• Bast, George Y., casts only vote for secession in convention of 1861, [58].
• Bates, Edward, President Lincoln’s Attorney-General, [4];
  • frees his slave, Richard Anderson, [12].
• Baton Rouge, arms stolen from, [104], [118].
• Battles, Boonville, [202], [288];
  • Carthage, [288];
  • Chickamauga, [315];
  • Davidson, Fort, [328];
  • Donelson, Fort, [296];
  • Dug Spring, [288];
  • Fair Oaks, [124];
  • Independence, [273];
  • Lexington, [219];
  • Pea Ridge, [244];
  • Pittsburg Landing, [291];
  • Wilson’s Creek, [211], [288].
• Beauregard, General P. G. T., attack of, on Fort Sumter, [74];
  • street in Camp Jackson named for, [104].
• Bell, Major William H., at Arsenal, [66], [67], [94];
  • pledges himself to General Frost, [66];
  • ordered to N. Y., [66];
  • resigns, [67].
• Belle Fontaine, the Cemetery, [4];
  • the Fort, headquarters of Department of Upper Louisiana, [7];
  • Sac and Fox Indians sell land around, [7].
• Benton, Thomas H., most distinguished man in Missouri, [4];
  • funeral of, [4];
  • called “The Magisterial,” [4];
  • United States Senator, [5];
  • political speeches of, [5];
  • opposed to nomination of John C. Fremont, [5].
• Bitterness of feeling in Saint Louis during the war, [159]–169.
• Blair, Frank P., [4], [92];
  • member of Congress and friend to Lyon, [69];
  • forms Home Guard, [69];
  • visits President Buchanan, [70];
  • appeals to Secretary of War in Lyon’s behalf, [73];
  • in attack on Camp Jackson, [96];
  • confers with Committee of Safety, [93];
  • rumor of his intended attack on the state capital, [104];
  • life of, threatened, [163]–165;
  • proscribed, [169];
  • in conference with General Lyon and Governor Jackson, [199]–201;
  • opposes Fremont, [222];
  • becomes conservative, [279].
• Blunt, General, drives guerrillas from Missouri, [273].
• Bogie, Mr., candidate for Congress, [5].
• Boonville, battle of, [202], [203], [288];
  • panic at, [322].
• Border slave states, ignored by seceding states, [60];
  • kept in Union by Missouri’s loyalty, [62].
• Bowen, Colonel, of militia, on Kansas border, [88];
  • reports to General Frost at Saint Louis, [89].
• Breckinridge, Judge S. M., [45].
• Broadhead, James O, lawyer, [4];
  • member of Convention of 1861, [44];
  • member of Committee of Safety, [92];
  • attendant at Second Baptist Church, [122].
• Brotherton, Marshal, deacon, slaveholder, emancipator, [170]–173.
• Buchanan, President James, [65], [68], [176];
  • inactivity of, [32], [34]–36, [124];
  • contrast to President Jackson, [35];
  • his position repudiated by loyalists, [35];
  • sends troops to Saint Louis, [64];
  • refuses Captain Lyon supreme command of the Arsenal at Saint Louis, [70];
  • prayed for, [124]–125.
• Buckner, General Simon B., surrenders Fort Donelson, [246].
• Bushwhackers in Missouri, [324];
  • murders by, [325].
• Butler, General Benjamin F., [262], [285].
• Cairo, fugitives from panic flee to, [111];
  • military encampment at, [209];
  • General Grant at, [223];
  • Sanitary Commission at, [296];
  • General Smith at, with relief for Missouri, [326].
• Calhoun, John C., disciples of, in Convention of 1861, [50]–51.
• Cameron, Simon, President Lincoln’s Secretary of War, [84], [88];
  • visits Fremont, [222].
• Camp Jackson, [86]–105, [106], [119], [126], [159], [169], [181], [198], [203];
  • for whom named, [89];
  • fear of, [90]–91;
  • number of men at, [91];
  • attack upon, [95]–98;
  • prisoners from, [97]–99;
  • results from capture of, [99]–103;
  • character of, [104]–105;
  • streets in, [104].
• Canby, General E. R. S., calls for soldiers, [320].
• Carthage, battle of, [288].
• Cavender, Mr., gives time to Home for Refugees, [293].
• Chamber of Commerce, division of, [153]–154.
• “Charcoals and Claybanks,” [276]–287, [341], [342];
  • radical and conservative Unionists, [277]–278;
  • differences among, [278];
  • extreme policy of Charcoals, [280]–282;
  • Charcoals oppose General Schofield and Governor Gamble, [283]–284;
  • complain to War Department, [285];
  • Claybanks favor and oppose General Schofield, [287].
• Chicago Convention nominates Abraham Lincoln, [54]–55.
• Chickamauga, battle of, [315].
• Chouteau, Colonel, house of, back from river, [7].
• Christian secessionists, [140]–141.
• Church, see “Pulpit,” “Baptist,” “Presbyterian.”
• City General Hospital, [290].
• City Hospital, [288].
• “City of Alton,” steamer, engaged to carry arms, [77]–80.
• “City of Louisiana,” fitted as a hospital, [297].
• Civil government in Saint Louis inaugurated, [7].
• “Claybanks,” see “Charcoals and Claybanks.”
• Clayton, Honorable A. M., of Alabama, [119].
• Clubs, political, [19]–22;
  • see “Wide-Awakes” and “Minute Men.”
• Colonization Society, [175].
• Columbus, Kentucky, fugitives from panic flee to, [111];
  • rebels at, plan to seize Paducah, [223];
  • Union army there first, [245].
• Committee of Safety, [92]–93.
• Committee on Federal Relations, of Convention of 1861, [53], [49];
  • reports against secession, [57].
• Conant, A. J., unveils Lincoln’s portrait, [366].
• Conant, Major, in conference with Lyon and Jackson, [199].
• Confederacy, Southern, [71], [82], [87], [105], [119], [147];
  • formed, [62];
  • Congress of, votes to admit Missouri, [232];
  • authorizes Jefferson Davis to raise troops in Missouri, [232].
• Confiscation, of war material in Saint Louis, [116];
  • of the “J. C. Swan,” [118];
  • of slaves, [218];
  • by General Curtis, [280].
• Constitution of Missouri, new, of 1865, [349], [356];
  • ratified at polls, [357];
  • portion of, declared unconstitutional, [359].
• Convention of Missouri of 1861, how created, [41]–42;
  • met in Jefferson City, [42]–43;
  • adjourned to Saint Louis, [45];
  • its composition, [46]–48;
  • pro-slavery in sentiment, [48];
  • divided on how to preserve slavery, [49];
  • conditional and unconditional unionists in, [50]–52;
  • organization of, [53];
  • speech in, by Orr, [54];
  • action of, on Georgia’s Ordinance of Secession, [55];
  • opposed by legislature, [56];
  • sovereign in Missouri, [57], [231];
  • voted down secession, [58];
  • adjourned to meet on call of Committee, [58];
  • came together in July, [227];
  • established provisional state government, [228];
  • sustained by Halleck, [235];
  • required oath of allegiance, [235].
• Convention, Radical, of 1865, [342]–359;
  • calling of, [342];
  • composition of, [343]–344;
  • met in Mercantile Library Hall, [343];
  • a German as president of, [344];
  • passed Emancipation Ordinance, [345]–346;
  • made drastic requirements for the franchise, [349]–352;
  • adopted “Oath of Loyalty,” [351]–353;
  • amended the constitution, [349]–352, [360]–361;
  • rejoicing in, over Lee’s surrender, [360];
