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

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
CHAPTER XVIII. GEN. EARL VAN DORN TAKES COMMAND
CHAPTER XIX. THE VICTORY IS WON
INDEX

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ILLUSTRATIONS

The Struggle for Missouri.

General Francis P Blair

The War Clouds Gather

The Harney Mansion

General Claiborne Jackson

General Lyon

General John C. Fremont

The Scott-harney Agreement

General Sterling Price

General Franz Sigel

General David Hunter

The St Louis Levee

The Storm Gathers

Sigel Crossing the Osage

General Henry W. Halleck

Battlefield of Wilson's Creek

Table of Union Casualties

Table of Confederate Casualties

Table

General Samuel R. J. Curtis

General Albert Pike

Battle of Pea Ridge

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THE STRUGGLE FOR MISSOURI.

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