McCulloch: "Let Missouri choose her destiny"
- After Federal forces under Gen.
Nathaniel Lyon have chased the pro-secession Missouri State Guard, its
commander, Gen. Sterling Price, and its duly elected Governor Claiborne
Fox Jackson, out of the state capital at Jefferson City and nearly out of
the state. At last, at Wilson’s Creek near Springfield, reinforced by
Confederate General Benjamin McCulloch’s Western Army composed of
Arkansans and Cherokees, they had made a stand, and now Lyon is dead and
the Federals in retreat. Gen. Ben McCulloch, today gives Missouri citizens
an ultimatum: it is time to take sides. Unlike Lyon and the Federals,
McCulloch promises protection to Union sympathizers, but “Missouri must be
allowed to choose her own destiny.”/1861
- At Washington, by proclamation,
President Lincoln appoints the "last Thursday in September next, as a
day of humiliation, prayer and fasting for all the people of the
nation." In a recess appointment, Lincoln reappoints William S. Wood,
who had charge of the special train that brought Lincoln to Washington for
his inauguration, as commissioner of public buildings, as the Senate
failed to act on his appointment before adjourning. /1861
- US Navy Commander J. Rodgers
arrives with gunboats USS Tyler,
Lexington, and Conestoga, at Cairo, Illinois, to
protect the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and to guard
against Confederate movements./1861
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