  • adjourned sine die, April 10, [361].
• Cooper, William, commissioner from Alabama, [23].
• Crum, Mr., candidate for Congress, [5].
• Currency, [268]–270;
  • postage-stamps used as, [269];
  • “postage currency,” [269];
  • “fractional currency,” [269];
  • furs used as, [8].
• Curtis, General Samuel R., [274], [280];
  • drives Price from Missouri, [244];
  • wins victory at Pea Ridge, [244];
  • in command at Saint Louis, [274];
  • favors Charcoals, [280];
  • confiscations by, [280];
  • in collision with governor, [281];
  • removal of, [282], [283].
• Davidson, Fort, battle of, [328].
• Davis, Jefferson, his letter to Governor Jackson, [87];
  • cannon solicited from, [88], [94];
  • street in Camp Jackson named for, [104];
  • cannon sent by, to Saint Louis, [105];
  • cheers for, [191];
  • visited by Governor Jackson, [229];
  • authorized to raise troops in Missouri, [232];
  • approves act admitting Missouri to Confederacy, [233].
• Decisions for and against the Union, [146]–158;
  • for the Union, [146]–149.
• Democrats, [20];
  • on Saint Louis school board, [336].
• Divisions, caused by the war, [146]–158;
  • in church, [151]–153;
  • in Chamber of Commerce, [153]–154;
  • between friends, [149]–151, [154].
• Dix, Dorothea L., superintendent of nurses, [288];
  • appoints Mr. Yeatman her agent in Saint Louis, [294].
• Donelson, Fort, capture of, [246];
  • Sanitary Commission at, [296].
• Douglas, Stephen A., his debates with Lincoln, [11];
  • champion of squatter sovereignty, [17], [20].
• Drake, Charles D., advocate of Oath of Loyalty, “Draconian Oath,” [355];
  • calls for cheers for Lee’s surrender, [360].
• Dryden, John, altered quotation from, [148].
• Dug Spring, battle of, [288].
• Duke, Basil Wilson, leader of Minute Men, police commissioner, [72].
• Eliot, Reverend William G., D.D., [4], [301];
  • Unitarian, unionist, [121];
  • of the Sanitary Commission, [289];
  • description of, [290];
  • offers prayer of thanksgiving in Convention of 1865, [345]–346.
• Emancipation, Proclamation of, by President Lincoln, [149];
  • by individual slave owners, [170]–176;
  • by General Halleck, [241];
  • Ordinance passed by Missouri Convention of 1865, [345], [356];
  • celebrated at Saint Louis and Jefferson City, [347]–348.
• Engler, Mr., banished because of resistance to assessments, [243].
• Everett, Edward, delivers oration on Washington, in Saint Louis, [271], [272].
• Ewing, General, [327]–330;
  • holds Pilot Knob, [327];
  • checks Price at Fort Davidson, [328];
  • retreats to the Meramec, [329];
  • holds Harrison Station, [329].
• Fair, Mississippi Valley Sanitary, held by Western Sanitary Commission, [309]–314;
  • participants in, [309]–310;
  • departments of, [311]–312;
  • Germans in, [311]–312;
  • wide-spread response to appeals for, [310];
  • success of, [313];
  • a boon to Saint Louis, [314].
• Federal Relations, committee on in convention of 1861, [49], [53], [57].
• Filley, Oliver D., mayor of Saint Louis, a friend to Lyon, [69];
  • member of Committee of Safety, [92].
• Flags, absence of, in 1861, [23], [38], [131], [362];
  • rebel, in street, [38]–39, [72], [126],
    • hauled down, [100],
    • suppressed by Halleck, [237];
  • display of Stars and Stripes, [146]–147, [159], [248];
  • on Court-House, [29];
  • lowered at Sumter, [75];
  • at the Fair, [313].
• Fletcher, Governor T. C., [346];
  • election of, [341];
  • proclaims Emancipation Ordinance, [348];
  • proclaims Revised Constitution, [357];
  • proclaims end of armed conflict, [368].
• Floyd, John Buchanan, of Virginia, Secretary of War, sends arms south, [34].
• Foote, Commodore Andrew Hull, at Fort Henry, [245];
  • at Fort Donelson, [246].
• Fort Sumter, fall of, [74], [75];
  • effect of, in Saint Louis, [75].
• Foster, Mr., delegate to convention of 1861, [56].
• Freedmen’s Relief Society, organized, [294].
• Fremont, John C., offered Republican nomination for President, [5];
  • Major-General, [206];
  • his fleet on the Mississippi, [208];
  • deceived at New Madrid, [209];
  • at Cairo, [209], [230];
  • fails to support Lyon, [208]–209, [212]–213;
  • praises Lyon, [213];
  • inefficiency of, [212]–213, [219], [223];
  • declares martial law in Saint Louis, [213],
    • in Missouri, [217];
  • frees slaves of the disloyal, [217];
  • is reproved by Lincoln, [217]–218;
  • fails to reënforce Mulligan, [219];
  • fortifies Saint Louis, [220];
  • leaves for Jefferson City, [221];
  • his campaign in Missouri, [221];
  • appoints officers and approves bills improperly, [223];
  • occupies Springfield, [221];
  • at Jefferson City, [223];
  • reproved by Secretary of War, [222], [223];
  • removal of, [224];
  • confidence in, shown by Germans, [225];
  • his patriotism, [225];
  • favored Charcoals, [279];
  • aids hospitals, [288];
  • fits up hospital cars, [296].
• Frost, General Daniel M., [66], [105];
  • sketch of life of, [87];
  • his plans for seizing Saint Louis, [87]–90;
  • his letter to Lyon, [94];
  • disloyal record of, [94];
  • a spy, [95];
  • in command of all Missouri militia, [88];
  • forms camp at west of city, [89];
  • learns of Lyon’s plans, [94];
  • joins rebel army, [94];
  • surrenders Camp Jackson, [95].
• Fugitive Slave Law, execution of, demanded, [52];
  • a dead letter, [181].
• Fur trade, chief trade in Saint Louis, early part of nineteenth century, [8].
• Gallaher, Reverend H. M., attacked, while in pulpit of author, [131].
• Gamble, Honorable Hamilton R., chairman of Committee on Federal Relations, [49], [50], [53];
  • chosen provisional governor of Missouri, [228];
  • issues proclamation, [228]–229;
  • calls for state troops, [229];
  • takes action against guerrillas, [273].
• Georgia, Ordinance of Secession of, [55];
  • commissioner from, visits Missouri officials, [53]–56.
• Germans in Saint Louis, in 1860, [1];
  • Republicans, [16];
  • enter volunteer service, [81];
  • three fourths of volunteer force, [85];
  • soldiers, [97], [98];
  • at attack on Camp Jackson, [97];
  • in the Home Guards, [106];
  • rumor of intended rising of, [112];
  • fear attack by Americans, [113];
  • rumor of intended advance of, on Jefferson City, [104];
  • attack on, [106]–107;
  • bitterness against, [160];
  • fired on, [204];
  • at the Fair, [311].
• Giddings, Honorable J. R., of Connecticut Western Reserve, his address on slavery, [27], [28];
  • his opposition to slavery, [27].
• Glenn, Honorable Luther J., commissioner from Georgia, visits Missouri convention of 1861, [53]–56.
• Glover, Samuel T., lawyer, [4];
  • member of Committee of Safety, [92];
  • his writ of replevin, [93].
• Grant, General Ulysses S., at Saint Louis, [100];
