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Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century Co.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ce. Iconcur with you as to the great importance ofcapturing the arsenal and securing its supplies, .rendered doubly important by the means takento obstruct your commerce and render you unarmedNHCtims of a hostile invasion. We look anxiously andhopefully for the day when the star of Missouri shallbe added to the constellation of the Confederate Statesof .\merica.* In reality he already regarded the staras in the constellation. Three days laterthe rebel Secretary of War wrote to the gov-ernor: Can you arm anrl cfjuip one regiment of infantryfor service in Virginia to rendezvous at Richmond ?Transportation will be provided by this (iovernment.The regiment to elect its own officers, and must enlistfor not less than twelve months, unless sooner dis-charged, t In face of the overwhelming Union senti-mcTit of Missouri, so lately manifested l)y the • Davids to Jack^on, .April 23, 1S61. War Records.t Walker to Jackson, Ai)ri) 26,1861. War Records.(Jackson to Walker, May 5, 1S61. War Records.
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BRIGADIER-GENEKAL NATHANIEL LYON.(from a photograph by BRADY.) action of the State convention, GovernorJackson was not prepared for so bold a pro-ceeding, and therefore wrote in reply : Yours of the 26th ultimo, via Louisville, is received.T have no legal authority to furnish the men you de-sire. Missouri, you know, is yet under the tyrannyof Lincolns government — so far, at least, as forms go.W^c arc wofully deficient here in arms and cannot fur-nish them at present; but so far as men are concernedwe have plenty of them ready, willing, and anxious tomarch at any moment to the defense of tlie South.Our legislature has just met, and I doulit not will giveme all necessary authority over the matter. If you canarm the men they will go whenever wanted, and toany point where they may be most needed. I sendthis to Mem)ihis by private hand, being afraid to trustour mails or telegraphs. Let me hear from you bythe same means. Missouri can and will \i\\\. one hun-dred tJiousand men in the fiel

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