150 Years Ago: Lawmakers Arrive for a Special Session Called by Gov. Claiborne Fox Jackson

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JEFFERSON CITY -- Lawmakers were arriving for a special session called by Gov. Claiborne Fox Jackson to expand and reorganize the state militia.

Since lawmakers adjourned March 28, 1861, war had begun in Charleston, S.C., and Jackson had rejected President Abraham Lincoln's call for Missouri to provide troops to defend the Union. Secessionists were demanding Missouri immediately join the Confederacy, as Virginia had, while pro-slavery Unionists wanted a stand of "armed neutrality" for the state.

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150 Years Ago: Lawmakers Arrive for a Special Session Called by Gov. Claiborne Fox Jackson

The militia bill was one of Jackson's prime objectives during the reg...

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