  • at Cairo, [209], [223];
  • at Paducah, [223];
  • organizes an army, above Columbus, [245];
  • at Fort Henry, [245];
  • at Fort Donelson, [246]–247;
  • on the Mississippi, [251];
  • at Vicksburg, [298];
  • sustains Western Sanitary Commission, [295];
  • in Virginia, [320], [338], [340], [360];
  • accuses Rosecrans, [321];
  • at Appomattox, [360], [361].
• Greely, C. S., Esquire, of the Sanitary Commission, [289].
• Greely and Gale, loyal firm, name of, used as a blind, [104].
• Guerrillas, [240], [274]–275, [321]–324;
  • cause much damage, [272];
  • action against, [273];
  • driven from Missouri, [273]–274;
  • invade Missouri from the South and Illinois, [320];
  • plunder Union men, [324].
• Hagner, Major Peter V., description of, [67], [72];
  • in command at arsenal, [67];
  • claims to outrank Lyon, [68];
  • refuses to fortify arsenal, [69];
  • in command of ordnance, [70].
• Hall, Mr., of Randolph County, member of Convention of 1861, [44].
• Hall, Willard P., provisional Lieutenant-Governor of Missouri, [228].
• Halleck, General Henry W., seizes secession rendezvous, [168];
  • in command in Missouri, [234]–250;
  • protects railroads, [239]–240;
  • puts slaves to work for the government, [239]–241;
  • assesses rich rebels, [242]–243;
  • character of, [234];
  • supports convention, [235];
  • enforces requirement of oath of allegiance, [236], [352];
  • suppresses display of rebel flag, [237];
  • orders spies shot, [238];
  • banishes spies, [238];
  • censors newspapers, [238];
  • feeds refugees, [242]–244;
  • leaves Saint Louis, [250], [272];
  • favors Claybanks and Charcoals, [279].
• Hammer, Colonel, [208].
• Hancock, Daniel J., deacon of Second Baptist Church, [123].
• Hancock, General Winfield S., anecdote of, [123].
• Hardee, General William J., [207].
• Harding, General, quartermaster general, sent by Governor Jackson to procure munitions, [90].
• Harney, General William Selby, orders troops away from subtreasury, [64];
  • sketch of life of, [67];
  • refuses chief command to Lyon, [68];
  • sustained by General Scott and President Buchanan, [70];
  • appoints Lyon in command at the arsenal, [72];
  • called to Washington, [73];
  • characterizes the militia bill as a secession measure, [103];
  • returns to Saint Louis, [108];
  • tries to quiet panic, [108]–109;
  • proclamation of, [108], [115];
  • seizes arms, [116]–117;
  • his agreement with Price, [117];
  • removal of, [118];
  • succeeded by Lyon, [118], [198].
• Harper, Captain, extraordinary abolitionist, [174]–176.
• Henderson, Honorable John B., chairman of committee, reports against prayer of Georgia to secede, [55].
• Henry, Fort, capture of, [245].
• Home Guards, [62], [72], [73], [200], [274];
  • “Wide-Awakes” transformed into, [69];
  • plans to secure arms for, [69];
  • control of, in hands of Governor Jackson, [71], [72];
  • attack upon, [106];
  • rumor of intended attack by, [108]–114;
  • declared enemies to the Confederacy, [233];
  • in conflict with State Guards, [240];
  • defend Saint Louis, [327].
• “Homes,” for soldiers, [292], [296], [300];
  • for refugees, [293], [295], [261];
  • for orphans, [314];
  • number of people cared for in, [300].
• Hospitals, [288]–308;
  • great demand for, [291];
  • fifteen, [291];
  • New House of Refuge, [288];
  • City Hospital, [288];
  • City General, [290];
  • cars fitted as, by General Fremont, [296];
  • floating, [297];
  • flying, [297];
  • Southerners in, [302];
  • incidents in, [301]–308;
  • uplifting influence of, on Saint Louis, [308].
• How, John, member of Union Safety Committee, [69], [92], [93];
  • defeat of, for mayor, [71].
• Howell, Mr., conditional unionist delegate to Convention of 1861, [52].
• Hunter, General David, succeeds Fremont, [225]–226, [234].
• Independence, battle of, [273].
• Ironton, lead seized at, by Lyon, [118].
• Jackson, Governor Claiborn F., [44], [66], [71], [77], [79], [89], [94], [103], [105], [119], [198];
  • sympathizes with secession, [23], [33];
  • favors convention, [41]–42;
  • receives Commissioner Glenn, [54];
  • rumor of his intention to seize arsenal, [77];
  • appoints police commissioners, [72];
  • refuses troops, [84], [88];
  • plants batteries, [86];
  • in correspondence with Confederacy, [87]–88;
  • summons special session of legislature, [88];
  • confers with Frost on seizure of Saint Louis, [87]–88;
  • buys munitions, [90];
  • removes war material from Jefferson City, [104];
  • a fugitive, [167], [227], [229];
  • in conference with Lyon, [198]–202;
  • visits Jefferson Davis at Richmond, [229];
  • returns and issues proclamation, [231].
• Jackson, James, contraband, tries to learn to read, [265]–266.
• Jefferson Barracks, hospital at, [291];
  • receives and treats eleven thousand soldiers, [292].
• Jefferson City, [70], [77], [88], [201], [346], [347];
  • Convention leaves, [43], [45], [60];
  • panic at, [102]–104;
  • evacuated by Jackson, [201];
  • occupied by Lyon, [202];
  • occupied by Brigadier-General U. S. Grant, [220];
  • Fremont at, [221]–223;
  • troops at, overestimated, [330];
  • emancipation celebrated at, [348].
• Jefferson, Thomas, purchase of Louisiana by, [6].
• “John Brown’s Body,” sung by Indiana troops, [245];
  • by legislature, [348];
  • over Grant’s last victory, [362].
• Johnson, Reverend G. J., D.D., [161], [162].
• Johnson, J. B., M.D., of Sanitary Commission, [289].
• Kansas, War, [11];
  • invasion of, [24];
  • Lyon in, [68];
  • troops from, pursue Price, [330].
• Kelly, Captain, at Camp Jackson, [90], [91].
• Kelton, J. C., Fremont’s assistant adjutant-general, [208].
• Knights of the Golden Circle, [317], [338];
  • its numbers and wide influence, [317];
  • checked by Rosecrans, [318];
  • expected rising of, [331].
• Krekel, Arnold, president of Convention of 1865, [344].
• Laclede, Pierre Ligueste, early trader, [6];
  • digs first cellar, [7], [8].
• Ladies’ Union Aid Society, [296];
  • formation and composition of, [293];
  • receives donation from Western Sanitary Commission, [314].
• Lafayette, Marquis de, entertained in Saint Louis, 1825, [7].
• Lane, General, of Kansas, [284].
• Lawyers, distinguished, before the war, [4].
• Lead, seizure of, [118];
  • exportation of, [118]–119.
• Lee, General R. E., surrender of, rejoicing over, [360], [361].
• Legislature, votes to expel free negroes, [11];
  • creates Convention, [41], [42];
  • opposes Convention, [56];
  • attempts to carry Missouri into the Confederacy, [70], [71];
  • special session of, [88];
  • after capture of Camp Jackson, [103];
  • fears attack, [104];
  • puts Governor Jackson in absolute control of Saint Louis, [103];
  • passes militia bill, [103];
  • fugitive, [227], [232];
