Currency, 268–270; postage-stamps used as, 269; “postage currency,” 269; “fractional currency,” 269; furs used as, 8. Curtis, General Samuel R., 274, 280; drives Price from Missouri, 244; wins victory at Pea Ridge, 244; in command at Saint Louis, 274; favors Charcoals, 280; confiscations by, 280; in collision with governor, 281; removal of, 282, 283. Davidson, Fort, battle of, 328. Davis, Jefferson, his letter to Governor Jackson, 87; cannon solicited from, 88, 94; street in Camp Jackson named for, 104; cannon sent by, to Saint Louis, 105; cheers for, 191; visited by Governor Jackson, 229; authorized to raise troops in Missouri, 232; approves act admitting Missouri to Confederacy, 233. Decisions for and against the Union, 146–158; for the Union, 146–149. Democrats, 20; on Saint Louis school board, 336. Divisions, caused by the war, 146–158; in church, 151–153; in Chamber of Commerce, 153–154; between friends, 149–151, 154. Dix, Dorothea L., superintendent of nurses, 288; appoints Mr. Yeatman her agent in Saint Louis, 294. Donelson, Fort, capture of, 246; Sanitary Commission at, 296. Douglas, Stephen A., his debates with Lincoln, 11; champion of squatter sovereignty, 17, 20. Drake, Charles D., advocate of Oath of Loyalty, “Draconian Oath,” 355; calls for cheers for Lee’s surrender, 360. Dryden, John, altered quotation from, 148. Dug Spring, battle of, 288. Duke, Basil Wilson, leader of Minute Men, police commissioner, 72. Eliot, Reverend William G., D.D., 4, 301; Unitarian, unionist, 121; of the Sanitary Commission, 289; description of, 290; offers prayer of thanksgiving in Convention of 1865, 345–346. Emancipation, Proclamation of, by President Lincoln, 149; by individual slave owners, 170–176; by General Halleck, 241; Ordinance passed by Missouri Convention of 1865, 345, 356; celebrated at Saint Louis and Jefferson City, 347–348. Engler, Mr., banished because of resistance to assessments, 243. Everett, Edward, delivers oration on Washington, in Saint Louis, 271, 272. Ewing, General, 327–330; holds Pilot Knob, 327; checks Price at Fort Davidson, 328; retreats to the Meramec, 329; holds Harrison Station, 329. Fair, Mississippi Valley Sanitary, held by Western Sanitary Commission, 309–314; participants in, 309–310; departments of, 311–312; Germans in, 311–312; wide-spread response to appeals for, 310; success of, 313; a boon to Saint Louis, 314. Federal Relations, committee on in convention of 1861, 49, 53, 57. Filley, Oliver D., mayor of Saint Louis, a friend to Lyon, 69; member of Committee of Safety, 92.