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John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Chapter 10: Missouri. (search)
Frost's military laurels having withered at Camp Jackson, the Governor made ex-Governor Sterling Price his generalin-chief. Price was less scrupulous in political strategy than Harney, and within a week he had entrapped the unwary Union commander into an agreement which tied up the Government forces in a role of mere idle lookers-on, while Governor Jackson's Missouri militia should without hinderance place the State in active insurrection. General Price, so ran the agreement, signed on May 21st, having by commission full authority over the militia of the State of Missouri, undertakes, with the sanction of the Governor of the State, already declared, to direct the whole power of the State officers to maintain order within the State among the people thereof; and General Harney publicly declares that, this object being thus assured, he can have no occasion, as he has no wish, to make military movements which might otherwise create excitements and jealousies, which he most earnestly d