  • passes secession ordinance, [231]–232.
• Lexington, Missouri, battle of, [219].
• Lieutenant-Governor, the unseated and fugitive secession, [227];
  • issues proclamation at New Madrid, [229];
  • the provisional, Willard P. Hall, [228].
• Lincoln, Abraham, [4], [19], [32], [51], [62], [71], [82], [84], [94], [124], [149], [299], [318], [359], [360];
  • his debates with Douglas, [11];
  • his declaration of 1858, [11];
  • misrepresentation of, [15];
  • election of, [18], [51], [340], [341];
  • speaks in Philadelphia, [37];
  • inauguration of, [37], [38];
  • nominated for president, [55], [338];
  • his call for troops, [75];
  • his call for troops denounced, [84];
  • anecdote of, [162];
  • policy of, toward Fremont, [217];
  • recalls Fremont’s proclamation, [218];
  • letter of, to Schofield, [282];
  • allays strife, [285];
  • effects of his death, [362]–365, [366];
  • portrait of, [366].
• Lindell’s Grove, site of Camp Jackson, [89], [90], [165].
• Linton, Doctor, member of Convention of 1861, [43];
  • in Convention of 1865; opposes Oath of Loyalty, [355].
• Lovejoy, Elijah Parish, death of, at Alton, [80].
• Lyon, Nathaniel, sketch of the life of, [66]–68;
  • commissioned captain, [67], [68];
  • claim of, to supreme command, at arsenal, denied, [68];
  • visits the “Wide-Awakes,” [69];
  • plans of, for arsenal, [69], [72];
  • patrols vicinity of arsenal, [73];
  • in command of troops, [70];
  • in full command, [72], [73];
  • plants batteries on bluffs, [73];
  • empowered to raise and arm troops, [73];
  • fortifies arsenal, [73];
  • ability in defending arsenal, [76];
  • dealings of, with Governor Yates of Illinois, [76];
  • ruse of, to defend arsenal, [78];
  • enrolls Missouri troops, [81], [83];
  • refuses to remove troops, [84], [85];
  • occupies bluffs, [88];
  • declares governor in correspondence with Confederacy, [87];
  • visits Camp Jackson in disguise, [92];
  • meets with Committee of Safety, [92]–93;
  • captures Camp Jackson, [95];
  • removes munitions from Camp Jackson to the Arsenal, [104];
  • made Brigadier-General, [118];
  • seizes “J. C. Swan” and lead, [118];
  • success of, [119];
  • confers with Price and Jackson, [198]–201;
  • campaign of, [201];
  • at Boonville, [202]–203;
  • occupies Springfield, [203], [207];
  • occupies Jefferson City, [202];
  • pleads for troops, [207], [208];
  • moves against Price and McCulloch, [209]–210;
  • his letter to Fremont, [210];
  • praised by Snead, [211];
  • killed in battle of Wilson’s Creek, [211];
  • his army retreats to Rolla, [211];
  • surprised Price and McCulloch at Wilson’s Creek, [211];
  • body borne through Saint Louis, [212].
• McClellan, General George B., [298];
  • nominated for president, [338].
• McCulloch, General Ben, [203], [207], [209];
  • helps win battle of Wilson’s Creek, [211];
  • with Price occupies Springfield, [211];
  • defeated at Pea Ridge, [244].
• McDowell, Dr., Medical College of, made a military prison, [188]–189.
• McKinstry, Major J., suppresses disloyal papers, [214];
  • reprimands editor of Christian Advocate, [215];
  • requires special permits to pass lines, [215].
• McNeil, Colonel, commandant of Saint Louis, [206].
• McPherson, William M., [122], [123].
• Marmaduke, marches towards Missouri, [323].
• Marshall, John, his interpretation of the Constitution, [51].
• Marshall, Honorable Thomas, lectures of, on Henry Clay, and the Revolution, [25], [26];
  • downfall of, [27].
• Martial law, proclaimed in Saint Louis and Saint Louis County, [213];
  • in the State, [217];
  • passes required to leave the city, [215];
  • deprecated by the loyal and disloyal, [216]–217.
• Massachusetts, [26], [127], [295], [299].
• Meetings for prayer, [137]–138.
• Mercantile Library Hall, [116], [117], [183];
  • address in, by Honorable J. R. Giddings, [27];
  • Convention of 1861, meets in, [44], [45];
  • Convention of 1865 meets in, [343].
• Militia, of Missouri, to be called out by governor, [63];
  • called to drill, May 2, 1861, [88];
  • bill for equipping, [103];
  • regiment of, mutinies, [284].
• Minute Men, Democratic political club, [20];
  • drilled in military tactics, [21];
  • armed, [22];
  • under control of Governor Jackson, [71], [72];
  • refuse to lay down arms, [81];
  • join General Frost, [89].
• Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair, of 1864, [309]–314;
  • see “Fair.”
• Missouri Historical Society, [6].
• Missouri Republican, prints sermon on “Duty of Obedience to Established Government,” [133];
  • its Union and Secession editors 143–144.
• Mitchell, Captain, of “City of Alton,” [79].
• Mulligan, surrender of, at Lexington, [219], [220].
• Napoleon, sells Louisiana, [6].
• Negroes in Saint Louis, slaves, [1], [9];
  • bill to exclude free, [11]–14;
  • a pastor of, [12]–13;
  • at the Fair, [313];
  • schools for, [333]–337;
  • celebrate passing of Emancipation Ordinance, [347];
  • own taxable property, [333].
• Nelson, Reverend Henry A., [4];
  • Presbyterian Unionist, [121].
• Neosho, guerrillas near, [323].
• New House of Refuge Hospital, [288].
• New Orleans, slave market, [172], [177], [182].
• Newspapers, see “Press.”
• Noble, Thomas S., sketch of life of, [155]–157;
  • paints “The Slave Mart,” [156];
  • paints “John Brown going to Execution,” [157].
• Nurses, qualifications of, for Saint Louis hospitals, [294];
  • efficiency of, [305].
• Oath, to sustain the constitution of United States and Missouri, by Convention of 1861, [53];
  • by members of Camp Jackson, [89];
  • of fealty to Missouri asserted supreme, [103];
  • of allegiance, taken by prisoners, [102], [196];
  • in prayer-meeting, [137]–138;
  • demanded by Halleck, [235]–236;
  • keeps many from voting, [341];
  • “of Loyalty,” [351];
  • severity of, [354]–356;
  • distress resulting from, [357]–359;
  • “Test Oath,” [353];
  • called “Draconian,” [355];
  • set aside by Supreme Court, [359].
• Oliver, Mordecai, Secretary of State of Missouri, [228].
• Order of American Knights, [317], [331].
• Order of the Star, [317];
  • see “Knights of the Golden Circle.”
• Ordinance of Emancipation, [345]–349.
• Orr, Honorable Sample, speech in Convention of 1861, [54].
• Paducah, occupied by Grant, [223];
  • Sanitary Commission at, [296].
• Panic, in Saint Louis after capture of Camp Jackson, [101]–102;
  • in Jefferson City, [103]–104;
  • of May 12, [107]–115;
  • at Boonville, [322].
• Partridge, George, Esquire, of Sanitary Commission, [289].
• Pierce, President Franklin, [68].
• Pike, General Albert, [244].
• Pillow, General Gideon J., [207], [208], [229], [230].
• Pilot Knob, Confederate troops near, [326];
  • General Ewing at, [327].
• Planters’ Hotel, [163], [164];
