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Title: The Union cause in St. Louis in 1861 (electronic resource): an historical sketch
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Rombauer, Robert J. (Robert Julius), 1830-1925
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Publisher: St. Louis : Press of Nixon-Jones Prtg. Co.
Contributing Library: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library
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up the Missouri.They hoisted a Union flag at Brunswick, organized Home Guards andcaptured some violent Secessionists. On July 9 they fished out fiveold cannon from their hiding place in the river at Lexington,secured some powder, and, under the direction of Captain John A.Neustaedter from the Artillery, laid out and built the fortifications,which later on were defended by Mulligans men and 1,2*20 menunder Colonel B. W Grover, who formed a Home Guard Regimentfrom the neighboring counties and was mortally wounded in defenseof the place. While at Blue Mills destroying boats the Fifth Reservelost 1 man killed and had 12 wounded Companies of the Regimentwent up to Leavenworth and secured there some aid in men and arms,and left two cannons and two mortars in the Lexington forts. Re-turning to Boonville. they were attacked from the river bluff andlost several men. On July )9th Colonel Stifels Fifth Reserve re-turned to the St. Louis Arsenal and delivered their prisoners andcontraband of war.
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CHARLES G. STIFEL. Colonel oth U. S. Reserve Corps, Missouri Volunteers. CHAPTER XL JOHN C. FREMONT. The measure of attaching Missouri to McClellans Department,with Headquarters 500 miles away, was objected to by McClellanhimself, and the Blairs and other prominent Union men urged andsecured the organization of the Western Department, embracing allStates and Territories west of the Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains,including also the State of Illinois. John C. Fremont was appointedto this Command. It was a popular appointment. The pathfinderover the Rocky Mountains who had crossed the great desert andsecured California, the land whose rivers run with sand of gold, thescientist honored by Alexander Humboldt, the Republican candidatefor Presidency in 1856, nominated on the first ballot and receiving114 electoral votes, was certainly the most welcome Commander toall progressive .elements in the new Department. John C. Fremont was born and educated in the South; the exactstudy of mathema

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