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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







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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

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