  • conference at, [199]–202.
• Plot against the Union, [315]–332;
  • clues of, followed up, [316];
  • object and character of, [317];
  • names of organization in, [317];
  • places and leaders in, [317];
  • incited by press, [319];
  • rumors of, get abroad, [320];
  • movements by guerrillas, a part of, [321]–325;
  • helped by bushwhackers, [324]–326;
  • General Price in, [326]–331;
  • failure of, [331].
• Police of Saint Louis, control of, in hands of Governor Jackson, [71], [72];
  • commissioners of, demand removal of troops, [84];
  • checks rioting, [102].
• Pope, Major-General John, [212], [368].
• Post, Reverend Truman M., [4], [121], [301].
• Praying for the President, [124]–126.
• Preachers, distinguished, before the war, [4].
• Preaching, against disunion, [127]–134, [136], [139]–140, [149], [166];
  • preaching “politics,” [139];
  • to soldiers, [301];
  • of good cheer, [338]–340.
• Presbyterians, minister of, preaches on “The Ultimatum of the South,” [121];
  • General Convention of, in Saint Louis, [366];
  • debate in Convention over secession of Synod, [367]–368.
• Press, the, attitude and influence of, [142]–145;
  • censored by Halleck, [238];
  • The Missouri Republican, [12], [116], [133], [143]–144,
    • publishes sermon on “Obedience to Government,” [132];
  • Harper’s Weekly, [15];
  • The Missouri Democrat, [143],
    • prints Te Deum extra, [247];
  • Evening News suppressed for criticizing Fremont, [219]–220;
  • War Bulletin and Missourian suppressed, [214];
  • Christian Advocate threatened with suppression, [215];
  • Metropolitan Record, circulation of, prohibited in Missouri, [319].
• Price, Sterling, president of convention of 1861, [53], [61];
  • a Confederate general, [61], [117], [191], [234];
  • campaigns of, [201]–203, [226], [326]–332;
  • driven from Missouri, [203], [240], [244], [330];
  • invades Missouri, [207], [209], [239]–240, [327];
  • rumor of intended invasion of, [322]–323;
  • in conference with Lyon, [198]–201;
  • victorious at Wilson’s Creek, [211];
  • occupies Springfield, [211];
  • defeated at Pea Ridge, [244];
  • recognizes guerrilla Anderson, [325];
  • checked at Fort Davidson, [328];
  • fails to attack Saint Louis and Jefferson City, [329]–330;
  • destroys much property, [331]–332;
  • failure of his last campaign, [331]–332.
• Prisoners, from Camp Jackson, [97]–99,
  • • refuse food at Arsenal, [99];
  • paroled, [102];
  • Confederate, [191]–196;
  • anecdotes concerning, [189]–197;
  • a Baptist preacher a prisoner, [191]–194;
  • soldiers get Thanksgiving dinner meant for, [195];
  • secession minister a prisoner, [196];
  • at Boonville, [202].
• Prisons, military, [188]–197;
  • character of, [189];
  • Dr. McDowell’s Medical College used as, [188];
  • slave-pen used as, [193].
• Pritchard, Colonel, [89].
• Proclamations, of General Harney, [108], [110], [115];
  • Emancipation, of Lincoln, [149];
  • of General Fremont, [217];
  • of secession, Lieutenant-Governor, [229];
  • of General Thompson, [230];
  • of Governor Jackson, [231];
  • of General Price, [233];
  • of General Halleck, [236], [239];
  • assessing rich rebels, [242],
  • freeing slaves, [241];
  • of Governor Gamble, [228]–229;
  • of General Schofield, [284];
  • of Emancipation by Governor Fletcher, [348];
  • of the Revised Constitution, [357];
  • declaring end of the war, [368].
• Protestants admitted to Spanish Saint Louis only by pass, [9].
• Provisional Government of Missouri, [228].
• Pulpit, [120]–142;
  • prudentially silent, [120]–121;
  • one voice for secession, [121], [135];
  • supported by loyal laymen, [122]–126;
  • soldiers in the congregation, [123]–124.
• Quaker conscience, [303].
• Quantrel, [273], [322];
  • invades Kansas, [284].
• Quinby, Major-General, [249]–250.
• Quincy, fugitives from panic flee to, [111].
• Ramsay, Charles G., editor Evening News, imprisoned, [219]–220.
• Rawlings, United States Marshal, seizes munitions of war, [116].
• “R. C. Wood,” floating hospital, [297].
• Refugees, [251]–267;
  • follow army of Fremont, [226];
  • fed by private charity and army rations, [242],
    • and by enforced assessments, [243]–244;
  • anecdotes of, [253]–267;
  • classes of, [252]–259;
  • ignorance of, [255]–260;
  • numbers of, [261];
  • freedmen, [262]–267;
  • homes for, [261], [293], [295];
  • white, [300];
  • from Price’s invasion, [332].
• Republicans, [20];
  • party of, success of, the doom of slavery, [15];
  • appealed to by Carl Schurz, [17];
  • success of, in 1860, [18].
• Rioting, after the capture of Camp Jackson, [101]–102, [106]–107;
  • in attack on church, [131]–132;
  • in attack on minister, [135];
  • from attack on German troops, [204]–205.
• Robinson, Lieutenant, [64].
• Rolla, Missouri, Lyon’s army falls back to, [211];
  • guerrillas near, [322];
  • Ewing retreats to, [329];
  • wounded hero at, [307].
• Rosecrans, General W. S., President of Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair, [309], [316];
  • succeeds Schofield, [309];
  • in command of Department of Missouri, [315];
  • ferrets out disloyal plot, [316]–323;
  • enlists negro troops, [319];
  • sends away troops, [320];
  • prohibits circulation of Metropolitan Record, checks 319;
  • accused of violation of orders, [321];
  • gets help from General Smith, [327].
• Sac and Fox Indians, sell land, [7].
• Saint-Ange, Captain Louis, acting French governor, 1765, [7].
• Saint Louis, character of people of, in 1860, [1], [3], [4];
  • population in 1860, [1], in 1822, [8];
  • buildings in, [2];
  • dwellings in, [2], [3];
  • early history of, [6]–10;
  • site of, on terraces, [2], [7];
  • capital of Upper Louisiana, [6];
  • trading-post in 1764, [6];
  • its defenses in 1764, [7];
  • incorporated as a town, [7];
  • chartered as a city, [8];
  • divided in sentiment, [40].
• Schofield, General John McAllister, in command in Missouri, [272]–275, [282]–286, [309], [315];
  • commands militia against guerrillas, [273];
  • commands Army of the Frontier, [282];
  • opposed by Charcoals, [283];
  • threatens newspapers, [284];
  • sustained by Lincoln, [285];
  • his view of the radicals, [286];
  • opposed by Claybanks, [287];
  • drills negro troops, [313].
• Schools, for negroes, [333]–337;
  • no public, for negroes in 1864, [333];
  • legislature provides, [336];
  • private, for negroes, poor quality of, [333]–335;
  • examination of teachers for, [334];
  • school board in favor of, for negroes, [336].
• Schurz, Carl, address of, in Saint Louis, “The Doom of Slavery,” [16]–18, [369].
• Scott, General Winfield, denies supreme command to Lyon, [68], [70].
• Schuyler, Episcopalian clergyman, Unionist, [121].
• Search for arms, May 17, [116]–117.
