. The civil war on the border; . ill-ing and wounding their comrades, showed no dispositionto correct the false impression that had gone out in theexcitement of the moment. They seemed to think thatthe false account of the affair would help their causemore than the truth, and it was a pretext from which theeditors of the secession newspapers drew inspiration tofire the Southern heart. They characterized it as an out-rageous attack by the Federal power upon the peaceablecitizens of the State, and passionately appealed to allSouthern men to rally to arms and fight for Southernindependence. For s
. The civil war on the border; . ill-ing and wounding their comrades, showed no dispositionto correct the false impression that had gone out in theexcitement of the moment. They seemed to think thatthe false account of the affair would help their causemore than the truth, and it was a pretext from which theeditors of the secession newspapers drew inspiration tofire the Southern heart. They characterized it as an out-rageous attack by the Federal power upon the peaceablecitizens of the State, and passionately appealed to allSouthern men to rally to arms and fight for Southernindependence. For several days after the affair thosewho knew that the secessionists had fired upon them-selves by mistake were very cautious in making anystatement about it not in accord with the popular distorted account having been published far andwide over the State had the effect of arousing many totake up arms against the Government, who, had theybeen correctly informed, would probably have awaitedfurther developments of the CHAPTER IV. CAPTURE OF JEFFERSON CITY AND ACTION AT BOONVILLE. We may now leave St. Louis, as the military operationsof most exciting interest were, immediately after the con-ference between General Lyon and Governor Jackson,transferred to the interior of the State, to that romanticregion known as the Ozark Range. Even before GeneralHarney relinquished command the last time, he hadreceived information that Confederate troops were beingorganized and equipped in Northwestern Arkansas forservice in Missouri. And when General Lyon resumedcommand of the Department on the 1st of June, he alsoreceived information which plainly indicated that exten-sive preparations were being made for an early invasionof Missouri by Confederate troops from NorthwesternArkansas. Brigadier-General Ben. McCulloch, who hadrecently been promoted by the Confederate Governmentfrom the colonelcy of a Texas regiment on account ofthe conspicuous part he took in the capture of the Unite
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