Missouri’s German Unionists: From Defeat to Uncertain Victory Over Slavery

 

Slave auctions were held on the steps of the Court House in St. Louis before the Civil War, a source of resentment among the city’s Germans

 

When the Civil War began in April 1861, the Union’s most important resource for controlling the slave-state of Missouri was the large German community centered in St. Louis. Germans had formed their own clandestine pro-Unionist militias even before the war had begun and they had been in the forefront of Union military operations throughout 1861. Read more........

 

From the Long Island Wins Website