CHAPTER PAGE I. ST. LOUIS 1 II. FOREBODINGS OF CONFLICT 11 III. RUMBLINGS OF THE CONFLICT 32 IV. THE BOOMERANG CONVENTION 40 V. THE FIGHT FOR THE ARSENAL 63 VI. CAMP JACKSON 86 VII. RIOT, PANIC, SEARCH AND CONFISCATION 106 VIII. THE PULPIT AND THE PRESS 120 IX. DECISION AND DIVISION 146 X. BITTERNESS 159 XI. SLAVES AND SLAVE-PENS 170 XII. PRISONS AND PRISONERS 188 XIII. LYON IN CONFERENCE AND IN CAMPAIGN 198 XIV. FREMONT AND FIASCO 206 XV. EXTRAORDINARY ACTS 227 XVI. HALLECK AND HIS MANIFESTOES 234 XVII. REFUGEES 251 XVIII. DIFFICULT CURRENCY 268 XIX. NOT PEACE BUT THE SWORD 271 XX. CHARCOALS AND CLAYBANKS 276 XXI. HOMES AND HOSPITALS 288 XXII. THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY SANITARY FAIR 309 XXIII. A DARK PLOT THWARTED 315 XXIV. NEGRO SCHOOLS 333 XXV. AFTER DARKNESS LIGHT 338 XXVI. RADICALS IN CONVENTION 342 XXVII. THE WIND-UP 360 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE A BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF ST. LOUIS IN 1860 _Frontispiece_ From a lithograph in the possession of the Missouri Historical Society. THE ARSENAL, ST. LOUIS, IN 1866 63 CAMP JACKSON, ST. LOUIS 89 From a photograph in the possession of the Missouri Historical Society. GRATIOT STREET PRISON, FORMERLY THE MCDOWELL MEDICAL COLLEGE 188 From an oil painting, the property of the Missouri Historical Society. BRIGADIER-GENERAL NATHANIEL LYON 198 GENERAL FREMONT’S HEADQUARTERS, ST. LOUIS 206 FACSIMILE OF A PASS, ISSUED TO THE AUTHOR IN 1861 215 THE AUTHOR, GALUSHA ANDERSON, IN 1861 218 From a daguerreotype. HONORABLE FRANK P. BLAIR, JR. 279 From an oil painting, the property of the Missouri Historical Society. MAJOR-GENERAL HENRY W. HALLECK 279