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2 unusual facts about Camp Jackson Affair


Camp Jackson Affair

On 13 February, Brigadier General Daniel M. Frost enrolled five companies of St. Louis-area Minutemen as a new Second Regiment of the Missouri Volunteer Militia.

The Camp Jackson Affair was an incident in the American Civil War on 10 May 1861, when Union military forces captured a force pro-secession state militia at Camp Jackson, just outside Saint Louis, Missouri, and subsequently clashed with pro-secession rioters in the city.


7th Missouri Volunteer Infantry

In addition, Irish Americans were strong participants in the pre-war Missouri Volunteer Militia, and many resented the May 10, 1861 Federal arrest of the Militia for suspected secession activity.

Given Campbell

In April 1861 Governor Claiborne Fox Jackson announced a state-wide militia muster for early May to gather for their yearly drill and training at a place just outside the city limits of Saint Louis located at Lindell's Grove ostensibly known as Camp Jackson.

Thomas Caute Reynolds

Following the Camp Jackson Affair, when Union military troops and civilians clashed over the arrest of the Missouri Volunteer Militia, Price, Jackson, and Reynolds met on May 14, 1861, to discuss strategy.


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