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Rumors spread throughout the city that the Germans were planning to murder the American population of the city; many wealthy St. Louisans fled to Illinois or the Missouri interior. Martial law was imposed, and with the arrival of federal regulars to relieve the German volunteers, the violence came to
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newspaper in St. Louis, remarked in his memoirs that he gave several of his men leave to visit their families on the morning of May 11 and that "Most of them did not return... until it grew dark, with clothing torn, faces beaten bloody, and all the signs of having suffered mistreatment... Two of them
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Sterling Price as its commander. Unionists described the bill as a "secession act in all but name." Critics also observed that since it stated that all adult men were to be considered reserves of the State Guard and granted the governor vast powers as commander of the Guard, it made Jackson dictator
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Secessionist leader General Frost reported that his command was "deprived of their arms, and surrendered into the hands of Captain Lyon. After which, whilst thus disarmed and surrounded, a fire was opened upon a portion of it by his troops, and a number of my men put to death, together with several
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and ordered to disperse. But the long march was seen as humiliating by pro-secession residents of the city. Angry secessionists shouted insults at the Union troops and threw rocks and debris at them. Units composed predominantly of ethnic Germans were particularly targeted, with shouts of "Damn the
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Lyon suspected the Camp Jackson forces of conspiring to attack the arsenal. His suspicions were confirmed by personal investigation after he visited Camp Jackson, allegedly disguised as an older woman. On May 10, Lyon marched on Camp Jackson with about 6,000 Missouri Volunteers and U.S. Regulars.
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Some Missourians had attempted to find a compromise as "Conditional Unionists," who opposed secession but with conditions: slavery would not be interfered with, and no "coercion" or military force be used against the seceding states of the Confederacy. After the Camp Jackson affair, many of the
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On June 11, Lyon met with Jackson, Price, and their aides at the Planter's House hotel in St. Louis. They argued for four hours (much of it over Jackson's powers under the "Military Bill") before Lyon abruptly ended the meeting by declaring, "Rather than concede to the State of Missouri for one
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them. En route, hostile secessionist crowds gathered and began throwing rocks and shouting ethnic slurs at Lyon's regiments, and after an accidental gunshot, Lyon's men fired into the mob, killed at least 28 civilians, and injured dozens of others. Several days of rioting throughout St. Louis
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Governor Jackson had previously proposed a "Military Bill," which would put the state on a war footing, create a new state military force, and grant the Governor broad executive powers. The bill had stalled at first, but on May 11, the day after the Camp Jackson affair, it was passed by the
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single instant the right to dictate to my government in any matter however important, I would see you, and you, and you, and you, and every man, woman, and child in the State, dead and buried! This means war. In an hour one of my officers will call on you and conduct you out of my lines."
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This eventually led to gunfire. Exactly what provoked the shooting remains unclear, but the most common explanation is that a drunkard stumbled into the path of Lyon's marching soldiers and fired a pistol into their ranks, fatally wounding Captain Constantin Blandowski of the
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issues all played roles in provoking the Camp Jackson affair. The incident immediately polarized the state between Union and Confederate supporters. Previously, most Missourians had advocated neutrality, but many were now forced to take sides.
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but privately supported secession. Since the Constitutional Convention had voted against secession, Jackson and his fellow secessionists decided to carry it out by seizing St. Louis by force and presenting the people of Missouri with a
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to amend the state constitution and decide the issue of secession. On March 21, the Convention voted 98 to 1 against secession but also voted not to supply weapons or men to either side if war broke out. The Convention then adjourned.
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for Harney's removal from command. Unionists outside St. Louis reported harassment by secessionists, despite Harney's implicit understanding that the Missouri State Guard would protect them, and many fled to St. Louis for refuge.
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By order of the War Department, Lyon's next action was to move the arms held in the St. Louis Arsenal out of reach of Missouri secessionists. Early in the morning of April 26, 1861, nearly 21,000 rifles were loaded on the steamer
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Lyon's actions ensured Union control of St. Louis and Missouri for the rest of the war but also deepened the ideological divisions within a state that had initially sought to remain neutral in the larger conflict.
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Civil War reenactors of the Turner Brigade of Missouri Volunteers. They include elements of the 1st Missouri Light Artillery, direct descendants of the 1st Missouri Volunteer Infantry, which participated in Camp
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from St. Louis, as well as a recently-promoted colonel. Lincoln authorized him to relieve Harney at his discretion. On May 30, Blair relieved Harney and permanently replaced him with Lyon. Lyon was promoted to
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The Constitutional Convention reconvened on July 22 and declared the office of Governor vacant because of Jackson's absence. The Convention then voted to appoint former Chief Justice of the
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The incident sparked several days of civil unrest in St. Louis. On May 11, Volunteers were fired upon from windows at 5th and Walnut streets; they returned fire at the mob. Colonel
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movement in St. Louis. Despite his Polish ethnicity, he was embraced by the German-American community as a martyr and a symbol of ethnic-German devotion to the Union.
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20 of the 99 members of the Constitutional Convention were not present since they had retreated to the southwest with Jackson and so did not participate in the vote.
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on June 17, Lyon's troops routed the State Guard. Jackson, the State Guard, and a few secessionist state legislators escaped to southwest Missouri, near the
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Nevertheless, by early 1861, both pro- and anti-secession factions in Missouri were organizing military and paramilitary forces. Secessionists organized as "
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enrolled five companies of St. Louis-area Minutemen as the new 2nd Regiment of the Missouri Volunteer Militia. The same month, a new law banned
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William S. Harney was reinstated as Commander of the Western District and met with Price on May 21. They signed the
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Lyon placed the captured soldiers under arrest and began marching them under guard to the arsenal, where they were
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as acting commander. Lyon, a passionate Unionist, immediately began enlisting and arming St. Louis Unionists as
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followed. The violence ended only after martial law had been imposed and Union regulars dispatched to the city.
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immigrants. Pro-slavery native-born Missourians prejudicially targeted the anti-slavery foreign-born Germans.
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and asked for heavy artillery to breach the walls of the arsenal. His letter was carried by militia officers
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activity outside the framework of that militia, which forced pro-Union activists to organize in secret.
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Although usually described as "German", Blandowski was ethnically Polish, born in
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when the Civil War began. However, only a minority initially favored secession.
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regiment captured a unit of secessionists at Camp Jackson, outside the city of
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Report of Brig. Gen. Daniel M Frost, Missouri State Militia, May 11, 1861,
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Memoirs of a nobody: the Missouri years of an Austrian radical, 1849-1866
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The newly appointed Union commander in Missouri, Brigadier General
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Lyon forced the surrender of the militia, taking 669 prisoners.
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Monument to Nathaniel Lyon with the arsenal in the background
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border, which left most of the state under federal control.
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In mid-April 1861, Jackson wrote to Confederate President
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Davis agreed to Jackson's request. On May 9, the steamer
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Dr. Lorenzo J. Greene; Antonio F. Holland; Gary Kremer.
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and assigned command of all Union forces in Missouri.
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American Civil War
Union Army
St. Louis
slave state
Missouri
Nathaniel Lyon
federal arsenal in St. Louis
parole
slave state
Confederacy
Minutemen
Daniel M. Frost
militia
Constitutional Convention
Battle of Fort Sumter
Liberty Arsenal
Liberty, Missouri
St. Louis Arsenal
Department of the West
United States Army
William S. Harney
War Department
Captain
Nathaniel Lyon
home guard
Wide Awakes
1860 election
Republican Party

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