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The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Portsmouth (search)
ith some thousand volunteers, surrounded it, and planted eight field pieces on the adjoining eminences. The following letter was sent from Captain Lyon to General Frost: "Headquarters of the U. S. Troops, St. Louis, May 10, 1861. "To General D. M. Frost.-- Sir: Your command is reported as evidently hostile towards General D. M. Frost.-- Sir: Your command is reported as evidently hostile towards the Government of the United States. It is for the most part made up of those secessionists who have openly avowed their hostility to the General Government, and have been plotting at the seizure of its property and overthrow of its authority. You are openly in communication with the so-called Southern Confederacy, which is at wa doing so will be allowed for your compliance there with. [Signed] N. Lyon, Captain Second Intantry. Commanding the Troops." It is understood that Gen. Frost says this letter was not received by him until his camp was surrounded by United States troops. He then replied that the encampment was organized under the law