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90. Duke, Civil War Reminiscences, p. 39.
91. William C. Winter, Civil War in St. Louis: A Guided Tour (St. Louis, 1994), pp. 31–32.
92. Peckham, Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, pp. 82–83; Winter, Civil War in St. Louis, p. 33; Duke, Civil War Reminiscences, p. 41.
93. Ryle, Missouri, p. 175; Journal of the Proceedings of the Missouri State Convention, Held at Jefferson City and St. Louis, March, 1861 (St. Louis, 1861), p. 244; Phillips, Damned Yankee, p. 148.
94. The full rationale is revealed in Duke’s Civil War Reminiscences, pp. 37–42. Duke was among the secessionist leaders inside the mansion.
95. Winter, Civil War in St. Louis, pp. 38–9; Gerteis, Civil War St. Louis, pp. 82ff.; Phillips, Damned Yankee, p. 138.
96. Phillips, Damned Yankee, pp. 88–89; Last Political Writings of Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, U.S.A. (New York, 1861), p. 192; Stephen B. Oates, “Nathaniel Lyon: A Personality Profile,” Civil War Illustrated, vol. 6, no. 10 (Feb. 1968), pp. 15ff.; Franklin A. Dick, “Memorandum of Matters in Missouri in 1861,” Franklin A. Dick Papers, LC.
97. William A. Hammond, “Brigadier-General Nathaniel Lyon, U.S.A.—Personal Recollections,” Magazine of American History, vol. 12, no. 3 (March 1885), pp. 240–48; Oates, “Nathaniel Lyon,” p. 15; Phillips, Damned Yankee, p. 133.
98. Gerteis, Civil War St. Louis, p. 87.
99. Frank P. Blair to Simon Cameron, Mar. 11, 1861; War Department Special Orders No. 74, Mar. 13, 1861; both in OR I, pp. 656–58; Missouri Democrat, Mar. 31, 1861.
100. Boernstein, Memoirs of a Nobody, pp. 268–72; Missouri Democrat, Apr. 15, 1861; Arenson, Great Heart, pp. 113–15.
101. Rowan and Primm, Germans for a Free Missouri, p. 179.
102. Phillips, Damned Yankee, pp. 132, 156; Gerteis, Civil War St. Louis, p. 93.
103. Mark Twain, “The Private History of a Campaign That Failed”; Susan Staker Lehr, ed., As the Mockingbird Sang: The Civil War Diary of Pvt. Robert Caldwell Dunlap, C.S.A. (St. Joseph, Mo., 2005), p. 19.
104. Susannah Ural Bruce, “ ‘Remember Your Country and Keep Its Credit’: Irish Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861–1865,” Journal of Military History, vol. 69, no. 2 (April 2005), pp. 332, 338; “Excerpts from The Autobiography of August Bondi (1833–1907),” Yearbook for German-American Studies, vol. 40 (2005), p. 152.
105. “Die Fahnenwacht” was also the title of a song popular during the 1848 revolution. It was sung at the flag presentation in St. Louis: “Der Sanger hält im Feld die Fahnenwacht, / Im seinem Arme ruht das Schwert, das scharfe” (“The singer is the color guard in the field, / In his arms rests the sword, the sharp sword”).
106. Engle, Yankee Dutchman, pp. 56–57; Westliche Post, May 8, 1861, in Rowan and Primm, Germans for a Free Missouri, pp. 195–7; Missouri Democrat, May 4, 1861.
107. Cyrus B. Plattenburg, “In St. Louis During the ‘Crisis,’ ” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, vol. 13, no. 1 (April 1920), p. 19.
108. Francis Preston Blair, Jr., to Simon Cameron, Apr. 18, 1861, Blair Family Papers, LC; Simon Cameron to Nathaniel Lyon, Apr. 30, 1861, OR I, vol. 1, p. 675.
109. Gerteis, Civil War St. Louis, p. 94; Peckham, Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, p. 139; Arenson, Great Heart, p. 114; Missouri Democrat, April 27, 1861; Boernstein, pp. 284–85; Winter, Civil War St. Louis, p. 40.
110. Phillips, Damned Yankee, pp. 166–67; Boernstein, Memoirs of a Nobody, pp. 286–88; Franklin A. Dick to Benson Lossing, July 6, 1865, Franklin A. Dick Papers, LC; Anderson, A Border City, pp. 78–79. About 5,000 of the guns soon ended up in the hands of Ohio state troops—thanks to the efforts of a newly appointed officer who was sent to procure them, Colonel James A. Garfield.
111. Sherman, Memoirs, vol. 1, p. 201.
112. Phillips, Damned Yankee, pp. 181–82.
113. Some later historians have questioned whether the story of Lyon’s cross-dressing mission was a myth, like similar stories of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis disguising themselves in women’s clothing at other