Anderson was a pastor in St. Louis when the war broke over Missouri, and he writes as an eyewitness of a city divided against itself. He covers the forebodings of 1860, the state convention that backfired on the secessionists, the struggle for the federal arsenal, the capture of Camp Jackson, martial law, and the daily business of permits and loyalty oaths.
A close, often wry account of how a border city held for the Union, valuable to students of the war in the West. Download the free EPUB.