SILENT.-A VILLANOUS PLOT.-THE RECKLESS AND DESPERATE SCHEMES OF THE CONSPIRATORS.-THE PLAN REVEALED.-THE PRESIDENT AND GEN. SILENT WARNED OF THEIR DANGER. CHAPTER XX. COLLAPSE OF THE GREAT REBELLION.-LAWS' ARMY SURRENDERS.- THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. CHAPTER XXI. SCHEME FOR A NEW REBELLION.-ANDREW JOHNSON AND HIS CO-CONSPIRATORS.-THE GENERAL OF THE ARMY AND SECRETARY OF WAR SAVE THE COUNTRY.-"TOM" ANDERSON'S BRUTAL MURDER.-UNCLE DANIEL DIES. ILLUSTRATIONS Uncle Daniel Telling his Story Tom and the Mob Death of Harvey Lyon The Charge of Col. Anderson's Regiment Pupils Attacking the Little Abolitionist Col. Anderson Wounded Uncle Daniel Meets Aunt Martha Ham Encounters the Rebels Knights of the Golden Circle Meeting in a Barn Drinking to the Success of Treason Henry Lyon is Captured Death of General Lyon General Anderson Taking Command Anderson Overhears the Conspiracy The Murder of Steven Lyon Morganson's Raid A Spector Appears to the General Seraine With Henry at Pine Forest Prison Jackson Starts for Europe The Burning of the Will-o-the-wisp Thomlinson and Friends in Consultation Marriage of Henry and Seraine Gens. Silent and Meador in Conversation A Scene in the Trenches Mrs. Lyon Dies at Peter's Coffin Uncle Daniel Conferring With Lincoln and Stanton The Shooting of President Lincoln by Wilkes Murderous Assault Upon Gen. Anderson and Family Death of Uncle Daniel THE STRUGGLE FOR MISSOURI By John Mcelroy 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 XV 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 LLUSTRATIONS 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 THE RED ACORN By John McElroy