Harney, General William Selby, orders troops away from subtreasury, 64; sketch of life of, 67; refuses chief command to Lyon, 68; sustained by General Scott and President Buchanan, 70; appoints Lyon in command at the arsenal, 72; called to Washington, 73; characterizes the militia bill as a secession measure, 103; returns to Saint Louis, 108; tries to quiet panic, 108–109; proclamation of, 108, 115; seizes arms, 116–117; his agreement with Price, 117; removal of, 118; succeeded by Lyon, 118, 198. Harper, Captain, extraordinary abolitionist, 174–176. Henderson, Honorable John B., chairman of committee, reports against prayer of Georgia to secede, 55. Henry, Fort, capture of, 245. Home Guards, 62, 72, 73, 200, 274; “Wide-Awakes” transformed into, 69; plans to secure arms for, 69; control of, in hands of Governor Jackson, 71, 72; attack upon, 106; rumor of intended attack by, 108–114; declared enemies to the Confederacy, 233; in conflict with State Guards, 240; defend Saint Louis, 327. “Homes,” for soldiers, 292, 296, 300; for refugees, 293, 295, 261; for orphans, 314; number of people cared for in, 300. Hospitals, 288–308; great demand for, 291; fifteen, 291; New House of Refuge, 288; City Hospital, 288; City General, 290; cars fitted as, by General Fremont, 296; floating, 297; flying, 297; Southerners in, 302; incidents in, 301–308; uplifting influence of, on Saint Louis, 308. How, John, member of Union Safety Committee, 69, 92, 93; defeat of, for mayor, 71. Howell, Mr., conditional unionist delegate to Convention of 1861, 52. Hunter, General David, succeeds Fremont, 225–226, 234. Independence, battle of, 273. Ironton, lead seized at, by Lyon, 118. Jackson, Governor Claiborn F., 44, 66, 71, 77, 79, 89, 94, 103, 105, 119, 198; sympathizes with secession, 23, 33; favors convention, 41–42; receives Commissioner Glenn, 54; rumor of his intention to seize arsenal, 77; appoints police commissioners, 72; refuses troops, 84, 88; plants batteries, 86; in correspondence with Confederacy, 87–88; summons special session of legislature, 88; confers with Frost on seizure of Saint Louis, 87–88; buys munitions, 90; removes war material from Jefferson City, 104; a fugitive, 167, 227, 229; in conference with Lyon, 198–202; visits Jefferson Davis at Richmond, 229; returns and issues proclamation, 231. Jackson, James, contraband, tries to learn to read, 265–266. Jefferson Barracks, hospital at, 291; receives and treats eleven thousand soldiers, 292. Jefferson City, 70, 77, 88, 201, 346, 347; Convention leaves, 43, 45, 60; panic at, 102–104; evacuated by Jackson, 201; occupied by Lyon, 202; occupied by Brigadier-General U. S. Grant, 220; Fremont at, 221–223; troops at, overestimated, 330; emancipation celebrated at, 348.