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6 unusual facts about Given Campbell


Given Campbell

Campbell entered the Confederate Army under General Sterling Price, and served through the war as a cavalryman under Generals Morgan, Forrest, and Wheeler.

When tension over secession increased, Campbell enlisted in the 2nd Regiment Missouri Volunteer Militia under Col. John S. Bowen.

Soon after leaving university he came to St. Louis to begin practicing law and was for a short time in the office of Charles D. Drake, later a U.S. Senator from Missouri, and he was admitted to the bar in 1856.

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.

Following Lee's surrender at Appomattox, Campbell was hand selected by President Jefferson Davis to lead Davis' escape and to choose a few members of Duke's Cavalry brigade to protect his person.

He found it impossible to practice law in Missouri because of the new "test oath" in the 1865 Drake constitution.



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