NiNi Harris
Author, Historian,
Your guide through the history of the Gateway City.
A Most Unsettled State
First-Person Accounts of St. Louis During the Civil War
Included:
The women who nursed the wounded soldiers, the ministers who were appalled by slavery, and Southern sympathizers whose resentment grew as the Union gained control of St. Louis. They filled their letters, sermons and memoirs with their feelings about what they saw in the streets of St. Louis during the Civil War. A Most Unsettled State features their words and their reactions from disturbing resentments, descriptions of political maneuverings, to moving commentaries on tragic scenes of freed slaves and of maimed soldiers.
The words of native St. Louisans Jesse Benton Fremont and Julia Dent Grant along with the pronouncements of the Chief of Police, the clerks, soldiers, and General William Tecumseh Sherman are included.
Sherman first saw action in the Civil War in the streets of St. Louis, as a civilian, with his seven year-old son Willie at his side. As Confederate sympathizing St. Louisans taunted German-St. Louisans in Union volunteer uniforms, gunfire erupted. Sherman and young Willie hugged the ground as bullets cut the leaves above their heads.
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