10.Taylor, op. cit., 32-33. Anyone who wishes to study the charges and countercharges made by Wise and Floyd (and it is pretty difficult going) will find the dreary record in O.R., Vol. V, 146-49, 149-50, 150-65.
11.E. A. Pollard, The First Year of the War, 168. It is interesting to observe that civilian critics, in the North and South alike, grew impatient at any talk of strategy, feeling apparently that all a general needed was a taste for getting close to the enemy and slugging it out. This trait, incidentally, Lee had in full measure, but he had other assets which the civilian critics were slow to recognize.
12. Pollard, op. cit., 168.
13. Robert E. Lee, Recollections and
Letters of General Robert
E. Lee, 51.
14. John S. Wise, The End of an Era, 172.
15.Mulligan's account of all of this is in an article, The Siege of Lexington, adapted from a lecture he delivered during the war (he was killed in action in 1864) and printed in B. & L., Vol. I, 307-13. Price's report on the campaign is in O.R., Vol. Ill, 185-88. There is an engaging description of Mulligan and the siege in the History of Lafayette County, Missouri, by an unidentified author, 337-55. Being scrupulously honest, Price turned the captured money over to the banks from which it had been taken. It seems a pity; his army needed a war chest very badly.
16.Scott to Fremont, O.R., Vol. in, 185. Blair's criticism-voiced some time after the event—can be found in the Congressional Globe, 2nd Session, 37th Congress, Part U, 1121-22. A spirited reply to Blair by Schuyler Colfax, asserting that in mid-September Fremont had, in St. Louis, fewer than 8000 men, is in the same section of the Globe, 1128-29.
17.McElroy, The Struggle for Missouri, 192; John C. Moore, Missouri, in Confederate Military History, Vol. IX, 69.
18.New York Times for Nov. 4, 1861, printing a dispatch from Warsaw, Mo., dated Oct. 23.
19.O.R., Vol. IH, 196, 529-30; American Annual Cyclopaedia, 1861, 394; McElroy, op. cit., 187, 232-33, 235-36; Jay Monaghan, Civil War on the Western Border, 195-96; Harper's Weekly, Nov. 23, 1861, 738.
20.Letters of Mrs. Margaret J. Hays, written from Westport, Mo., in the fall of 1861 and the fall of 1862; in the Civil War Papers of the Missouri Historical Society.