INDEX
- Abolitionists, denounced, 48;
- Alabama, Governor of, urges secession, 23, 33.
- Alton, Illinois, arms landed at, 79;
- 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;
- Anderson, Reverend S. J. P., mistaken assault upon, 134–135;
- 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;
- 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;
- Belle Fontaine, the Cemetery, 4;
- Benton, Thomas H., most distinguished man in Missouri, 4;
- 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;
- Brotherton, Marshal, deacon, slaveholder, emancipator, 170–173.
- Buchanan, President James, 65, 68, 176;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- Confiscation, of war material in Saint Louis, 116;
- Constitution of Missouri, new, of 1865, 349, 356;
- 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;
- Curtis, General Samuel R., 274, 280;
- Davidson, Fort, battle of, 328.
- Davis, Jefferson, his letter to Governor Jackson, 87;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- Emancipation, Proclamation of, by President Lincoln, 149;
- Engler, Mr., banished because of resistance to assessments, 243.
- Everett, Edward, delivers oration on Washington, in Saint Louis, 271, 272.
- Ewing, General, 327–330;
- Fair, Mississippi Valley Sanitary, held by Western Sanitary Commission, 309–314;
- 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;
- Fletcher, Governor T. C., 346;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- Grant, General Ulysses S., at Saint Louis, 100;
- 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;
- Hagner, Major Peter V., description of, 67, 72;
- 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;
- “Homes,” for soldiers, 292, 296, 300;
- Hospitals, 288–308;
- 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;
- Jefferson, Thomas, purchase of Louisiana by, 6.
- “John Brown’s Body,” sung by Indiana troops, 245;
- Johnson, Reverend G. J., D.D., 161, 162.
- Johnson, J. B., M.D., of Sanitary Commission, 289.
- Kansas, War, 11;
- Kelly, Captain, at Camp Jackson, 90, 91.
- Kelton, J. C., Fremont’s assistant adjutant-general, 208.
- Knights of the Golden Circle, 317, 338;
- Krekel, Arnold, president of Convention of 1865, 344.
- Laclede, Pierre Ligueste, early trader, 6;
- Ladies’ Union Aid Society, 296;
- 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;
- 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;
- McDowell, Dr., Medical College of, made a military prison, 188–189.
- McKinstry, Major J., suppresses disloyal papers, 214;
- 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;
- Massachusetts, 26, 127, 295, 299.
- Meetings for prayer, 137–138.
- Mercantile Library Hall, 116, 117, 183;
- Militia, of Missouri, to be called out by governor, 63;
- Minute Men, Democratic political club, 20;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- Police of Saint Louis, control of, in hands of Governor Jackson, 71, 72;
- 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;
- Presbyterians, minister of, preaches on “The Ultimatum of the South,” 121;
- 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,
- Prisons, military, 188–197;
- 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;
- 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;
- Republicans, 20;
- Rioting, after the capture of Camp Jackson, 101–102, 106–107;
- Robinson, Lieutenant, 64.
- Rolla, Missouri, Lyon’s army falls back to, 211;
- Rosecrans, General W. S., President of Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair, 309, 316;
- 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;
- Schofield, General John McAllister, in command in Missouri, 272–275, 282–286, 309, 315;
- Schools, for negroes, 333–337;
- 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;
- 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,
- Slaves, small number of, in Saint Louis, 1, 9;
- Smarius, Father, 4.
- Smith, General A. J., defends Saint Louis, 326–327;
- Smith, Mr., delegate from Saint Louis to Convention of 1861, 54.
- Snead, Thomas L., aide to Governor Jackson, 199;
- Soldiers’ Home, 300;
- see “Homes.”
- Songs, John Brown’s Body, 245;
- 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;
- Springfield, Missouri, occupied by Lyon’s troops, 202;
- 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;
- Stephens, Alexander H., vice-president of Confederacy, 59, 197.
- Stevenson, Colonel, 213.
- Stewart, R. M., Governor of Missouri, 33;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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,
- 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;
- 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;
- Zagonyi, 221;
- heroism of a soldier of, 307–308.