. Young folk's history of the war for the union . zabeth-town, and early in thenext month he was givencommand of the Depart-ment of the Cumberland,including the States ofKentucky and Tennes-see, in place of GeneralAnderson, who was re-tired on account of illhealth. After this Kentuckytook a firm stand on theside of the Union, and John C. Fremont. , j.,i i j? j most or those who favoredsecession left the State. Among them was John C. Breckin-ridge, ex-Vice-President of the United States, and HumphreyMarshall, a former member of Congress, both of whom becamebrigadier-generals of the Confederacy;
. Young folk's history of the war for the union . zabeth-town, and early in thenext month he was givencommand of the Depart-ment of the Cumberland,including the States ofKentucky and Tennes-see, in place of GeneralAnderson, who was re-tired on account of illhealth. After this Kentuckytook a firm stand on theside of the Union, and John C. Fremont. , j.,i i j? j most or those who favoredsecession left the State. Among them was John C. Breckin-ridge, ex-Vice-President of the United States, and HumphreyMarshall, a former member of Congress, both of whom becamebrigadier-generals of the Confederacy; John Morgan, afterwardfamous as a partisan chief; James B. Clay, son of Henry Clay;William Preston, former American minister to Spain; andmany others. The fall of Lexington, Missouri, caused great sorrow toUnionists, and General Fremont was publicly accused of inca-pacity. People said that he was responsible for the disasters atWilsons Creek and Lexington, because he might have preventedthem by sending reinforcements to Lyon and to Mulligan. It. 1861.] ZAGONYFS CHARGE. Hg was said also that he kept bad officers in command at St. Louis;that he lived there in great state, and with so much ceremonythat it was impossible for people to see him even on business;that he was extravagant in spending the public money, and thathe employed persons to write his praises in the friends denied these things, but whether they were true orfalse, they tended to weaken the confidence of both citizensand soldiers in him, and Fremont saw that it was necessary forhim to do something speedily to win back his reputation. Witha force of twenty thousand men, five thousand of whom werecavalry, and eighty-six pieces of artillery, he went, September27, by steamboat, to Jefferson City, which he thought wasthreatened by Price. But Price, satisfied with the capture ofLexington, moved again toward the southwest, and crossingthe Osage Kiver in flat-boats hastily made by his own men,marched to Neos
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