Hey everyone, welcome to episode number 65 of our Civil War podcast.

I'm Rich.

And I'm Tracy. Hello y'all. Thanks for tuning into the podcast.

We ended last week's episode with the dramatic exit of Brigadier General Nathaniel Lion

from the Planner's House meeting in St. Louis on June 11th, 1861. The others at the

meeting, Congressman Frank Blair, Missouri State Guard Commander Sterling Price, Governor

Jackson, and Thomas Sneed, the Governor's Aid, they appeared stunned and troubled by Lion's

Declaration and abrupt departure. Sneed recalled that the others rose to go and

quote, Bade farewell to each other courteously and kindly and separated, Blair to fight

for the union, we for the land of our birth. End quote, Jackson and Price left St. Louis

immediately and returned to Jefferson City, the state capital. There, Jackson wasted no

time in issuing a proclamation, officially mobilizing the Missouri State Guard and informing

the people that quote, wicked and unprincipled men acting in the name of the U.S. government

had inflicted a series of unprovoked and unparalleled outrages and quote, upon Missouri. And

although the governor told the people that Missouri was still in the union, he reminded

them that quote, your first allegiance is to your state and quote, anticipating that

Lion would soon descend upon Jefferson City. Jackson, Price, and a few legislators prepared

to lead the state capital and go to Boonville, a town about 50 miles farther up the Missouri

River, where they would lead a pro-Confederate government in exile and rally the state guard.

Jackson and Price left the state capital none too soon. Within two days of the planner's

house meeting, Lion and his command of federalized home guardsmen and a few U.S. regulars

had left St. Louis and on June 15th, they peacefully occupied Jefferson City. When he found

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