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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The first year of the War in Missouri. (search)
-looking; kindhearted, brave, and courteous; a thoughtful, earnest, upright man; a political leader, but not a soldier. The Governor urged the people of Missouri to elect to the Convention men who would place Missouri unequivocally on the side of the South. He was Map of operations in Missouri, 1861. disappointed. Francis P. Blair, Jr., banded together the unconditional Union men of the State; while the St. Louis Republican, Sterling Price, Hamilton R. Gamble, James S. Rollins, William A. Hall, and John B. Clark consolidated the conservatives, and together these elected on the 18th of February a Convention not one member of which would say that he was in favor of the secession of Missouri. To the courage, moderation, and tact of Francis P. Blair this result was greatly due. Blair was just forty years of age. His father, the trusted friend of Andrew Jackson, had taken him to Washington City when he was about seven years old, and there he had been bred in politics. In 184