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More Gold in Southeast Missouri
The February 4, 1862 issue of The Daily Missouri Democrat contains information about the discovery of gold in neighboring Madison County, Missouri.
My Appearance on the TBR History Hour
This week I sat down for an interview with Dr. Ed DeVries’ TBR History Hour to discuss my new book “The Rape of Delaware County.”
Hypocrisy of the New York Daily Herald
The December 31, 1862 edition of the New York Daily Herald contained much information about the situation in Missouri. Among the reports of guerrilla warfare activities and false reports that the Confederates had retaken Columbus, Kentucky is a report of a minister at a St. Louis Church who was expelled for claiming he was “neutral” on the issue of the war.
About Those Official Numbers
Most “official” sources claim that 110,000 Missouri men fought for the Union and some 30,000 fought for the Confederacy. I’ve always questioned these figures for several reason: 1: Does this number include Union soldiers from neighboring states whose units were designated as “Missouri” units? 2: Does this number include the number of Missouri men whoContinue reading “About Those Official Numbers”
How To Cover Up War Crimes: Governor Fletcher Vacated All Positions of Law and Order.
“The State Convention passed an ordinance today, vacating all offices of Circuit Judges, Circuit Attorneys, Criminal Judges, Sheriffs, Probate Judges, and clerks, and All Courts of Record, from and after May 1’st, by a vote of forty-three to five. The offices are all to be filled by the Governor. By this ordinance, eight-hundred offices eight hundred offices are made vacant at one blow. Governor Fletcher promises to reappoint all the loyal men, elected by the people, the object being to get rid of the disloyal.”
More on Will Mayfield College
“Due to hard times in the Mississippi Valley the Will Mayfield College of Marble Hill, Missouri had some hard struggles this last year and there was some doubt in the minds of many as to the future of Will Mayfield.”
More Murder in Bollinger County, Missouri
According to the paper, a man by the last name of Salisbury had went to another farmer’s residence and “cooly called him out”, informing him that he was going to kill him. Salisbury shot the farmer in the leg, demanded he stand back up and delivered a second fatal shot.
The Last of the Moonshiners
The July 13, 1878 St. Louis Globe-Democrat published an article entitled “The Last of the Moonshiners” about John Bollinger, a moonshiner who was over 70 years of age. Bollinger might have been in “advanced age” as the paper describes him, but he still had plenty of fight left in him.
More Post-War Lawlessness in Bollinger County, Missouri
In post-war Bollinger County, Missouri lawlessness prevailed. It seems with little opportunity many turned to distilling corn liquor or “moonshine”. Before the war it was not illegal to do so but after the war it was considered to be against the law due to the fact that the government did not get “its share” through taxation.
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