Category Archives: Missouri

February 8, 1863: New Jersey doesn’t want to pay to free Missouri slaves

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Allen Gathman

The New York Times takes New Jersey’s legislature to task for opposing compensated emancipation in Missouri. Apparently New Jersey legislators don’t feel that freeing Missouri slaves does their state any good. Slavery in Missouri. We notice that resolutions have been … Continue reading →

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October 12, 1862: Onward in the Southwest

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Allen Gathman

The New York Times predicts victory in the southwest, and enumerates the North’s advantage. The Onward Movement in the Southwest. Published: October 12, 1862 The Southwestern States have fairly begun work, after the long rest they have had during the … Continue reading →

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June 21, 1862: Slavery is doomed in Missouri

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Allen Gathman

The New York Times ran an editorial predicting that slavery would be unable to persist for long in Missouri. Many slaveholders had absconded in fear of federal troops, and antislavery sentiment was growing. As it turns out, there wouldn’t be … Continue reading →

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May 29, 1862: Guerrilla warfare in Missouri

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Allen Gathman

The guerrilla war in Missouri continues. Rebels take a union supply train; confederate officers are captured crossing the Missouri. Outside of St. Louis, the rest of Missouri was in a constant state of flux, controlled by whichever partisans happened to … Continue reading →

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April 25, 1862: The distribution of Southern sentiment in Missouri

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Allen Gathman

Slave Population in Missouri, 1860 The Richmond Daily Dispatch reports strong Confederate sympathies in Missouri, except for the “German and emigrant Yankee population”. It is a peculiarity of Missouri geography that northern (or at least central) Missouri sentiment was more … Continue reading →

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April 4, 1862: Thompson guards Crowley’s Ridge

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Allen Gathman

The “Missouri Swamp Fox”, Jeff Thompson, was still in action in the Missouri bootheel. The nearly impenetrable swamps in the region were traversed by a single strip of high ground, the ancient river bank known as Crowley’s Ridge. It was … Continue reading →

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March 31, 1862: Bombardment of Island No. 10

Posted on March 31, 2012 by Allen Gathman

The Carondelet running the gantlet at Island No. 10 By the way, Craig Swain has a nice piece up on Civil War Monitor about Island No. 10 and the construction of a canal to bypass it during the siege. The … Continue reading →

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March 26, 1862: Siege of Island No. 10 gets old.

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Allen Gathman

Commodore Foote After the confederate forces withdrew from New Madrid to Island No. 10, just upstream in the Mississippi, the federal forces laid siege to that island. After a couple of weeks, the siege was having a bad effect on … Continue reading →

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March 19, 1862: All quiet at Island No. 10

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Allen Gathman

General John Pope The attack on Island No. 10 appeared to be stalled, though the Confederate force had been bottled up effectively. WASHINGTON, Wednesday, March 19. A dispatch received from Cairo, dated 9 o’clock to-night, says nothing has been heard … Continue reading →

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March 15, 1862: Expedition leaves for Island No. 10

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Allen Gathman

Commodore Foote sets off from Cairo down the Mississippi to Island No. 10. The Confederate garrison had evacuated New Madrid and moved to the island to continue blocking shipping on the Mississippi. From the New York Times: As usual, you … Continue reading →

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