Talk:Claiborne Fox Jackson

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I'm adding information I obtained from http://www.nps.gov/peri/jackson.htm. The content there was created by US Government employees as part of their official duties, so is Public domain. Kenj0418 08:15, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)

I'm doing a major revision using Thomas Snead's The Fight for Missouri as a primary source for correcting some massive errors about the governor's statements and positions as well as events. Unfortunatley, I lost two massive edits and will have to start again.

There is some heavily Southern perspective (well beyond that of Snead who was a period secessionist and worked for Jackson) of events in the previous draft that I will be addressing to neutralize the article, and correct a mangled timeline, for instance:

1. Contrary to the original wording the St. Louis Arsenal was a United States Arsenal. There was therefore no need for U.S. officers to "seize" their own arsenal as it was already in their hands. Lyon did make it more secure, despite the objections of his superiors in St. Louis.

2. Analysis by Dr. Randy R. McGuire indicates that the number of weapons is overstated by many contemporaries and as stated here. See http://www.civilwarstlouis.com/arsenal/index.htm

3. The arms shipment by the CSA to the militia at Camp Jackson was not "alleged." There is correspondence from both sides confirming this, and the arms were actually seized by Lyon's men. (April 17th Jackson's request, April 23rd Davis' response.)

4. The MSG was still referred to as "militia" until Jackson's new Military Bill was passed after the St. Louis Riot/Massacre/Camp Jackson Affair. The organization was renamed by the legislation.

5. Although the great majority of the Union volunteers involved in the Camp Jackson affair were German, not all were (this is evident from the muster rolls and census data.)

6. The riot started before any shooting by the soldiers occurred. The previous wording makes it sound as if the soldiers just merrily began killing militia and civilians for sport and a riot resulted.

7. Price was not offered his commission until May 12.

8. The Price-Harney meeting occurred on May 20.

9. Again contrary to original tone and wording of the article, the State Convention (under Price, no less) had orginially rejected secession on March 9, 1861 by 98 to 1. Red Harvest (talk) 04:36, 27 November 2007 (UTC)