The Story of a Border City During the Civil War

Galusha Anderson was a Baptist preacher in St. Louis. He was pro-Union, but tried to make his book non-partisan. Bitterness and paranoia ran high in this community of the loyal and the disloyal - he had both kinds of people in his congregation. He discusses the ways people used to think and act. The role of the press in fomenting or calming dissension. The raid on Camp Jackson and its tragic aftermath. The fight for the arsenal. Slavery and slave pens. A slave auction disrupted by public protest