{"id":3933,"date":"2011-05-17T14:52:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T19:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?p=3933"},"modified":"2011-05-17T09:31:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T14:31:59","slug":"civil-war-in-missouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2011\/05\/17\/civil-war-in-missouri\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Civil War in Missouri\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2011\/05\/HD_Missouri1857z.preview.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3934\" title=\"Missouri, 1857\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2011\/05\/HD_Missouri1857z.preview-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2011\/05\/HD_Missouri1857z.preview-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2011\/05\/HD_Missouri1857z.preview.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> One hundred fifty years ago <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/panel\/this_date\/1861-05-17\" target=\"_blank\">today<\/a> the Savannah (GA) <em>News<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/35919\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> a short report on the serious conditions that existed in <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/9007\" target=\"_blank\">Missouri<\/a>. The <em>News<\/em> characterized the situation as one in which the Republicans were trying to take over the state with force. They \u201care making open war upon the people of that State who refuse abject submission to Abe Lincoln,\u201d as the <em>News<\/em> explained. In addition, the <em>News<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/35919\" target=\"_blank\">described <\/a>an incident in <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/9394\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis<\/a> in which Republicans had apparently killed civilians:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">According to the newspaper accounts, the late massacre by his troops in St. Louis was of a more serious character than at first reported. \u2013 Some twenty persons \u2013 men, women and children \u2013 were killed, and a large number were wounded. It is further stated that no attack was made upon the troops by the people, who hooted and jeered the Lincoln troops, when three of the German companies fired upon them.<\/p>\n<p>Yet even though northerners were \u201ccollecting supplies to be sent immediately to the Lincoln forces in Missouri,\u201d the <em>News<\/em> remained confident \u201cthat the day of retribution\u2026 is not far distant.\u201d As the <em>News<\/em> concluded, \u201cthere is a spirit of resolute resistance in both Missouri and Maryland, that will not be easily subdued.\u201d\u00a0You can learn more about the war is Missouri in Bruce Nichols\u2019 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=O7XwGFQDaDoC&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;dq=civil%20war%20missouri&amp;pg=PP1#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=true\" target=\"_blank\">Guerrilla Warfare in Civil War Missouri, 1862<\/a><\/em> (2004) and Donald L. Gilmore\u2019s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=6NCEb-2SU-4C&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;dq=civil%20war%20missouri&amp;pg=PP1#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=true\" target=\"_blank\">Civil War on the Missouri-Kansas Border<\/a><\/em> (2005).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One hundred fifty years ago today the Savannah (GA) News published a short report on the serious conditions that existed in Missouri. The News characterized the situation as one in which the Republicans were trying to take over the state with force. They \u201care making open war upon the people of that State who refuse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-historic-periodicals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3933"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3939,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions\/3939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}