| Date |
Excerpt |
| August 1860 |
State Administration elected. |
| May 10, 1861 |
State General Assembly passed "Rebellion Act" granting sweeping powers, but the act was considered of doubtful validity. |
| May 14, 1861 |
Missouri
General Sterling Price and Federal General William S. Harney signed an
agreement that no more Federal trops would enter the state and that Gen.
Price's State Guard would maintain peace in Missouri and resist any
Confederate move into Missouri; [that was] Governor Jackson's strategy
to gain time to arm the state. President Jefferson Davis considered the
Price-Harney Agreement a complete break of faith, but Gov. Jackson
convinced Pres. Davis of his loyalty to the South. The presence of
Secretary of Stae Benjamin Franklin Massey was unknown, but State
Treasurer Alfred W. Morrison had been captured on June 18, was sent to
Jefferson City, but was released when it was found that he had no money. |
| June 7, 1861 |
Battle of Boonville. Gov. Claiborne F. Jackson and the Missouri State Guard troops retreated to southwest Missouri, hoping to join Gen. Ben. McCullough of the Confederate forces. Gen. Sterling price left Lexington, Missouri, also to join Gen. McCullough |
| June 18, 1861 |
Missouri
Attorney General J. Proctor Knott, still at Jefferson City, refused to
take the Oath of Allegiance to the United States and was taken prisoner. |
| July 5, 1861 |
Near Carthage, Missouri: Gov. Jackson defeated a Federal force under Col. Franz Sigal. |
| July 6, 1861 |
At
Coonskin Prairie, McDonald County, Missouri, the State Guard spent six
weeks training to take the field against Federal Gen. Nathaniel Lyons. |
| July 12, 1861 |
Gov. Jackson went to Richmond, Virginia, hoping for financial and military aid from the Confederate Government. |
| July 19, 1861 |
At Little Rock Arkansas, Gov. Jackson was officially welcomed by Gov. Henry Restor. |
| July 22, 1861 |
At
Memphis, Tennessee, Confederate Gen. Leonidas Polk agreed to send
Confederate Gen. Gibson Pillow into Missouri via New Madrid if Gov.
Jackson would accompany Gen. Pillow's forces. |
| July 28, 1861 |
Gen
Pillow's "Army of Liberation" occupied New Madrid, but Gov. Jackson was
in Richmond, hoping to assure Missouri's future welfare & position
in the Confederacy. Gov. Jackson met President Jefferson Davis and was assured of continued military aid, plus financial aid when it became authorized by the Confederate Congress. |
| July, 1861 |
The State Government, elected in 1860, was outlawed by a State Convention and became the "Rebel Fugitive Government." |
| July 31, 1861 |
Lt. Gov. Reynolds and Gov. Jackson were both in Missouri at this time, but apparently never met, and Reynolds countermanded orders already issued by Jackson to Gen. Jeff M. Thomson, signing himself, "Acting Governor of Missouri." |
| August 8, 1861 |
The
Confederate Congress had appropriated one million dollars for the use
of Missouri troops copperating with Confederate troops, and Gov. Jackson
arranged with Gen. Polk in Memphis to requisition supplies for the Missouri State Guard. |
| August 10, 1861 |
Gen. Price, helped by Gen. McCullough, defeated Gen. Lyon at Wilson's Creek. |
| August 13, 1861 |
Gov. Jackson left for Gen. Price's camp at Springfield, Virginia. |
| August 15, 1861 |
Gov. Jackson & Gen. Price met near the Missouri River. |
| August 20, 1861 |
The
Confederate Congress authorized negotiation for a treaty with Missouri,
and it provided for Missouri's admission as a Confederate State - Gov.
Jackson's Government was specifically recognized as "the legally elected
and regularly constituted government of the People and State of
Missouri." |
| September 12, 1861 |
Missouri troops score victory at the Battle of Lexington, Missouri. |
| September 18, 1861 |
Gov. Jackson issued a Proclamation, calling the Missouri General Assembly to meet in a Special Session at Neosho, Misssouri on October 21, 1861. Gov. Jackson also commissioned E. Carrington Cobell and Thomas L. Snead to negotiate an offensive -defensive treaty of alliance with the Confederacy, and sent them to Richmond, Virginia. |
| October 21, 1861 |
The Special Session of ther General Assembly convened at Neosho, Missouri. |
| October 28, 1861 |
The General Assembly passed an "Ordinance of Secession" and an act ratifying the Provisional Confederate Contsitution. |
| October 29, 1861 |
The General Assembly adjourned to meet at the Cassville, Missouri Court House. |
| October 31, 1861 |
The General Assembly convened at Cassville and passed Acts: Appropriating One Million Dollars to "Repel Invasion and Maintain the Integrity of the State," Authorizing issuance of Ten Million Dollars in State Defense Bonds, and Choosing delegates to the Confederate Congress. |
| November 7, 1861 |
The General Assembly adjourned, resolving to meet at New Madrid on the first Monday in March, 1862. |
| November 28, 1861 |
Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy on the strength of the Acts of the General Assembly on October 28, 1861, which may have been illegal. |
| Mid-December, 1861 |
Gov. Jackson remained in New Madrid with General Thompson, helping to organize additional State Guard Companies. |
| December 13, 1861 |
Gov. Jackson went to memphis to see Gen. Albert S. Johnston and the ... to New Orleans. |
| January 1, 1862 |
At New Orleans, Gov. Jackson arranged for the printing of the Defense Bonds. |
| January 11, 1862 |
Gov.
