CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
FROM ST. LOUIS TO BELMONT
Scope of the present narrative.1
Importance of the border states in 1861 .... 2
Of Kentucky and Missouri. 5, 6
Position of Missouri in the causal sequence of events . 6, 7
Some account of Francis Preston Blair and his family . . 8, 9
Claiborne Jackson and his schemes ..... 10
Nathaniel Lyon , and Blair ’s “ Home Guards ” . .10
Plots and counter-plots; “ rebellion against Missouri ” . 11
President Lincoln, through General Scott, authorizes certaingentlemen to act as a Committee of Safety . . .12
Lyon removes the arms from the arsenal and guards the
neighbouring hills .13
The state troops select a camping - ground on Lindell’sMeadow and enclose it ....... 13
Camp Jackson, its avenues and its denizens ... 14
Why Blair and Lyon deemed prompt action necessary . . 14
Arrival of arms from Baton Rouge ..... 15
Hospitalities at Camp Jackson j a visitor in bombazine . 15,16
A lady with spurs.16
Lyon summons the Committee of Safety . . . .17
Replevin vs. capture.. , 18
Camp Jackson surrenders to Lyon . . . , .19
A secessionist flag in Pine Street is hauled down . . 20
Colloquy on a street-car.20