"The Campaign and Battle of Wilson's Creek" Topic
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Tango01 | 18 Mar 2020 9:06 p.m. PST |
"The day Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated, Missouri delegates in the state capital, St. Louis, voted 98 to 1 declaring that "there was no adequate cause to impel Missouri to dissolve her connection to the …Union."[1] The date was March 9, 1861. By May, radical Unionists and ardent Secessionists were fighting for control of the state despite a conservative majority which sought compromise. Both extremes were driving the state to armed conflict and in June, the war's first military campaign began, culminating in The Battle of Wilson's Creek on August 10. Fort Sumter's surrender on April 14 demanded action by Lincoln and Secretary of War Simon Cameron who called for 75,000 "militia of the several States of the Union" to serve 90-days."[2] Pro-Secessionist Governor Claiborne Fox Jackson rejected the call for Missouri to provide four regiments, stating flatly that it was ". . . illegal, unconstitutional . . . inhuman, and diabolical . . . Not one man [would] the State of Missouri furnish to carry on such an unholy cause."[3] On May 6, Jackson ordered the state militia to assemble for its annual muster and some units established Camp Jackson just outside St. Louis. It numbered fewer than 900 men and displayed both United States and Confederate flags, but company streets like "Beauregard" and "Davis" left little doubt which faction held sway. Crates labeled "Marble" were delivered to this camp but actually contained cannon from the U.S. arsenal in Baton Rouge; Jackson intended that the guns in the St. Louis Arsenal should be his as well. But it was heavily defended by newly recruited U.S. volunteers, many from St. Louis's large German-American community, due to the efforts of Congressman Frank Preston Blair, Jr., Colonel Franz Sigel and Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon…"
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William Warner | 18 Mar 2020 9:26 p.m. PST |
An excellent article by a former park historian at Wilson's Creek National Battlefield and co-author of "Wilson's Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It." Includes information about how the participants were raised, uniformed and armed, the campaign leading up to the battle, and a detailed account of the fighting. |
Stosstruppen | 19 Mar 2020 6:00 a.m. PST |
I am about a third of the way into that book right now. Well written and very informative, the book that is. |
Tango01 | 19 Mar 2020 12:53 p.m. PST |
Happy you like it boys!. (smile) Amicalement Armand |
donlowry | 19 Mar 2020 5:19 p.m. PST |
Yes, that's a good book on the subject. |
Tango01 | 20 Mar 2020 12:18 p.m. PST |
Thanks!. Amicalement Armand |
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