[o_zarkman44]

Captain Quantrill and Partisan Ranger Captain William Anderson were a huge part of the Confederate resistance in Missouri. Although Missouri never officially seceded, our governor, Claiborne Fox Jackson wished to remain neutral. When Lincoln called for the mobilization of 50,000 Missourians, Governor Jackson refused citing the mobilization was unconstitutional. After the refusal, Federal General Nathanial Lyon launched an attack on the Capitol Jefferson City. When the Governor and much of the legislature fled into exile, the federals imposed a new, unelected governor to run Missouri. The first year of the war Missouri had the most engagements of all states. And the war split the state in the middle with atrocities staged by the federals against civilians and soldiers alike. Captain William “Bloody Bill” Anderson became who he was because his brother was murdered in cold blood by federal troops. The combination of Anderson and Quantrill was in direct retaliation for the federal atrocities including General Order 11. if those protesters knew the real history behind those historic firearms they might have a change of heart.

[BroJoeK]

o_zarkman44: "When Lincoln called for the mobilization of 50,000 Missourians, Governor Jackson refused citing the mobilization was unconstitutional.
After the refusal, Federal General Nathanial Lyon launched an attack on the Capitol Jefferson City."

Important facts to remember about border-state Missouri in the Civil War:

1. In 1860, only slave-state Delaware had a lower percentage of slaves and slave owning families than Missouri.
   In 1860, slaves had declined to 10% of the population, and only 11% of Missouri families owned slaves.
   As a result, Missouri was strongly anti-slavery and pro-Union.

2. In the election of November 1860, 80% of Missourians voted for Unionist parties, only 20% for the secessionist Southern Democrats.

3. On February 18, 1861, at Missouri Governor Jackson's request, voters further elected a Constitutional Convention to consider the issue of secession.
   On March 19, 1861, the Missouri convention voted 98-1 against secession.

4. After Civil War started at Fort Sumter (April 12), Missouri Governor Jackson not only refused to support Lincoln's request for troops, but also requested military aid from the Confederacy.

5. After May 6, 1861, when the Confederacy formally declared war on the United States, then by definition of the US Constitution, Jackson's aid and comfort to the Confederacy was treason.
   Jackson was forced to flee the capital, Jefferson City.

6. On July 22, 1861, the Missouri Constitution Convention (not the Union Army) declared the governor's office vacant, and appointed a new governor.

7. Jackson's rump Assembly in Neosho, which formally declared secession in October 1861, consisted of about 25% of the original state assembly in Jefferson City.

8. During the Civil War, Missouri supplied troops to both Union and Confederacy, by a ratio of nearly three-to-one Union to Confederates.

1860 Missouri's high-slave (in red) vs. over 90% white (in green) populations: