Civil War St. LouisFor them especially, federal martial law was an outrage, one that only served to nail the coffin shut on their loyalty to the Union." "Gerteis's narrative encompasses a wide range of episodes and events involving the lynching of freeman Francis McIntosh and murder of publisher Elijah Lovejoy, the infamous Dred Scott saga (which began in St. Louis), city politics and martial law, battles in and around the city (at Camp Jackson, Wilson's Creek, and Pea Ridge), major river campaigns, manufacture of ironclad combat ships, prison camps and hospitals, and efforts to secure civil rights for blacks while denying the same to former Confederates who would not swear loyalty to the Union." |
Contents
A Citizen of the United States | 6 |
A High Wall and a Deep Ditch | 37 |
The Union Without an If | 67 |
This Means War | 97 |
A Passion for Seeming | 126 |
A Friend of the Enemy | 169 |
Curing Us of Our Selfishness | 202 |
Terror of Shot and Shell | 236 |
Slavery Dies Hard | 260 |
A Foundation of Loyalty | 307 |
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