. History of Missouri in words of one syllable . d step and in high glee to show his prizeto the Cap-tain and the troops. With songs of Un-ion joy they came back to theAr-se-nal to show Gen-er-al Ly-on some fif-ty pris- The Capture of the First Secession Flag. 159 on-ers they had brought with them, men who werecaught with sword and pis-tol not by their side, butwith lots of red-hot reb-el blood, the tone of whichmade the air ring with wild cries for Jeff Da-vis andse-ces-sion. The Boys in Blue in camp at the Ar-se~nal werefull of pa-tri-ot-ism and fight; but they had to waitthere for word to m
. History of Missouri in words of one syllable . d step and in high glee to show his prizeto the Cap-tain and the troops. With songs of Un-ion joy they came back to theAr-se-nal to show Gen-er-al Ly-on some fif-ty pris- The Capture of the First Secession Flag. 159 on-ers they had brought with them, men who werecaught with sword and pis-tol not by their side, butwith lots of red-hot reb-el blood, the tone of whichmade the air ring with wild cries for Jeff Da-vis andse-ces-sion. The Boys in Blue in camp at the Ar-se~nal werefull of pa-tri-ot-ism and fight; but they had to waitthere for word to march. And time hung long ontheir hands, so this prize of a reb-el flag was afine thing on which to vent some of the pent-up vimin their souls. That night, by the light of a bigcamp-fire, the first Con-fed-er-ate flag cap-tured bythe Un-ion troops was by some of those troops rentto shreds, while wild cheers for the Un-ion and thestars and stripes came from throats that soon had acall to give the warm blood to the last drop on thefield of ^^^ /z^.^^^^^^^^^j^^^-:^^ 160 General Fremont in Missouri. i6i CHAPTER XIX. GENERAL FREMONT IN MISSOURI. On the 13th of June Gen-er-al Ly-on and histroops set out for the field of war in Ches-ter Hard-ing was left in com-mand atSt. Lou-is. On the 26th of Ju-ly Gen. John C. Fre-montcame to take com-mand as chief of the De-part-mentof the West. Gen-er-al Fre-monts name will, insome sense, rank with that of the brave Al-ex-an-derSpots-wood of the old Col-on-ial days of Vir-gin-ia,who led the way to the heights of the Blue Ridge,where white mans foot had not trod, till he found apath. It was for deeds of pluck like this that Fre-mont made fame long ere the war of the States. Heled the way oer the wild, rude Rock-y Moun-tains,and got for it the proud name of The Path-finder. When Gen-er-al Fre-mont got to St. Lou-is hesought a good place for his head-quar-ters, and foundit at the cor-ner of Paul Street and Chau-teauAv-e-n
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