Belle Fontaine, the Cemetery, 4; the Fort, headquarters of Department of Upper Louisiana, 7; Sac and Fox Indians sell land around, 7. Benton, Thomas H., most distinguished man in Missouri, 4; funeral of, 4; called “The Magisterial,” 4; United States Senator, 5; political speeches of, 5; opposed to nomination of John C. Fremont, 5. Bitterness of feeling in Saint Louis during the war, 159–169. Blair, Frank P., 4, 92; member of Congress and friend to Lyon, 69; forms Home Guard, 69; visits President Buchanan, 70; appeals to Secretary of War in Lyon’s behalf, 73; in attack on Camp Jackson, 96; confers with Committee of Safety, 93; rumor of his intended attack on the state capital, 104; life of, threatened, 163–165; proscribed, 169; in conference with General Lyon and Governor Jackson, 199–201; opposes Fremont, 222; becomes conservative, 279. Blunt, General, drives guerrillas from Missouri, 273. Bogie, Mr., candidate for Congress, 5. Boonville, battle of, 202, 203, 288; panic at, 322. Border slave states, ignored by seceding states, 60; kept in Union by Missouri’s loyalty, 62. Bowen, Colonel, of militia, on Kansas border, 88; reports to General Frost at Saint Louis, 89. Breckinridge, Judge S. M., 45. Broadhead, James O, lawyer, 4; member of Convention of 1861, 44; member of Committee of Safety, 92; attendant at Second Baptist Church, 122. Brotherton, Marshal, deacon, slaveholder, emancipator, 170–173. Buchanan, President James, 65, 68, 176; inactivity of, 32, 34–36, 124; contrast to President Jackson, 35; his position repudiated by loyalists, 35; sends troops to Saint Louis, 64; refuses Captain Lyon supreme command of the Arsenal at Saint Louis, 70; prayed for, 124–125. Buckner, General Simon B., surrenders Fort Donelson, 246. Bushwhackers in Missouri, 324; murders by, 325. Butler, General Benjamin F., 262, 285. Cairo, fugitives from panic flee to, 111; military encampment at, 209; General Grant at, 223; Sanitary Commission at, 296; General Smith at, with relief for Missouri, 326. Calhoun, John C., disciples of, in Convention of 1861, 50–51. Cameron, Simon, President Lincoln’s Secretary of War, 84, 88; visits Fremont, 222. Camp Jackson, 86–105, 106, 119, 126, 159, 169, 181, 198, 203; for whom named, 89; fear of, 90–91; number of men at, 91; attack upon, 95–98; prisoners from, 97–99; results from capture of, 99–103; character of, 104–105; streets in, 104. Canby, General E. R. S., calls for soldiers, 320. Carthage, battle of, 288. Cavender, Mr., gives time to Home for Refugees, 293. Chamber of Commerce, division of, 153–154.