The story of a great nationOr, Our country's achievements, military, naval, political, and civil . l of volunteers, was intrusted with full Governor Jackson called out fifty thousand men to repel inva-sion, and in a proclamation called on the people to resist the UnitedStates authority. The railroad bridges between St. Louis and Jeffer-son City were cut, and all preparations made to throw the State intothe hands of the Confederacy. Illinois, running down like a wedge between the doubtful States ofKentucky and Missouri, was intensely Republican. At the commence^ment of the troubles
The story of a great nationOr, Our country's achievements, military, naval, political, and civil . l of volunteers, was intrusted with full Governor Jackson called out fifty thousand men to repel inva-sion, and in a proclamation called on the people to resist the UnitedStates authority. The railroad bridges between St. Louis and Jeffer-son City were cut, and all preparations made to throw the State intothe hands of the Confederacy. Illinois, running down like a wedge between the doubtful States ofKentucky and Missouri, was intensely Republican. At the commence^ment of the troubles, she made Cairo, at the extreme southern point,her centre of operations, and, under directions from the War Depart-ment, occupied and fortified it. Such was the position of affairs in May. The two sections of thecountry were in arms, and the actual warfare might commence at anypoint along the line. General Scott, at Washington, was planning acampaign with all his long experience and ability, but he was sur-rounded by ofScers devoted to the South and all his plans were knowBalmost n o I w ? a: J o «inn ?n S^^. A. ^f/i-; fj^iX ^.1- -/^^Kr-^^ ,> .1^^,,
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