Identifier: mississippivalle00fisk (find matches)
Title: The Mississippi Valley in the Civil War
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Fiske, John, 1842-1901
Subjects: Mississippi River Valley -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Southwest, Old -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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pursuit, and Price, with the forces gathered atLexington, set out by a converging route to jointhe governor. Meanwhile Blair had despatchedColonel Franz Sigel, a veteran of the Germanrevolution of 1849, from St. Louis, with 1500men, to intercept Jackson and attack him beforePrice could come to the rescue. On the 5th ofJuly Sigel met Jackson with 4000 men not farfrom Carthage. A fight ensued in which Sigel On reading these two paragraphs carefully, with especial refer-ence to the words which I have italicized, it appears that it is notthe governor but the proclamation that raises the secession flag ;and that, therefore, the phrase is metaphorical. The sense wouldhave been made clearer by omitting the superfluous comma after loyalty. I dare say it was this comma that turned my mindback to governor as the subject of raises. According to Mr. Miller, the State Guard, when commanded bySterling Price, carried the flag of Missouri, containing the statearms on a blue field with yellow fringe.
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From St. Louis to Belmont 25 for some hours had the advantage, but Jacksonssuperiority in cavalry enabled him to sigels fightthreaten Sigels baggage-train in his at Carthage.rear and thus compel him to retreat. During thenight Jackson was reinforced not onl)^ by Price,but also by several thousand troops from Arkan-sas, Texas, and Louisiana under the noted Texanranger, McCulloch. Sigels position thus becameperilous, but he effected his escape in a skilfulretreat which won him higher encomiums thanhis subsequent career ever justified; henceforth to fight mit Sigel became a favourite war-cry ofenthusiastic Germans throughout the country. On July 9 the incapable Fremont was appointedto command the Department of the West, withdisastrous results, the first of which fell upon thedevoted Lyon and his little army. When on the13th Lyon arrived at Springfield and joined hisforces to those of Sigel, it was found that theirunited strength was unequal to maintaining thatposition. The enemy, in retr

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