Jackson and Gen. Thompson left New Orleans for Missouri with the
supplies, guns, the ten Million in Bonds, and presumablythe sword for
gen. price. |
| January 27, 1862 |
The
Confederate congress directed the Confederate Secretary of the Treasury
to advance to the State of Missouri Ten Million Dollars to pay their
troops. Missouri was to deposit an equal amount in State Bonds to
the Confederate Treasury until official settlement ws made between the
two Governments. |
| February 15,, 1862 |
The Confederate Congress made a second ten Million Dollars available to Missouri, on the same terms. |
| March 7, 1862 |
Gov. Jackson & Gen. Sterling Price were defeated at the Battle of pea Ridge, Arkansas. Gov. Jackson & Gen. Price had been requested by the Confederate Secretary of War, Judah P. Benjamin, to reorganize as a part of the Confederate Army. This Missouri Division, consisting of two Infantry Regiments, one Cavalry Regiment, and two Light Batteries, was sent East of the Mississippi, and Gov. Jackson remained with the remnants of the State Guard under Gen. M.M. Parsons. |
| Early 1862 |
They returned to Arkansas after fighting in the Battle of Corinth. A meeting of the General Assembly had been scheduled for March 3, 1862 at Cassville, and then again at Caruthersville, but Gen. price wrote Gov. Jackson that the Federal troops were so close as to make these meetings hazardous, and so they were not held. |
| 1862 |
Some time in 1862, Gov. Jackson purchased a home in Texas and moved his family there, perhaps in Red River Country. Evidence is against the belief that Gov. Jackson set up a temporary Missouri State Capital in Marshall, Texas, but more likely that it was in Camden or in Little Rock, Arkansas. |
| July, 1862 |
Gov.
Jackson was in Marshall, Texas in conference with the the Governors of
Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas to consider uniting the resources and
energies of the four states. |
| Early September, 1862 |
After six weeks with his family in
Marshall, Gov. Jackson left for Little Rock to help draw up plans for a
campaign to be launched into Missouri in the Fall or Winter. |
| November 1, 1862 |
Gov. Jackson had suffered from cancer for some years, made his Will, and summoned his family from Texas. |
| December 7, 1862 |
Gov. Jackson diede and was buried in Mount Holly Cemetary in Little Rock. Lt. Gov. Thomas C, Reynolds became Head of the Missouri Refugee Government. |
| January, 1863 |
The new Gov. Reynolds conferred in Richmond with Pres. Davis. |
| March, 1863 |
Gov. Reynolds interviewed Missouri troops in Mississippi and conferred with Gen. E. Kirby Smith in Shreveport. Gov. Reynolds planned to re-establish the State Government at Little Rock, but found most of the records in Camden, and decided temporarily to establish the Capital there, away from Little Rock confusion. Gov. Reynolds summoned the State officials and went to work on the State's problems. Finances were a very pressing problem; two million dollars of claims were officially recognized, and only a small fraction covered by Confederate Notes in the Treasury. Priority systems were set up, with first priority going to private ... Funds were expected from the Confederate Government, official bills for military expenses. |
| March, 27, 1863 |
Gov. Reynolds moved the Missouri Capital to Little Rock. |
| July, 1863 |
Vicksburg
and Port ... fell, the entire Mississippi River was under federal
control, and the Confederacy was split in two, leaving Texas, Arkansas,
Missouri, most of Louisiana and the Indian Territory isolated from the
Governments and armies east of the Mississippi River. Pres. Davis suggested that Gen. Smith help make the West self-sufficient to present their secession from the Confederacy and carry on the War until the Mississippi River could be re-taken. |
| August 15 - 18, 1863 |
Gen.
Smith called the four Governors to confer at Marshall, Texas, and they
set up a State capital in the home of Judge Rea Willen, then he rented
the home of Mary Key for the Governor's residence. |
| 1864 |
Gov.
Reynolds & Gen. Sterling Price headed an ill-fated campaign, hoping
to be ... in Jefferson City, Missouri, but the large Federal garrison
made this impossible. |
| October 23, 1864 |
After the Battle of Westport, Gov. Reynolds returned to Marshall, texas. |
| May, 1865 |
After
a conference called by Gen. Smith to consider further resistance, Gen.
Smith surrendered his command, and the last organized Confedeerate
troops laid down their arms. |
| 1865 |
Gov. Reynolds crossed into Mexico, determined to live there in exile. |
| Spring, 1868 |
Gov. Reynolds returned to St. Louis, Missouri to practice law. |
| May 26, 1869 |
Gov.
Reynolds returned to Governor McClug the Great Seal of Missouri, taken
from Jefferson City in 1861, and in his possession since 1863. |