THE STRUGGLE FOR MISSOURI

BY JOHN McELROY

States are not great except as men may make them,
Men are not great, except they do and dare.
—Eugene F. Ware.

WASHINGTON, D. C:
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE CO.
1909

DEDICATED
TO THE UNION MEN OF MISSOURI

CONTENTS


[ THE STRUGGLE FOR MISSOURI. ]
[ INDEX ]
[ CHAPTER I. ]A SALIENT BASTION FOR THE SLAVERY EMPIRE
[ CHAPTER II. ]THE WAR CLOUDS GATHER
[ CHAPTER III. ]NATHANIEL LYON'S ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE
[ CHAPTER IV. ]THE CAPTURE OF CAMP JACKSON
[ CHAPTER V. ]THE SCOTT-HARNEY AGREEMENT
[ CHAPTER VI. ]THE LAST WORD BEFORE THE BLOW
[ CHAPTER VII. ]GEN. LYON BEGINS AN EFFECTIVE CAMPAIGN
[ CHAPTER VIII. ]STORM GATHERS IN SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI
[ CHAPTER IX. ]EVE OF THE BATTLE OF WILSON'S CREEK
[ CHAPTER X. ]BATTLE OF WILSON'S CREEK
[ CHAPTER XI. ]THE AFTERMATH OF WILSON'S CREEK
[ CHAPTER XII. ]A GALAXY OF NOTABLE MEN
[ CHAPTER XIII. ]FREMONT'S MARVELOUS INEFFECTIVENESS
[ CHAPTER XIV. ]THE SAD RETREAT FROM SPRINGFIELD
[ CHAPTER XI. ]GEN. H. W. HALLECK IN COMMAND
[ CHAPTER XVI. ]HUNTER, LANE, MISSOURI AND KANSAS
[ CHAPTER XVII. ]PRICE DRIVEN OUT OF THE STATE
[ CHAPTER XVIII. ]GEN. EARL VAN DORN TAKES COMMAND
[ CHAPTER XIX. ]THE VICTORY IS WON
[ INDEX ]


ILLUSTRATIONS


[ The Struggle for Missouri. ]

[ General Francis P Blair ]

[ The War Clouds Gather ]

[ The Harney Mansion ]

[ General Claiborne Jackson ]

[ General Lyon ]

[ General John C. Fremont ]

[ The Scott-harney Agreement ]

[ General Sterling Price ]

[ General Franz Sigel ]

[ General David Hunter ]

[ The St Louis Levee ]

[ The Storm Gathers ]

[ Sigel Crossing the Osage ]

[ General Henry W. Halleck ]

[ Battlefield of Wilson's Creek ]

[ Table of Union Casualties ]

[ Table of Confederate Casualties ]

[ Table ]

[ General Samuel R. J. Curtis ]

[ General Albert Pike ]

[ Battle of Pea Ridge ]

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