Describe the action of the 5th (3 months) from May to August 1861, including descriptions of a skirmish with citizens in St. Louis on May 11, quelling of a prisoner rebellion at the state penitentiary in Jefferson City, the killing of James Lightner, and affairs in and around Lexington, Mo. Transcription: Beaver Creek Illinois Janry 1871 To all whom it may concern I dedicate this document. Especially to Wife & Children I am in my fiftieth year. Should I live untill the 18the day of the coming October, I will be fifty years old. These years have brought to me, may changes, some pleasa
Describe the action of the 5th (3 months) from May to August 1861, including descriptions of a skirmish with citizens in St. Louis on May 11, quelling of a prisoner rebellion at the state penitentiary in Jefferson City, the killing of James Lightner, and affairs in and around Lexington, Mo. Transcription: Beaver Creek Illinois Janry 1871 To all whom it may concern I dedicate this document. Especially to Wife & Children I am in my fiftieth year. Should I live untill the 18the day of the coming October, I will be fifty years old. These years have brought to me, may changes, some pleasant. some unpleasant. Up to the year 1861 my life flowed in the usual chanel. But for important breaks & changes, other than those which usually fall to the lot of man The spring of 1861 found me in business, conducting in connection with one Wm Blake[William Blake] the tinning & Plumbing business in St. Louis Missouri, at this period, I was measurably succesfull, I owned a home. A residence which I had built some ten years previous. I had however, from time to time, had improved this house, In the year 1857 I had remodeled & improved it, to the extent of making it quite commanding, & comfortable. I had three living children at this period, & a wife, who was then & is now, the darling, & idle of my heart, My whole, & highest ambition was for the elevation, & prosperity & happiness of these darling[s] who were given me, to love & take care off. From this period 1857, up to the spring of 1861, the lives of myself & family flowed on as stated, evenly & happily, no break occurring to cause us any marked unhappiness, My ambition at this period, & for the years immedeately prior thereto was for the happiness, elevation & education of my three darling children, named respectively Ella J. Lillie B. & Mollie A. Aged now at this writing 18 ? 15 ?& 13 years. At this latter period 1861 the political horizonof our country, became over cast, & clouded. The low, but distinct mutterings of th
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