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The Daily Dispatch: may 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Further from St. Louis. (search)
Further from St. Louis. A telegraphic dispatch from St. Louis, May 14,says: The First Regiments of Volunteers of this State have been formed into the First Brigade of Missouri Volunteers. Capt. Lyon has been elected Brig. Gen'l Commanding, and has accepted the command by authority of the President. Emmet McDonald, Captain of the Mounted Rifles, has refused to swear allegiance to the United States, or accept his release on parole, and he is still confined at the Arsenal as a prisoner of war. An application has been made to Judge Treat, of the Circuit Court, for a writ of habeas corpus, and his decision is anxiously looked for. The following arms, in addition to those already enumerated, were seized at Camp Jackson: Three 32 pounders, a large quantity of balls and bombs, several pieces of artillery, twelve hundred rifles of the late model, six brass field-pieces, six brass six inch mortars, one ten-inch iron mortar, three six-inch iron cannon, several chests of new musk