• Secession, urged by cotton states, [23], [24], [33], [49], [57];
  • of South Carolina, [24], [32], [33];
  • of Gulf states, [32], [33], [36];
  • of Georgia, [53], [55];
  • reasons against, [35], [36], [48]–60;
  • process of, [40];
  • Missouri saved from, [40]–62;
  • results of Missouri’s rejection of, [62];
  • efforts for, [71], [81], [82], [147], [315], [332];
  • preaching against, [127]–134;
  • attitude of church and press toward, [142]–145;
  • discussion of, [146]–148;
  • divisions over, in families, neighborhoods and churches, [146]–158;
  • division over in Chamber of Commerce, [153]–154;
  • Ordinance of, passed by defunct legislature, [231]–232.
• Secessionists, active, preceding Lincoln’s inauguration, [38];
  • in Missouri, hopeful, [42].
• Seward, William H., [11].
• Sheeley, Mr., of Independence, conditional unionist, [51].
• Shelby, General, invades Missouri, [326];
  • opposes Ewing, [328].
• Sherman, General W. T., [295];
  • at Camp Jackson, [99]–100;
  • receives aid from Western Sanitary Commission, [298];
  • calls for soldiers, [320];
  • troops meant for, sent to Missouri, [327];
  • in Georgia, [338], [340].
• Simmons, Colonel, [92].
• Simmonds, Medical Director, turns over the “Ben Franklin,” to Sanitary Commission, [297].
• Sisters of Charity, in hospital, [288], [302].
• Slave Mart, the, painting, [156]–157.
• Slave-pens, Lynch’s and Children’s, [182]–187.
• Slavery, its extinction hoped for, [9],
  • • feared, [15];
  • discussion of, [11];
  • protected by law in Saint Louis, [9];
  • speech of Carl Schurz on, [16];
  • speech of Giddings on, [27];
  • how to preserve, [48];
  • Fugitive Slave Law, [51], [52], [181];
  • condition of the slaves, [170]–181;
  • abolition of, demanded, [277], [345]–348;
  • abolition of, by Convention of 1865, [344]–345.
• Slaves, small number of, in Saint Louis, [1], [9];
  • last auction of, [28]–31;
  • condition of, [170]–181;
  • emancipation of, by Lincoln, [149],
    • by owners, [170]–176,
    • by Fremont, [217],
    • by Halleck, [241];
  • attitude of, towards their masters and the war, [178]–181.
• Smarius, Father, [4].
• Smith, General A. J., defends Saint Louis, [326]–327;
  • advances to Pilot Knob, [327];
  • retires behind the Meramec, [328].
• Smith, Mr., delegate from Saint Louis to Convention of 1861, [54].
• Snead, Thomas L., aide to Governor Jackson, [199];
  • praises Lyon, [211];
  • slaves of, freed by Fremont, [217].
• Soldiers’ Home, [300];
  • see “Homes.”
• Songs, John Brown’s Body, [245];
  • Star-Spangled Banner, [247];
  • Yankee Doodle, [247];
  • Rally Round the Flag, [362];
  • America, [129], [362].
• Sons of Liberty, The, [317];
  • see “Knights of the Golden Circle.”
• Spies, in Saint Louis, [237], [238].
• Springfield, Illinois, shipment of arms to, [76]–81;
  • Lincoln at, [162];
  • Lincoln’s burial at, [365].
• Springfield, Missouri, occupied by Lyon’s troops, [202];
  • occupied by Lyon, [203], [207], [209];
  • by Price and McCulloch, [211].
• State Guards, [229], [233];
  • in conflict with Home Guards, [240].
• State Rights Doctrine, absurdity of, shown, [84];
  • humored by Lincoln, [218].
• Statesmen, distinguished, before the war, [4].
• Steamboat, first at Saint Louis, [8];
  • four thousand of, in 1860, [9];
  • City of Alton, [77]–80;
  • J. C. Swan, [118];
  • City of Louisiana, [297];
  • R. C. Wood, [297].
• Stephens, Alexander H., vice-president of Confederacy, [59], [197].
• Stevenson, Colonel, [213].
• Stewart, R. M., Governor of Missouri, [33];
  • pockets bill expelling free negroes, [14];
  • received coldly commissioner from Alabama, [23].
• Stoddard, Major, agent of France and United States, [6].
• Stokes, Captain James H., conveys arms from arsenal, [77]–81.
• Sturgeon, Isaac H., assistant treasurer, calls for troops, [63]–65.
• Sumner, General Edwin V., [124].
• Tate, Samuel, of South Carolina, views of, on importance of Missouri to Confederacy, [118], [119].
• Taylor, Daniel G., mayor of Saint Louis, [71].
• Thanksgiving dinner to unintended diners, [195].
• Thompson, Brigadier-General, of Missouri State Guards, [229];
  • issues proclamation, [230].
• Union Chamber of Commerce, formed, [154].
• Unionists, kinds of, [35], [49]–53;
  • unconditional, [35], [36], [51];
  • conditional, [51], [52], [57];
  • Calhoun unionists, [50], [51];
  • condition of, [51], [52], [53];
  • not panic-stricken, [115];
  • numbers of, in 1865, [362];
  • their success in Convention of 1861, [61];
  • parade of on Washington’s birthday, [248]–249.
• United States Sanitary Commission, [297].
• Vallandigham, Clement L., supreme commander of secret order, [317], [331].
• Vanbuskirk, Mr., of Holt County, [51].
• Van Dorn, General Earl, defeated at Pea Ridge, [244].
• Vicksburg, supplies received at, [298].
• Volunteer troops, [81], [83];
  • numbers of, increased, [85], [244];
  • preaching to, [301];
  • come to defense of Saint Louis, [327].
• Webster, Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home at, [314].
• Welsh, “Father,” Baptist minister, forced to solicit pass, [216].
• Western Sanitary Commission, [254], [288]–308;
  • helps refugees, [261];
  • authorized to fit up hospitals, [288]–289;
  • composition of, [289];
  • opens, City General Hospital, [290],
    • home for soldiers, [292],
    • home for refugees, [293];
  • sustained by generals and Secretary of War, [295];
  • donations to, [295]–296, [299], [314];
  • visits Cairo and Paducah, [296];
  • coöperates with United States Sanitary Commission, [297]–298;
  • sends aid to Generals McClellan and Sherman, and to prisoners at Andersonville, [298];
  • aids freedmen on the lower Mississippi, [298];
  • great demands on, [309];
  • holds Fair, [309];
  • establishes Orphans’ Home, [314].
• Wide-Awakes, The, a Republican political club, [19], [20];
  • arms for, sent as plaster casts, [21]–22;
  • become Home Guards, [69], [71], [72];
  • armed, [81];
  • see also “Home Guards.”
• Wilson’s Creek, battle of, [160], [212], [213], [288];
  • General Lyon killed at, [211].
• Witzig, Julius J., member of Committee of Safety, [92].
• Wood, R. C., Assistant Surgeon General, commands flying hospital, [297].
• Yancey, William L., of Alabama, [59];
  • a Calhoun Unionist, [51].
• Yankees, [99];
  • denounced, [161]–162.
• Yates, Governor Richard, of Illinois, makes requisition for arms in arsenal, [76];
  • summons Stokes to secure the arms, [77].
• Yeatman, James E., President of Western Sanitary Commission, [254], [289], [290];
  • his great work, [288]–299;
  • description of, [289];
  • agent for Miss Dorothea L. Dix, [294];
  • takes aid to Vicksburg, [298], [299].
• Zagonyi, [221];
  • heroism of a soldier of, [307]–308.

