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THE STRUGGLE FOR MISSOURI
BY JOHN McELROY
States are not great except as men may make them, Men are not great, except they do and dare. —Eugene F. Ware.
WASHINGTON, D. C: THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE CO. 1909
DEDICATED TO THE UNION MEN OF MISSOURI
CONTENTS
THE STRUGGLE FOR MISSOURI. INDEX CHAPTER I. A SALIENT BASTION FOR THE SLAVERY EMPIRE CHAPTER II. THE WAR CLOUDS GATHER CHAPTER III. NATHANIEL LYON'S ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE CHAPTER IV. THE CAPTURE OF CAMP JACKSON CHAPTER V. THE SCOTT-HARNEY AGREEMENT CHAPTER VI. THE LAST WORD BEFORE THE BLOW CHAPTER VII. GEN. LYON BEGINS AN EFFECTIVE CAMPAIGN CHAPTER VIII. STORM GATHERS IN SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI CHAPTER IX. EVE OF THE BATTLE OF WILSON'S CREEK CHAPTER X. BATTLE OF WILSON'S CREEK CHAPTER XI. THE AFTERMATH OF WILSON'S CREEK CHAPTER XII. A GALAXY OF NOTABLE MEN CHAPTER XIII. FREMONT'S MARVELOUS INEFFECTIVENESS CHAPTER XIV. THE SAD RETREAT FROM SPRINGFIELD CHAPTER XI. GEN. H. W. HALLECK IN COMMAND CHAPTER XVI. HUNTER, LANE, MISSOURI AND KANSAS CHAPTER XVII. PRICE DRIVEN OUT OF THE STATE CHAPTER XVIII. GEN. EARL VAN DORN TAKES COMMAND CHAPTER XIX. THE VICTORY IS WON INDEX
ILLUSTRATIONS
The Struggle for Missouri.
General Francis P Blair
The War Clouds Gather
The Harney Mansion
General Claiborne Jackson
General Lyon
General John C. Fremont
The Scott-harney Agreement
General Sterling Price
General Franz Sigel
General David Hunter
The St Louis Levee
The Storm Gathers
Sigel Crossing the Osage
General Henry W. Halleck
Battlefield of Wilson's Creek
Table of Union Casualties
Table of Confederate Casualties
Table
General Samuel R. J. Curtis
General Albert Pike
Battle of Pea Ridge
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THE STRUGGLE FOR MISSOURI.
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