Abraham Lincoln : a history : the full and authorized record of his private life and public career . forced ; by the middle of February the garrisonhad been increased to 488 regulars and the mean time local intrigue was active. Thesecessionists organized bodies of Minute mento capture it, while the Union men with equalalertness formed a safety committee, and com-panies of Home Gruards to join in its latter were largely drawn from the Germanpart of the city, to which the arsenal lay contigu-ous, and their guardianship over it was direct andeffective. Lincoln was inaugu
Abraham Lincoln : a history : the full and authorized record of his private life and public career . forced ; by the middle of February the garrisonhad been increased to 488 regulars and the mean time local intrigue was active. Thesecessionists organized bodies of Minute mento capture it, while the Union men with equalalertness formed a safety committee, and com-panies of Home Gruards to join in its latter were largely drawn from the Germanpart of the city, to which the arsenal lay contigu-ous, and their guardianship over it was direct andeffective. Lincoln was inaugurated, and making Mont-gomery Blair his postmaster-general and EdwardBates his attorney-general, Missouri had virtuallytwo representatives in the Cabinet. Francis , Jr., brother of Montgomery, therefore foundno great difficulty in having the command of thearsenal given to Captain Nathaniel Lyon, not onlya devoted soldier, but a man of thorough anti-slavery convictions. Lyon was eager to forestallthe secession conspiracy by extensive preparationand swift repression; but the department com-. GENERAL FRANCIS P. BLAIR, JR. MISSOUKI 209 mander, General William S. Harney, and the ord- chap, xlnance officer whom Lyon had displaced, both ofmore slow and cautious temper, and reflecting thelocal political conservatism, thwarted and ham-pered Lyon and Blair, who from the beginningacted in concert. No great difficulty grew out ofthis antagonism tiU. the Presidents call for troops;then it created discussion, delay, want of coopera-tion. Blair could not get his volunteers musteredinto service, and Governor Yates of Illinois couldget no arms. The President finally grew was relieved and called to Washington, andLyon directed to muster-in and arm the four Mis-souri regiments of volunteers with all expedition,and to send the extra arms to Springfield, Illinois,while three Illinois regiments were ordered to to assist in guarding the arsenal. These orders were issu
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