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[1]. The originals of both these commissions are in the archives of the Missouri Historical Society. See also Scharf’s History of St. Louis, and Billon’s Annals of St. Louis.

[2]. The Louisiana Purchase; Hitchcock, p. 243.

[3]. W. R. S. 2 Vol. I, p. 244.

[4]. W. R. S. 4, Vol. I, pp. 1–75.

[5]. They called all male slaves, boys.

[6]. W. R. S. 4, Vol. I, pp. 1–75.

[7]. See, on this whole Chapter, Journal and Proceedings of the Missouri State Convention, 1861.

[8]. Journal of the Missouri State Convention, 1861, p. 11.

[9]. Snead, pp. 68–72.

[10]. Journal Missouri State Convention, 1861, pp. 13–20.

[11]. Blaine’s Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. I, p. 505. Vol. II, pp. 202–203.

[12]. Journal Missouri State Convention, 1861, pp. 248–256.

[13]. The State of Missouri by Williams, pp. 545–546.

[14]. Snead in “The Fight for Missouri,” p. 110, says there were in the Arsenal sixty thousand muskets. For this I find no authority.

[15]. W. R. S. 1, Vol. I, p. 667; also W. R. S. 3, Vol. I, p. 80.

[16]. Moore’s Rebellion Record, D. of E., Vol. I, p. 44. Also Doc., p. 147–8.

[17]. Moore’s Rebellion Record, D. of E., Vol. I, p. 30.

[18]. Moore’s Rebellion Record, D. of E., Vol. I, p. 59.

[19]. “The Fight for Missouri,” p. 113.

[20]. Moore, D. of E., Vol. II, p. 60. Doc. 174, p. 494. Also W. R. S. 1, Vol. III, pp. 5–10.

[21]. W. R. S. 1, Vol. III, p. 4; also Moore, Vol. IX, Doc. 11, p. 258.

[22]. Fiske, The Mississippi Valley in the Civil War, pp. 16–17.

[23]. Fiske, pp. 18–19.

[24]. Yet Lucian Carr, “In Missouri a Bone of Contention,” Series of American Commonwealths, pp. 304–305, contends that Frost was loyal.

[25]. W. R. S. 1, Vol. III, p. 706.

[26]. Fiske, The Mississippi Valley in the Civil War, p. 20.

[27]. Moore’s Rebellion Record, Vol. IX, Doc. 11, p. 259.

[28]. D. J. Hancock, President of the Illinois River Packet Co., says the cannon were sent in crockery crates.

[29]. See Lyon’s Report, W. R. S. 1, Vol. III, pp. 4–5; also pp. 386–387.

[30]. W. R. S. 1, Vol. III, p. 9.

[31]. Snead, The Fight for Missouri, p. 179.

[32]. Moore’s Rebellion Record, D. of E., Vol. I, p. 92.

[33]. Moore’s Rebellion Record, Vol. I, p. 363. Also W. R. S. 1, Vol. III, pp. 374–81, 383.

[34]. Moore’s Rebellion Record, Vol. I, D. of E., p. 76.

[35]. W. R. S. 4, Vol. I, p. 276.

[36].

“Not whiggs, nor tories they; nor this, nor that;

Not birds, nor beasts; but just a kind of bat;

A twilight animal; true to neither cause,

With tory wings, but whiggish teeth and claws.”

—Duke of Guise, Prol.

