Requests that Lincoln appoint Frank P. Blair, Jr. as major general of volunteers. Transcription: Jefferson City Mo To his Excellency Abraham Lincoln President of the United States We members of the General Assembly of the State of Missouri which body is now in session, and representing as we do the Union men of the State respectfully memorealize you to confer on Gen Frank P. Blair now serving in the army before Vicksburg the rank of Major General of Volunteers irrespective of the claims or pretentions of others Our reasons for thus addressing you, may be briefly stated as follows ? To Gen Bl
Requests that Lincoln appoint Frank P. Blair, Jr. as major general of volunteers. Transcription: Jefferson City Mo To his Excellency Abraham Lincoln President of the United States We members of the General Assembly of the State of Missouri which body is now in session, and representing as we do the Union men of the State respectfully memorealize you to confer on Gen Frank P. Blair now serving in the army before Vicksburg the rank of Major General of Volunteers irrespective of the claims or pretentions of others Our reasons for thus addressing you, may be briefly stated as follows ? To Gen Blair more than any other living man, must in our opinion be awarded the merit of converting Missouri into a thoroughly loyal State Before your inauguration but when the signs of commotion and civil war, were perceptible in the political horizon he sounded the alarm, set the Union movement afoot and commenced the work of organization in St Louis, to counteract and overcome the secession projects of the state government and Legislature. He warned the leading Union men throughout the state of the coming danger, urging them to resist it and advising them how to do it successfully. In the darkest hours of the crisis, he inspired public sentiment with his own high resolve, and informed it at the same time of the true nature of the terrible calamity impending laboring day and night to that end, and with all classes of Union men, bitter political opponants included. The early organizations which he created between the dates of your election and inauguration were the nuclei of Missouri ?s splendid contingent of the national army. They ripened first into the Home Guards. the exploits of which under Gen Lyon and himself in the capture of Camp Jackson. the expulsion of a traitorous Executive and Legislature from this city which is the seat of Government, and the victory of Boonville[Booneville] will always attest the merits that force and shed lustre on the Union cause. The Missouri volunte
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