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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