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Contents
List of Illustrations
Series Editors’ Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
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Slavery in Missouri 6
A Proslavery Speech on the Admission of Missouri
A Girl Named Mourning
The Freedom Law, 1824
“Yesterday was the . . . Sale of my darkeys”
“The girl I shall not warrant sound”
“Rachel is free”
“All hands at work at the peaches”
Statutory Restrictions on the Rights and Liberties of Free Black People
Charles Peabody Describes Slavery in Lexington, Missouri
Dred Scott Sues for His Freedom
Bond for a Free Black Woman
William Wells Brown Remembers His Life as a Slave
“Emancipation . . . would convert this vast region . . . into a
howling wilderness”
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Missouri Divides 31
The Squatter Sovereign Proclaims: “Kansas declared in favor of Slavery”
A Republican Newspaper Editor Comments Favorably
on the High Price of Missouri Slaves
A St. Louis Newspaper Laments the “fratricidal strife on the soil of Kansas”
William B. Napton Deplores the Possibility of Emancipation in Missouri
Democratic and Constitutional Union Newspaper Editorials on the 1860
Presidential Election Missouri! Bright Land of the West!
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Missouri Democrats Proclaim Their Loyalty
Minerva Blow’s Flag Is Still Waving for the Union
“Peace . . . should be maintained in our State”
“The attempt to overthrow an established government is the
plainest treason”
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Missourians Confront War 58
Missouri’s Minute Men Join the Southern Cause
Lieutenant Colonel John S. Bowen Reports on Jayhawkers to Governor
Claiborne F. Jackson
General Daniel M. Frost and Captain Nathaniel Lyon Argue over the
Fate of Camp Jackson
Alice Cayton Believes St. Louis Will Be Cleared of Germans
Governor Jackson Condemns the “bloody and revolutionary schemes”
of the U.S. Government
“I Goes to Fight mit Sigel”
German Ladies Present a Union Flag
“You may be assured that she talks Southern”
The Ladies Union Aid Society Visits Benton Barracks
Stephan Werly Refuses to Serve under a Colonel Who “does not seem
to know any religion”
The Ladies Union Aid Society Raises Funds for the Cause
Confederate Soldiers Exhort Pro-Southern Women to Stand Firm
This War amongst Neighbors and Brothers
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Missouri’s Battles 84
Remembering Boonville: The First Battle on the Soil of Missouri
Union Soldiers Are Spoiling for a Fight
“I feel any thing but lonesome when I get among the St. Louis Boys”
“They were ever seen in the thickest of the fight, cheering on their men”:
The Battle of Wilson’s Creek
The Ray Children Witness the Battle of Wilson’s Creek
General John C. Frémont Declares Martial Law and Frees Slaves
“We are engaged in war with an army of desperate adventurers”
Private Henry Voelkner Complains about the Army’s Lack of Information
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Edward Bates Discusses Gunboats and Politics with His Son
A Senate in Exile
Rebel Soldiers Declare, “Our cause is as sure to triumph as God
reigns in Heaven”
David Monlux Tells His Father, “We have a first rate time in our tent”
A Jesuit Chaplain Suffers alongside His Soldiers
A Confederate Soldier at the Siege of Vicksburg
Sergeant Albert Allen Wants to Emigrate to Mexico to Get away
from Germans
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Civilians Cope with War 121
“Fashionable Secesh Ladies” Write Their Friends in the Army
A St. Louis “she-devil” Promises Revenge
Elvira Scott Laments That Her Home Is “no longer a safe asylum”
Lucy Thurman Asks Her Cousin to Come Home if He Can “get out
of old Abe’s clutches”
“Let us see if we can’t have a ‘raid’ ourselves”
Willard Mendenhall Is Harassed by Federals
Steamers and Ships on the Mississippi River
Henry Crawford Describes the Execution of a Bushwhacker
Private David Allan Cares Little for Suffering Farmers in Southeast Missouri
Sarah Jane Hill Helps Nurse Wounded Union Soldiers
Cordelia Harvey Cares for Wounded and Sick Soldiers at Cape Girardeau
A Woman’s Secret Code
William Kesterson Writes Home from an Army Hospital
Are Partisan Rangers Confederate Soldiers?
The St. Louis Union Club “will no longer dally with treason nor
compromise with traitors”
How I Robbed a Young Couple
Adair County Provides for Widows and Orphans
Refugee Children
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Bushwhackers, Jayhawkers, and Prisoners 155
Mary Ann Cordry Takes the Oath of Loyalty
General Order No. 11
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General Schofield Copes with the Aftermath of General Order No. 11
“There are strict orders against taking any more prisoners that is found . . . as
bushwhackers”
A Missouri Soldier Burns Homes in Tennessee
“I had nothing much to [lose] and what I had is gone”
“Bloody Bill” Anderson Threatens the Women of Western Missouri
Cyrus Russell Is Taken Prisoner during the Battle of Pilot Knob
“The military force looked miserably insufficient to successfully cope
with the enemy”
They Received Confederate Friends with Smiles and Tears
“Strange to say—we did not feel afraid”
The Suffering Condition of the People
The Journal of Western Commerce Reports Rising Prices in Missouri
Dr. Holmes Cares for His Fellow Prisoners
How a Young Lady Got into Gratiot Street Prison
Only Eight in the Guard House
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First Steps toward Emancipation 190
Henry T. Blow Asks President Abraham Lincoln to
Pass an Emancipation Edict
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A Missouri Lady Dreads Winter among “insolent negroes”
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Edward Bates Warns Provisional Governor Hamilton Gamble
of Political Intrigues
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“He talks of nothing but Emancipation”
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Missourians React to the Emancipation Proclamation
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Deed of Emancipation
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A Union Soldier Deplores Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation
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Private William R. Donaldson Criticizes the Recruitment of Black Soldiers 202
“If they want any of their family, they can arm themselves . . . and
take them”
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Missouri State Representatives Argue about Emancipation
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Republican Isidor Bush Implores the People of Missouri to Take a
Stand on Slavery
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Negro Hunting
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Recruiting Soldiers of African Descent
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An Ambush at Poison Springs
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Reconciliation and Promises 215
“The ruinous . . . conservative war policy”
“Freedom as the watchword of our new life”
Private Solomon B. Childress Swears Vengeance on Columbia
William B. Napton Fears the Control of Radical Republicans
The Daily Missouri Democrat Celebrates the End of Slavery in Missouri
Cousin Jimmie Describes Emancipation on the Farm
George Cruzen Musters Out of the Confederate Service and
Emigrates to Mexico
William Murphy Pleads for Release from Gratiot Street Prison
To All Who Were Rebels, Traitors, Sympathizers and Their Friends
W. R. Dyer Fears That the Country Is Drifting into Civil War Again
John Mercer Langston Demands Equality before the Law
This Great Problem of Reconstruction
Freedman’s Bank Records
Martyrdom in Missouri
An Ex-Confederate Soldier Applies for a Pension
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Timeline
Discussion Questions
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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