. History of Missouri in words of one syllable . way to the heights of the Blue Ridge,where white mans foot had not trod, till he found apath. It was for deeds of pluck like this that Fre-mont made fame long ere the war of the States. Heled the way oer the wild, rude Rock-y Moun-tains,and got for it the proud name of The Path-finder. When Gen-er-al Fre-mont got to St. Lou-is hesought a good place for his head-quar-ters, and foundit at the cor-ner of Paul Street and Chau-teauAv-e-nue. A fine house and grounds, the home ofCol. Josh-u-a Brant. 162 History of Missouri. This, in the first place, di
. History of Missouri in words of one syllable . way to the heights of the Blue Ridge,where white mans foot had not trod, till he found apath. It was for deeds of pluck like this that Fre-mont made fame long ere the war of the States. Heled the way oer the wild, rude Rock-y Moun-tains,and got for it the proud name of The Path-finder. When Gen-er-al Fre-mont got to St. Lou-is hesought a good place for his head-quar-ters, and foundit at the cor-ner of Paul Street and Chau-teauAv-e-nue. A fine house and grounds, the home ofCol. Josh-u-a Brant. 162 History of Missouri. This, in the first place, did not please the friendsof Gen-er-al Ly-on, who thought the Ar-se-nal oughtto be the place for the Gen-er-al as well as the did not want to see style nor an air of state THE BRANT MAN-SION, FRE-MONTs HEAD-QUAR-TERS, ST. LOU-IS. that made one think a king had come to make herehis roy-al head-quar-ters. Some claim that if Fre-mont had paid more heedto the needs of Gen-er-al Ly-on and the troops in the General Frtniont in Missouri. 163. I 164 ^ Histoiy of Ulissoitri. field, Ly-on would not have met death as he did withso few troops to aid him ; and some say Ly-on wouldnot wait for troops to be sent to him. He was keenfor a fight, and went at the foe with a rush, nor gavefair thought to the brave men he led to their deathere the army was in the right trim to meet the foeon the field of strife with Gen-er-als Price, McCul-loch, and Rains to lead them. Gen-er-al McCul-lochs ar-my con-sist-ed of theFirst Di-vis-ion- com-mand-ed by him-self; the Sec-ond Di-vis-ion,. by Gen-er-al Pearce, of Ar-kan-sas,and the Third Di-vis-ion, Gen-er-al Steen. TheMis-sou-ri troops were under com-mand of Ma-jor-Gen-er-al Ster-ling Price, and were as follows : TheAd-vance Guard, six com-pan-ies, under Brig-a-dier-Gen-er-al Rains ; First Bri-gade, Colo-nel Rich-ardHan-son Weight-man, and oth-er di-vis-ions and bri-gades un-der Brig-a-dier-Gen-er-al Wil-liam Y. Slack,of Chil-li-cothe (for-mer-ly
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