[37]. This painting was purchased by Wm. B. Howard of Chicago, and was burned, not in the great fire, with all of Mr. Howard’s Collection.

[38]. Moore’s Rebellion Record, Vol. I, p. 363.

[39]. Snead, The Fight for Missouri, pp. 199–200.

[40]. Moore’s Rebellion Record, Vol. I, Doc., p. 363.

[41]. W. R. S. 1, Vol. III, p. 384.

[42]. Moore’s Rebellion Record, D. of E., Vol, I. pp. 105–106.

[43]. W. R. S. 1, Vol. III, p. 390.

[44]. P. 410.

[45]. W. R. S. 1, Vol. III, pp. 512, 532, 540 to 549, 568.

[46]. W. R. S. 1, Vol. III, pp. 409–410.

[47]. W. R. S. 1, Vol. III, pp. 407–409.

[48]. W. R. S. 1, Vol. III, pp. 419–424.

[49]. Pp. 419–423.

[50]. Moore’s Rebellion Record, Vol. II, D. of E., p. 52, Doc. 153, p. 467.

[51]. Peckham’s General Nathaniel Lyon and Missouri in 1861, pp. 324–325.

[52]. Snead, The Fight for Missouri, pp. 266–267.

[53]. W. R. S. 1, Vol. III, p. 425.

[54]. W. R. S. 1, Vol. III, p. 460.

[55]. Moore’s Rebellion Record, Vol. II, Doc. 183, pp. 626–627; also W. R. S. 1, Vol. III, p. 442.

[56]. Moore’s Rebellion Record, Vol. III, D. of E., p. 10, Doc. 18, p. 36. W. R. S. 1, Vol. III, pp. 466–469.

[57]. Moore’s Rebellion Record, Vol. III, D. of E., p. 25, Doc. 43, p. 126.

Moore’s Rebellion Record, Vol. III, Doc., p. 129.

[58]. W. R. S. 1, Vol. III, p. 477.

[59]. P. 485.

[60]. Moore’s Rebellion Record, Vol. III, D. of E., p. 32, Doc. 33, p. 70.

[61]. Moore’s Rebellion Record, Vol. III, D. of E., p. 34, Doc. 58, p. 146.

[62]. Moore’s Reb. Rec., Vol. III, D. of E., p. 43.

[63]. W. R. S. 1, Vol. III, pp. 532–533.

[64]. W. R. S. 1, Vol. III, pp. 544–47.

[65]. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Vol. I, pp. 265–267.

[66]. W. R. S. 1, Vol. VIII, p. 434.

W. R. S. 1, Vol. III, pp. 512, 532, 540–549, 568.

[67]. W. R. S. 1, Vol. III, pp. 549, 568–9.

[68]. The order for his removal is dated at Washington, October 24, 1861.

[69]. Moore’s Reb. Rec., Vol. III, D. of E., p. 65, Doc. 126, p. 270. W. R. S. 1, Vol. III, pp. 559–560.

[70]. Pigges Corantoe, or Newes from the North, p. 3.

[71]. The Missouri Republican, July 31st, 1861. Moore’s Rebellion Record, Vol. II, D. of E., p. 40.

[72]. Moore’s Reb. Rec., Vol. II, D. of E., p. 51, Doc. 151, p. 458.

[73]. Moore’s Reb. Rec., Vol. II, D. of E., p. 53, Doc. 156, p. 472.

[74]. August 24th, Moore’s Reb. Rec., Vol. III, Doc., p. 5.

[75]. American Cyclopædia, 1861.

[76]. Moore’s Reb. Rec., Vol. II, D. of E., p. 56, Doc. 163, p. 479.

[77]. Moore’s Reb. Rec., Vol. II, D. of E., p. 70.

[78]. P. 74.

[79]. The State Guards were armed Secessionists, the Home Guards armed Unionists.

[80]. W. R. S. 1, Vol. VIII, p. 369.

[81]. Moore’s Reb. Rec., Vol. III, D. of E., p. 108. Also W. R. S. 1, Vol. VIII, p. 414.

[82]. Moore’s Reb. Rec., Vol. IV, D. of E., p. 18, Doc., p. 129.

[83]. W. R. S. 1, Vol. VIII, pp. 586–587, p. 832.

[84]. Pp. 557, 648.

[85]. Moore’s Reb. Rec., Vol. IV, Doc., p. 52.

[86]. Moore’s Reb. Rec., Vol. III, D. of E., p. 121.

[87]. Moore’s Reb. Rec., Vol. III, D. of E., p. 103. Also W. R. S. 1, Vol. VIII, pp. 431, 490.

[88]. Moore’s Reb. Rec., Vol. IV, D. of E., p. 16.

W. R. S. 2, Vol. I, p. 150.

[89]. W. R. S. 1, Vol. XXII, P. 1, p. 811.

[90]. At that time Missouri was called a State of Misery.

[91]. Forty-Six Years in the Army, pp. 104–106.

[92]. In addition to my own observations, for the facts set forth in this chapter I am largely indebted to “The Western Sanitary Commission: A Sketch ——.”

[93]. Moore’s Reb. Rec., Vol. III, D. of E., p. 25.

[94]. Fiske, The Miss. Valley in the Civil War, p. 270.

[95]. Nicolay and Hay, Vol. VIII, Ch. 1.

[96]. W. R. S. 1, Vol. XXXIV, P. 4, p. 505.

[97]. Moore’s Reb. Rec., Vol. VIII, D. of E., pp. 56, 57.

[98]. W. R. S. 1, Vol. XXXIV, P. 3, p. 107.

[99]. W. R. S. 1, Vol. XXXIV, P. 3, pp. 42, 62, 107.

[100]. W. R. S. 1, Vol. XXXIV, P. 3, pp. 381, 416.

[101]. W. R. S. 1, Vol. XXXIV, P. 3, p. 30.

[102]. W. R. S. 1, Vol. XXXIV, P. 3, pp. 197, 232, 238, 283, 344, 381.

[103]. W. R. S. 1, Vol. XXXIV, P. 3, pp. 283, 364.

[104]. W. R. S. 1, Vol. XXXIV, P. 3, p. 416.

[105]. P. 443.

[106]. P. 574.

[107]. P. 626.

[108]. P. 4, pp. 216, 233, 277.

[109]. W. R. S. 1, Vol. XXXIV, P. 4, pp. 216, 233, 277.

[110]. W. R. S. 1, Vol. XXXIV, P. 3, p. 351.

[111]. W. R. S. 1, Vol. XLI, P. 1, p. 309.

[112]. W. R. S. 1, Vol. XLI, P. 1, pp. 307–340.

[113]. For the facts of this chapter, aside from my own personal observations, see “Journal of the Missouri State Convention, held at the City of St. Louis, January 6–April 10, 1865.”

[114]. See Volk’s life-mask of Lincoln’s face.

[115]. American Church Hist., Vol. VI, pp. 168–9.

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