Ok, I originally thought that Missouri was in the North. Then I was corrected by John who said it was in the South. Well, here is a map that I got on the internet from a civil war site and it looks like Missouri is in the North. So now I am very confused. Anyway, here is a helpful Civil War map so that when we recreate this war you will know what side you are on. John... what's up?
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You're right, Nate -- it is confusing. Here are some facts I dug up ...
• Victories at Wilson's Creek and Lexington encouraged Gov. Claiborne F. Jackson to call a special legislative session in Neosho. The pro~Confederate politicians passed an Ordinance of Secession and the Confederate government recognized Missouri as the 12th Confederate state.
• During the same period, pro~Union Missouri legislators met in Jefferson City and declared the state's loyalty to the Union. Missouri now had two governments and representation in both the U.S. Congress and Confederate Congress.
• One of the 13 stars on the Confederate flag represented Missouri, this being because the Confederate States of America Congress admitted Missouri to membership on Nov. 28, 1861.
• What was the Missouri "Declaration of Independence"? Aug. 5, 1861, at New Madrid, Gov. Claiborne Jackson proclaimed "the political connection between the United States (and Missouri). . . totally dissolved."
• In the year 1860 there were 114,930 slaves (9.75 percent of the population) in Missouri.
• The name of the rebel general who never surrendered was Missouri's own Joseph 0. Shelby. He took part in much of the action West of the Mississippi. Refusing to surrender, he lead several people to Mexico. He did return later and rendered significant service after Pres. Cleveland appointed him U.S. Marshal for western Missouri.
Man, my state is confusing.
Missouri was a divided state during the Civil War. Some people were for the North, and some were for the South. Our relatives lived in Northeastern Missouri when the war broke out. Our great great grandfather, John Wesley Moore, was a Southerner. His wife, Eleanor Moore, was from a Northern family. Her family didn't seem to take kindly to him. Our great grandfather, Perry Moore, and his brothers fought for the South in the war. When the Civil War ended and the South won, the Southerner's pretty much had to leave Missouri or be persecuted by the winning Northerner's. That's when our family moved by wagon train to Montana - just a few days after Lincoln was assassinated. That's probably reiterating family history you've heard a million times. I just wanted to point out that you have a cool Moore state!
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Actually, I had never heard the history of our family in that kind of Cliff Notes way. That's a pretty good story.
I feel a little neglected in regard to this family history as I have never heard any of this information before. Umm, John, these would have made some great bedtime stories.
I heard a rummor that some great great uncles of ours were wounded in the war then nursed back to health at a near-by homestead, which turned out to be the residence of jessi james' parents? I'm pretty sure gramma told me that one time... maybe not though.
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